Galanthus January 2025

[Mariette]

The New Year starts with snow, ´Wendy´s Gold´doesn´t mind.



´Mrs. Macnamara´on the left hasn´t yet opened its buds, the small clump to the right has bigger flowers and is always a bit earlier.
Maybe a seedling?

[Leena]

Mariette, it is nice to see how your snowdrop season has started.
Here my 'Mrs Macnamara' was just showing its nose before New Year, now all are covered by snow and ground is frozen.
Finding nice seedlings is one of the best things and it is always exciting to see how they turn out.

[ielaba2011]

Galanthus 'Colossus'

[ielaba2011]

These were some of the snowdrops in flower in my garden right before Christmas, and they still have some flowers now in January - yet a bit damaged by the rain:

'Godfrey Owen' no need to say which one it is - very distinctive flower shape, here in the garden it bulks up really fast, I started with one bulb and I was already able to plant it in more places in the open garden. I love this snowdrop.

the other one is 'Colossus' - in the same year, I bought it from the UK, a single bulb... It loves the light and  sunny conditions, grows up really tall and lots of new bulbs in just few years ...a good doer.

More G. nivalis are starting to apear in the garden, let's see how they do in this very mild year here in the south.

Happy New gardening year to all in the forum.

[Stefan B.]

This winter, I have snow in my garden since Christmas, that's good but... I want to enjoy my snowdrops too. This week I hope that will happen.



Thanks Leena for these lovely ones "bambini"! They appeared from the ground already in December.

[Leena]

Stefan, here they flower in April, just like the others, but often come up fully developed when the snow melts, so I'm not surprised they are early in your warmer climate.
'Bambino' has been a very vigorous snowdrops here, not the biggest or most elegant, but a good snowdrop anyway.
I bought it from RSSnowdrops when it was still possible, I believe it is their named cultivar, but I'm not sure. There is not very much about it online.

I hope your snow melts so you can enjoy your snowdrops. Here their flowering time is always too short because of winter.

[Stefan B.]

It has been warmer and sunnier for several days 


Galanthus elwesii 'Dickkopf'


Galanthus plicatus 'Three Ships'

[Stefan B.]

Today it was a wonderful sunny day. 


Early Galanthus woronowii


Galanthus plicatus 'Bambino'

[Tim Harberd]

I haven't posted on here for a while!
Here is Bill Clark and my own (very slightly larger flowered) seedling.
The slugs have a definite preference for mine!!

Tim DH

[Villu]

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

1 G. elwesii 'Mrs Macnamara'

2 G. elwesii 'Reverend Hailstone'

3 G. elwesii 'Godfrey Owen'

4 G. nivalis

5 G. 'Sutton Courtenay'


I hope there is no harsh cold in February!

[Mariette]

Villu, I hope the same for You!

Tim, congratulations on Your seedling! Is it G. plicatus or a hybrid?

Stefan, Your snowdrops are always well ahead of mine, but ielaba´s snowdrops are even earlier!

At least, we enjoyed the same sunshine and warmer temperatures today, and ´Mrs Macnamara´ opened some flowers.



Close-up



Now that the little group shown January 10 opens its flowers it becomes obvious that it must be a seedling.



´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.



Less prone to bulking in my garden, but I like it, too: G. alpinus.

[Mariette]

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

[Jeffnz]

Hi I will soon be receiving seed from the NZ Trillium Group, I will contact you when it arrives to see if there is anyhting that might interest you.
Does your G. Golden Fleece usually set seed?
Regards
Jeff

[Mariette]

Hi Jeff, ´Golden Fleece´doesn´t set much seed with me, but with its breeder, as he told me. Also, the seeds of it I tried didn´t germinate as well as others.

[MarcR]

Hi All,

I really like the yellow Galanthus; but, I can't find a U.S. source, and the cost of a Phyto makes buying from a UK supplier prohibitive. If anyone knows of a reliable Australian, or Canadian [or any other country with a low cost Phyto service] grower, who does export, I would be grateful.