Galanthus January 2025

[Leena]

Lovely snowdrops everyone!

Winter is incredibly mild in Estonia this year. I don't remember having snowdrops so early.

Your snowdrops are looking good  , and so early. Winter has also here been mild, but here the earliest snowdrops are just poking through ground, and it will get cold again here before the real spring.  There is still some snow, but about half has now melted temporarily.
This is 'Bess' in a very early spot, but it seems to be an early snowdrop anyway.

´Golden Fleece´ is a snowdrop of superlatives: very beautiful, my earliest yellow one and extremely vigourous here. I started 2019 with one bulb and ended up with next to 40 this year.

'Golden Fleece' looks so beautiful! And how vigorous it is. I hope mine will also be vigorous in time.

[Villu]

It is looking really promising already, Leena!
But I think it is better to have them small in our latitudes in this time!

[Stefan B.]

At last the star of the day: G. trojanus. I´m extremely grateful  for that treasure  to a very generous forumist!

Gorgeous!

[Stefan B.]

Seeding from G. 'Rosemary Burnham'. I was waiting for a week to open, today I was very happy while I was shooting it. For the first time it blooms, the seed is planted 2020.

[Stefan B.]

Galanthus plicatus 'Wendy's Gold'

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Mariette,
   My yellow seedling is a hybrid.

   Went with Dad to Harlow Carr today. They have a 'raised bed' of named snowdrops up by the Alpine House. Being out doors they are a bit battered, but its a decent collection. I should have counted, but maybe 30 cultivars?

Tim DH

[Maggi Young]

   Went with Dad to Harlow Carr today. They have a 'raised bed' of named snowdrops up by the Alpine House. Being out doors they are a bit battered, but its a decent collection. I should have counted, but maybe 30 cultivars?

Tim DH

What a delight to see your Father out and about - best wishes to you both!!

[Mariette]

Indeed - and it evokes fond memories, as we visited Harlow Carr several times in the past when staying with friends in Leeds. Never at snowdrop time, but I remember marvelling at a big rhubarb collection - nothing I´ve ever seen in Germany!

[Maggi Young]

What a delight to see your Father out and about - best wishes to you both!!

   IRG 180
This is the first issue of the sixteenth year of the International Rock Gardener. A monthly freely available online magazine on the @ScottishRockgc website.
Robert Rolfe gives an insight into the  Royal Horticultural Society garden of Harlow Carr in Harrogate, Yorkshire and Gerrit and Ibelje Eijkelenboom continue their travels with part two of Orchids of southern France, the orchids in the month of May.

Download here: https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250130172424IRG%20180.pdf