Galanthus in January 2017

[Matt T]

By chance my copy has just arrived today! I've only had a quick flick through, but am excited to get into it in detail. It looks, great - handy size, great production quality, lot of photos and images of snowdrops in art. I'm looking forward to reading about the wider aspects of these plants.

[Brian Ellis]

Well at last (and serendipitously) it got to the top of my must read pile!  What a super compilation Gail, I thoroughly enjoyed it and will lug it about with me for when we next meet

[annew]

It just went on my birthday list!
Some of the ipoc seedlings are starting to flower.
The first 2 are Trimmer x South Hayes. This cross has produced some very nice seedlings. The top one is to be called Dryad Artemis.
The third is Ex Trimmer, open pollinated. I like the echo on this one! Hope it's stable.

[Mariette]

The second one is my favourite, Anne! It looks so dainty with just a bold stripe on the tips.

[Alan_b]

The third is Ex Trimmer, open pollinated. I like the echo on this one! Hope it's stable.

Dryad 'Cyclops'?

[Alan_b]

Galanthus 'Sheds and Outhouses'



I first came across this snowddrop here, http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8037.msg220458#msg220458 and purchased one last year from Harvey's Garden Plants - but it had finished flowering by the time I got it so this is the first time I have had it in flower.  It's so obscure that even Freda Cox overlooks this one; I have no idea where it originated.  Is the name an allusion to 'Barnes' by somebody who did not distinguish between barns and Barnes?  If anyone knows the answers to these questions I would be very interested.   

[Brian Ellis]

Dryad 'Cyclops'?

I believe Richard Bashford has a lovely snowdrop called 'Cyclops'

[Brian Ellis]

Galanthus 'Sheds and Outhouses'
It's so obscure that even Freda Cox overlooks this one; I have no idea where it originated.  Is the name an allusion to 'Barnes' by somebody who did not distinguish between barns and Barnes?  If anyone knows the answers to these questions I would be very interested.   

I believe it is one of Jorg Lebsa's - and not at all obscure. No doubt he and Matt were having a laugh with the name.

[Alan_b]

Thank you, Brian.  Perhaps 'Sheds and Outhouses' is a forerunner to the much greener 'York Minster'?  Both flower at a similar time.  'Sheds and Outhouses' is too new to feature in 'Snowdrops ..' so I tried Freda Cox's book but the name was not there either, even though she lists many others that I had never heard of hitherto.  I have never seen it offered for sale except by Roger Harvey, who had it for sale last year and this (although the name got garbled this year).  Maybe up-and-coming is a more apt description than 'obscure'?

[chasw]

A couple from a very frosty garden this morning

Magdelaine Erskine .....just recovering,and Miss Willmott with three spathes,apologies for poor pictures

[David Nicholson]

A few from my small collection.

Galanthus 'Galatea' I think I got a few bulbs a couple of years ago from the Member's Plant Stall at a local AGS group meeting. It's done well without my knowing underneath a rampant hybrid Daphne that I pruned last year.
G. 'Lady Beatrix Stanley' I can't really remember but think this may have come from Anne Wright some years ago, or it was possible from Art?
G. S. Arnott. possibly from Mike Quest

[Ru]

G. alpinus
2016y & 2017y (greenhouse)

[Ru]

G. alpinus
All the tint-drops (and pink and apricot ...) are one and the same gene. The same mutation. They're all relatives. One "mutation nest". One "inbreeding core". I do not know why different shades. I see that the pigment has a different distribution on the petal. Hybridological analysis can provide answers. Let's wait for F2.

[johnw]

Anne  - Time to pull out a copy of Bullfinch and have a field day.


john

[Ru]

'Alpha Sassoon' (PP-S-15-1948)