BLHEG 2016

[Leena]

Thank you Josh, that was just the information I was after. 
Also I like plicatus more than elwesii.

[Palustris]

Fred's Giant measure like the Glenorma image is 45mm too. No picture as of yet.

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Palustris,
   Thanks for measuring the petals on  Fred's Giant.. I've added it to the list.. Do you have a height for it?

Hi Josh,
   Thanks for the figures for Two Eyes and Rev Hailstone.. Do you think we should change the 'time of measurement'?
   This year I suggested 'one week after first opening', partly because I'm no fan of wasp like flowers! However later measurements are certainly bigger, so in the interests of objectivity (a 'level playing field') should we specify 'just before going over' figures? (!)

Apart from that… here is my last entry in the category for this year:
PHD 33643… 38mm 24cm… This cultivar has gone from 1 flower in its first year to 15 in its third year.

Tim DH

[Palustris]

Sorry Tim, not yet, am housebound for the foreseeable future. but I will go and measure if it survives the gales, when my foot is healed.

[Maggi Young]

Eric-  with the weather around this must be the "best" time to be housebound- you 're missing very little, I expect!  Take  care and get well soon!

[David Nicholson]

Yes, all the best Eric. My only excuse is the weather.

[Palustris]

As requested Fred's Giant with tape measure. The flower has now increased to 50mm.Height about 250mm.

[David Nicholson]

Hope you didn't go out and measure that Eric?

[Palustris]

First time the wind has not been so strong that it flattened the plants. Yes, 'twas me, slippered foot carefully placed on the ground.

[Josh Nelson]

As requested Fred's Giant with tape measure. The flower has now increased to 50mm.Height about 250mm.

is that 50mm with the ovary or just the outers?

[Palustris]

With the ovaries. Sorry should have made that clear. Bit difficult to measure now as the flowers are wide open.

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Palustris,

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Palustris,
   Thanks for the height measurement.

   Apart from that. Here is Bertram Anderson, a fortnight after I first posted it, and (IMHO) just about to go over. It has now stretched its petals to 44mm. In the process BA has out run PHD, which has only got to 42mm. Perhaps I should include a column for terminal petal length?

Tim DH

[Josh Nelson]

A few more measurements (generally just outer length as I forgot to measure height - I will try to do this where they don't look to have gone over too much):
PHD33643               38mm
GC2 (Glen Chantry)  41mm
Hercule                    41mm
Long Wasp               39mm
Gemini ex PC            40mm    h 28.5 cm to top flower, 30 to spathe tip
Walker Canada         38mm
Gravity                    45mm

[Maggi Young]

This is an un-named variety shown on Facebook - but it fills the brief, I reckon.....



 a true giant snowdrop  - shown by Blumenhof Fachsain