Galanthus in February 2018

[David Lowndes]

Found this lovely double today and it's absolutely huge! Measuring in at 60mm across.

I don’t know much about doubles but this looks interesting Shauney.

[annew]

I saw several populations of Galanthus alpinus in Turkey last year.  The ones growing in an alpine meadow were quite small but we saw some larger ones amongst trees on a steep bank by the roadside.  So although the ones you have are tiny and cute, that's probably not representative of the species as a whole.

Mine are tiny too!

[annew]

Another tiddler - Galanthus angustifolius

[annew]

Some interesting ipoc seedlings in flower today, the first ones with flipped up edges to the outers, and a face with a nose as well as eyes!

[annew]

G. Phil Cornish - new to me, and a very nice plicatus from Taavi Tuulik with very long outer segments. Very elegant.
Also a more heavily green seedling, with a Phil Cornish lookalike.

[Alan_b]

Olive Mason (at least I think it was her) was selling Trym seedling at £5 each on the Members' Sales Table at the HPS event.  I only saw the last ones, which weren't as distinguished as the ones in Anne's photos.  And I bought Galanthus 'Spotty Muldoon' from amongst the plants offered by Phil Cornish.  That's one that possibly hasn't yet made the National Collections.

Later in the day I encountered a whole clump of 'Phil Cornish'.





   

[Shauney]

Some interesting ipoc seedlings in flower today, the first ones with flipped up edges to the outers, and a face with a nose as well as eyes!

Love the one with the nose 😁

[Alan_b]

The MacLennans put on another display table at the HPS event.  I was particularly impressed by a pot of 'Miss Adventure'.  I don't think I had ever seen more than one at a time hitherto and I hadn't taken-in quite how weird it is.

     

[Alan_b]

... and a face with a nose as well as eyes!

Could it be this fellow?

[Shauney]

I don’t know much about doubles but this looks interesting Shauney.

When I saw It I thought WOW! It stuck out like a sore thumb from all the other drops around. I can find a fair bit of info about flower size in single drops but i can't find much info on flower size for doubles! Does anyone know what the largest double is?

[Shauney]

Could it be this fellow?

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Alan that's exactly the first thing that I thought of 😊

[Gert G.]

Still coming more: two findlings of this spring. First a elwesii nivalis hybrid, the second a elwesii.

[Mariette]

The G. elwesii looks really special with marks on tips and shoulders!

[ielaba2011]

Thank you for your answer Harald.
I see myself already as some sort of frustrated Galanthomane/Galantophile, but unfortunatly I live in a mediterranean country and I'm not completey sure if Galanthus can be happy in here. I belive that you should grow the right plant for the right place, even though I had some success with this first bulbs, I'm still a bit sceptic about whether it is hardy to zone 9 with hot summers. Let's see what future brings to this this first clump, only then I can dream about all those fancy and beautiful varieties you guys show in here. I loved  "South Hayes", those flowers are perfect! <33
Thank you, Greetings from Lisbon!

Hallo Ielaba,
your snowdropflower is the first step to become a "galanthomane"! :-)
I got last week a paket with snowdrop-varieties in the green from "Harveys Garden Plants" and they came good here. So I got "John Grey" with big flowers and "South Hayes" with the special outhergreen flower. I think, they develop in my garden well and flower next year again! Greetings from Germany - Harald

[Rick Goodenough]

Gert,

My oh my...both are very nice. Congratulations! I should be so lucky. 

Rick