Yellow Snowdrops

[emma T]

Twilight looks great in the photo

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks Emma, unfortunately it did not like being dug up last year for a swap at all and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I still have one.

[Mariette]

A wonderful  idea to list and show all the yellows, Brian!

Are ´Audrey Vockins´and ´Günter´s Geist´considered to be different clones? Once they were suspected to be the same, I think.

[Brian Ellis]

Yes, I think you are correct Mariette, will indicate this.

[Mariette]

´Feodora´by Nicolas Top may be added, it´s still grown by some collectors in Germany and quite nice.

[Brian Ellis]

Excellent, thank you Mariette. 

I realise that this list actually contains several types of snowdrop, the Yellows, the GRYMs (Green receptacle yellow mark) - my favourite group, the Ethereal - very pale like the 'Estonian Spirit' group, changelings such as Schorbuser Irrlicht which becomes more yellow as the season progresses and those which are 'tinted' such as 'Anglesey Aurora' which have another tint. I will have a think and try and put the ones I know into a sub-section later on.

[emma T]

Thanks Emma, unfortunately it did not like being dug up last year for a swap at all and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I still have one.

I'm hoping to grab a twilight at Myddleton

[Brian Ellis]

I'm hoping to grab a twilight at Myddleton

Nothing like a grab in the twilight Em 

[emma T]

Haha  I don't intend to start queuing at twilight for Myddleton!

[Brian Ellis]

Some pictures from Hagen - many thanks:  'Chadwick's Cream' (on the right), 'Das Gelbe vom Ei', 'Golden Chalice'

[Brian Ellis]

...and some more. 'Ilse Bilse', 'Schorbuser Irrlicht' and 'Schorbuser Lampion' - now added to list.

[Maggi Young]

Must say that the pix of Hagen's yellows and those of Anne W have changed my mind about yellows. Anne's are robust little chaps, and I hope one day to be able to have  them in the garden. Otherwise I'm still thinking about a lottery ticket!

Before Anne's yellows  and the beautiful Elizabeth Harrison, the few  yellows tried  have proved  very  feeble here.

[Blonde Ingrid]

Before Anne's yellows  and the beautiful Elizabeth Harrison, the few  yellows tried  have proved  very  feeble here.

You can rely on Anne's yellows Maggi, very robust, some others are unreliable in terms of colour and robustness!

[Brian Ellis]

Perhaps it would be wise to quote Gunter Waldorf in this thread for the inexperienced grower of yellows.  He  writes in his book ‘Snowdrops’ when describing some of the yellow varieties, that ‘the colour becomes more intense in its second year after planting in situ’.  It follows that some varieties would need to settle down again once replanted from splitting/moving/swapping which goes for lots of the snowdrops which have unusual marking.

[Brian Ellis]

I'll plough on with some more pictures of GRYM snowdrops. 'Anita' and 'Chameleon' - well named for, as it ages it changes colour as you can see in the second picture.