Galanthus to mid February 2007

[mark smyth]

I'm maybe jumping the gun a wee bit to create a new page. As someone said the last one is 14 pages

I'll kick it off with two yellows. plicatus 'Bill Clarke' and an un-named nivalis Sandersii Group

[mark smyth]

Every garden should have the tall, scented lovely shaped 'S. Arnott'. No snobbery in my garden.

Also a new all green inner elwesii so far un-named. Currently no more than 3 inches

And two forms of elwesii 'Fred's Giant'

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for the new page, Mark.  I've got two of these ones!
Your short elwesii is neat. The shorter ones are prone to getting very dirty from mudsplashes in bad weather if there isn't a good mulch on the ground, though.

[mark smyth]

Which ones? 'Fred's'

[Maggi Young]

We have some Fred's Giant and Sam Arnott. I have a few other named ones, but since I can't tell any of them apart, I don't worry too much about who they are! Every now and I recognise a name you white fever sufferers are tossing about and think, I remember buying/ being given one of those, wonder where it is? Some of them do have labels stuck down deep beside them, but I can never find those when I look!
I got some lovely "wild" ones many years ago from a sheep-keeping-lady-doctor in Wales, they are known as the Welsh snowies. very few of our snowies are much above ground yet.

[mark smyth]

This is the tiny elwesii again with measurements in inches and cm.

Also included is a lovely elwesii I named at the first snowdrop lunch I was invited to. For the perfectionists I got it wrong when I called it 'Pyramid' as three petals can only make a three sided shape. It takes a warm day to see it at it's best. If I have time tomorrow I'll pick one for some windowsil treatment

[David Nicholson]

Are they a delicate lilac shade, or was it the light (am I showing my ignorance of things snowdrop!)

[mark smyth]

nah, just poor light but there are some 'pink' and 'orange' tinted snowdrops about.

[David Nicholson]

I'm planning a trip to East Lambrook next month (I know you are "strutting you stuff" there sometime next month-and it's sold out!!) and I haven't been before. Will there be Cyclamen, Crocus etc as well as Snowdrops?

[Maggi Young]

Okay, so if a pyramid has four triangular sides what is a three-sided one called ?

[mark smyth]

tryamid but googled it just now and see mention of a three sided pyramid

There should be Cyclamen down there but note sure about Crocus

[David Nicholson]

Are you doing a Crossword or is this a geometrical exercise? By the way it's raining here.

[Maggi Young]

David, Mark said "For the perfectionists I got it wrong when I called it 'Pyramid' as three petals can only make a three sided shape", so that's what started this.
By the way, don't believe this waffle about pink tinged, etc, it's all done with smoke and mirrors.

I can't tell you if it's raining here, it's nearly too blooming dark to see.

PS, unless I get a new dog, I don't DO exercise!

[Maggi Young]

 I think we're talking Tetrahedron, if we're talking Pyramids, as building, but we've still got a puzzle for a good name for a 3-part flower, white or otherwise. And Trillium is already taken.
What is a Tetrahedron? I hear you ask:



"A tetrahedron is a three-dimensional figure with four equilateral triangles. If you lift up three triangles (1), you get the tetrahedron in top view (2). Generally it is shown in perspective (3). 
If you look at the word tetrahedron (tetrahedron means "with four planes"), you could call every pyramid with a triangle as the base a tetrahedron."


......so there! 

[hadacekf]

Mark,
The flower points of my Galanthus nivalis Sandersii Group are 2 cm tall.
I am pleased therefore about your photos. Thanks