Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[Paddy Tobin]

Pauli,

A lovely clump of snowdrops and nice cyclamen in the bed as well.

All the best to Linz.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Herbert, that is a fine clone of reginae-olgae. I have had nothing but leaves this year, so far.

[art600]

Yes !
The two first ones are from the Epiros plant, and the last one from the Taygetos Mts plant : does it help you ?

No it doesn't.

Could the small one be a wrongly identified peshmenii.  They are generally smaller.

[biodiversite]

 

Would you be able to tell me what are the main differences between the two species ? It seems to me very obscur...

[snowdropman]

here is G.elwesii var.Hiemalis 'Hollis' -
im not to sure why this one was named as i cant really see any difference between this and regular G.elwesii var.Hiemalis?

Rob - I believe that this is g. elwesii var. monostictus 'Hollis', which was named by Dr Dowling Munro - before this it was informally circulated as g. elwesii 'Hollis Early Form' - apart from flowering early, I am told that most bulbs produce two flowers, a few weeks apart.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for re-posting, Rob! 

[Anthony Darby]

You say silkmoth caterpillar Rob. Was it an escapee? What species? Don't know any that would eat snowdrops.

[Maggi Young]

this is the first time i have found one inside a galanthus flower.
(they seem to go for developing flowers in bud)

I presume that in a rapidly developing flower there is lots of natural suger and general good calorific value  for these pests to eat and enjoy ?

[Anthony Darby]

Ah I see Rob. Silkmoths belong to the Saturniidae and the only British species is the emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia).

[Tony Willis]

first of the Galanthus elwesii 'Barnes'  out today

[mark smyth]

Cutting back plants and annuals in my raised  beds revealed way too many Galanthus noses above ground already.

[Tony Willis]

My G cilicicus in flower at the moment.

I have a number of species showing but think they will just hold back and flower in the spring.

[KentGardener]

Hi All

you are probably used to me disapearing for my Summer of jungle plants - well most of those have now been lagged for the Winter and my thoughts turn to snowdrops.   

Nothing that exciting here yet - but here are a couple of pictures so that I feel I am joining in.

Late flowers on 'Tilebarn Jamie' - I lost all the early ones to slug damage but thankfully this one give extra flowers per bulb 



And the next will be 'Hyde Lodge'




As many people have said already - far too many others are revealing their muzzles 

cheers all

John

[Anthony Darby]

My G cilicicus in flower at the moment.

I have a number of species showing but think they will just hold back and flower in the spring.

That's a new one to me Tony. Lovely.

[mark smyth]

John I recognise the writing on the label that is stuck in the pot of 'Hyde Lodge'. I was disappointed with their snowdrops this year so may not order again