Galanthus in February 2025

[Alan_b]

You have raised them, then they strike off on their own, go out into the world and achieve success.  It's very gratifying to witness.



 

[Maggi Young]

You have raised them, then they strike off on their own, go out into the world and achieve success.  It's very gratifying to witness.
 

It certainly is! Well done, Alan!

[Alan_b]

Another of the ones I discovered and raised making good; double snowdrop 'Cressida' if you can't read the label.

[Mariette]

Very nice, Alan! Would You like to tell us the story behind it?

The snowdrops start rather late this year in my garden, but today they looked nice. A nameless poculiform G. nivalis.



´Greenpeace´does well in my garden.





´Ketton´ is a favourite of mine, yet I had to try it in three different spots to find a place it likes.

[Mariette]

´Walrus´looks like this with me, a friend has a different clone.





´Excelsis´



´Myddleton Giant´



´Gerard Parker´

[Palustris]

This is G. plcatus Adolphus. I thought that there was a problem with virus in this cultivar, but this looks healthy enough.

Unless of course the label is wrong.

[Leena]

You have raised them, then they strike off on their own, go out into the world and achieve success.  It's very gratifying to witness.

Here they are also in my garden. Survived 20 days below freezing, lowest was -18 and not much snow. Ground is still frozen but they are still growing.
'Green Light'


Mariette, how lovely views! I like all the combinations with snowdrops and other plants you have. Here snowdrops are quite alone at this time.
'Greenpeace' has been a very good doer also here, and strong big snowdrop. However 'Gerard Parker' is not doing so well, I almost lost it three years ago, but now it is slowly recovering (or was last spring), though not up yet.

'Atkinsii', always good.



'Mrs Macnamara' which I have in several spots, and it is doing good in all of them.





'Bambino' has grown more since the beginning of February, even though it was below freezing all the time, day and night. I had covered them with that spruce branche behind.

[Stefan B.]

Mariete, how nice to have warm weather with you, wonderful photos! My garden is covered in snow and the temperatures are below zero. That's why I decided to go shopping:)... in Mannheim, Germany, more precisely in Luisenpark, where this Saturday and Sunday the traditional snowdrop exhibition took place. I'm already in Sofia tired and satisfied with the walk.

[Stefan B.]

There were many visitors, it was a wonderful experience to be among people who share your interests.

Huge queue!!

Impatient galantophiles

[Stefan B.]

The walk in the park was very pleasant.

[Mariette]

@ Leena: Thank You! I´m glad that ´Greenpeace´does well with You! ´Gerard Parker´ seeds around in my garden, but from a galanthophile gardening in a harsher climate I learnt that he had problems with this variety, too. Maybe it´s less hardy than others.

@ Stefan: what an effort to travel from Bulgaria to Mannheim! I hope You thoroughly enjoyed the event! I visited it twice, and the storks are a nice and lasting memory.

[Stefan B.]

@ Stefan: what an effort to travel from Bulgaria to Mannheim! I hope You thoroughly enjoyed the event! I visited it twice, and the storks are a nice and lasting memory.

I love to travel and visit interesting places. There was also a colony of parrots in the park.

[Mariette]

Since the sixties these birds are neobiota along the Rhine - not always a delight for the residents. 

´Cowhouse Green´



A seedling

[Stefan B.]

I didn't notice any bees in my garden today, but it's good that the snow is melting. We had a normal winter this winter and I like that.


Galanthus 'Spindlestone Surprise'


Galanthus 'Wasp'


Galanthus trojanus

[Stefan B.]

Galanthus nivalis  cv. `Green Tear`


Galanthus 'Hill Poe'


Galanthus from Slovenia