April 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere

[kris]

Hi Kris,

I am so pleased that the snowdrops have survived.

Woronowii has broad bright green leaves.

Elwesii has broad grayish green leaves and the tips are pinched together.

Nivalis  has narrower grayish green leaves.  I think the ones I sent you have double flowers.

Thanks Diane

[kris]

G.elwesii has two green markings in the inner of the flower (that is what made me think they are G.elwesii), I don't think G.woronowii ever does. And the leaves are different like Diane wrote.
Whatever you have, it is so good that they have survived your winters and bring you white early flowers:).

Leena like you said the flower has 2 inner markings and as Diane said the leaves are broader.  May be a hybrid? Like Leena said it is lovely and the flowers are larger. Growing snow drops in Saskatoon is challenging. I am happy they survived our winter. Thanks again Diane

[Gabriela]

Leena like you said the flower has 2 inner markings and as Diane said the leaves are broader.  May be a hybrid? Like Leena said it is lovely and the flowers are larger. Growing snow drops in Saskatoon is challenging. I am happy they survived our winter. Thanks again Diane

Glad to see that spring has also arrived in SK Kris, the image with Colchicum vernum is superb.

The snowdrops we can buy here in Canada are most often marked G. elwesii, G. woronowii or G. nivalis. But of course, some packets have mixed species. I am not a Galanthus connoisseur, just happy with all of them that grow and establish well here. I noticed they do better in locations where the snow doesn't linger too, too long. So I plant/move some of them accordingly in spots that receive more sun in early spring.

This one may be G. woronowii, the last to flower here, all the others faded by now.

[Leena]

Gabriela,  it looks like G.woronowii to me.
Here is a picture of mine, and leaves are typical bright green. A bit like Leucojum vernum leaves.
Spring is advancing very slowly here, most nights it is still below freezing, but snowdrops and early crocuses are flowering well and yesterday it was sunny and all were open. Today it rains again.

[kris]

Gabriela,  it looks like G.woronowii to me.
Here is a picture of mine, and leaves are typical bright green. A bit like Leucojum vernum leaves.
Spring is advancing very slowly here, most nights it is still below freezing, but snowdrops and early crocuses are flowering well and yesterday it was sunny and all were open. Today it rains again.

spring gives us lot of pleasure. Everyday walking around to see what is coming up is always exciting!!
Leena your crocus looks lovely. Somehow they are short lived in our area.
Here are two pictures taken yesterday in the garden.
Adonis ramosa
Adonis amurensis

[Mike Ireland]

In the garden & greenhouse today.
Trillium albidum
Trillium kurabayashii/albidum & last of the corydalis solida seedlings to flower
Trillium kuabayashii, first seedlings to flower in the garden nearly 30 years old now being surrounded by a Rhododendron Yaku Fairy.
Trillium camschatcense Nemuro

[Gabriela]

Gabriela,  it looks like G.woronowii to me.
Here is a picture of mine, and leaves are typical bright green. A bit like Leucojum vernum leaves.
Spring is advancing very slowly here, most nights it is still below freezing, but snowdrops and early crocuses are flowering well and yesterday it was sunny and all were open. Today it rains again.

Thanks Leena, it is similar with yours for sure. I like a slow spring, all ephemerals are flowering better and remain in flower long.
I don't understand how the Leucojum is flowering with you! here only the leaves are up.
We will get back to more seasonal temp. starting Sunday.

[Herman Mylemans]

Mike, very nice Trilliums, they also seems to like your garden!

[Mike Ireland]

Mike, very nice Trilliums, they also seems to like your garden!

They grow well for me Herman, all but T. Rivale which always dies off in the garden so I now only grow it in pots.
In 2013 this group was wonderful in 2014 nothing appeared.

[Herman Mylemans]

They grow well for me Herman, all but T. Rivale which always dies off in the garden so I now only grow it in pots.
In 2013 this group was wonderful in 2014 nothing appeared.

Mike, that was indeed a wonderful group of rivale. Here it is a bit the same, only a few seedlings here and there but never a big clump.

[Rick R.]

Such eye candy from everyone !!!  I am always after nearly everyone else.  Corydalis solida opened its first flowers yesterday.

Crocus don't seem to last well here, either, but I think I get my best long term results in the lawn:


Pulsatilla flavescens (or P.f. hybrid) really dwindled this season with only two flowers.  Weather has been all rainy, I hope I get seed, Kris!


Trillium sessile 'Clear Creek'. A wild clone from Illinois, USA selected by a friend.


Dirca palustris - Atlantic Leatherwood


Little Draba novolympica seedlings are always cute.

[Leena]

Mike, really nice big Trilliums!

Rick, what a beautiful little T.sessile.
Mostly Crocuses do well in my garden, except there is always a danger of voles, and every once in a while they eat some:(. I want them to grow naturally in the garden, so I only keep the seedlings in pots for two or three years.

I don't understand how the Leucojum is flowering with you! here only the leaves are up.

I haven't given it much thought, but here Leucojums flower around the same time as snowdrops, that is after the snow is gone. They never come up into the snow like snowdrops do, but when snow has melted they are very fast to come. So they start a bit later than the majority of snowdrops but flowering is about the same time. Funny that it is so late over there when you have many other plants more advanced than they are here. Could it be a matter of origin, though most of mine are commercial Dutch clone, and one is from Estonia.

[Leucogenes]

Only three and a half centimetres high...and yet something "big" for me...Primula renifolia.

[Hoy]

This year we have had snow, hail and sleet every day in April. It has never happened before in the 35 years I have lived here. More snowy days in April than we usually get in a whole year!

Narcissus cyclamineus in the lawn.




Some mountain species seems to enjoy the snow!

Heloniopsis orientalis




Soldanella sp




Shortia sp.

[Leena]

Also here it snowed a little yesterday (must be the same snow as in Norway , but it melted right away, luckily. Last night was below freezing again, but today it was sunny and nice.
Bulbocodium vernum and some unnamed crocuses behind.