Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[art600]

Rob

I was overoptimistic - think it will be tuesday before the flower opens.

[Tony Willis]

Its the last day of sunshine and it has brought out my first G.reginae olgae.

Eleni has not opened with me yet

[Gerard Oud]

Rob, any bulb can be used. I twinscaled Wasp, and that is a very tiny bulb, but i got 22 bulblets out of it.
They are on a growingmedium now, and when they have reached a size of 5mm i will plant them.

[snowdropman]

heres eleni as promised .... as you can see from the pic its on a very short scape

Rob - this often happens with reginae-olgae, especially when the weather/the soil is dry - you should find that the scape will soon start to elongate and gradually grow to its full size, particularly if you help it by watering your pot.

[Gerard Oud]

Rob you can twinscale the whole year trough.

[art600]

Here are some shots of Galanthus peshmenii and newly emerged reginae-olgae.

[Tony Willis]

ok art and tony, i look forward to when your eleni are open and we can compare flowers, i will be intrested to know how tall the scapes are with yours!

Rob

my Eleni has opened on a scape about 12cms high. The only difference I can see between it and my other reginae olgae is that the flower is smaller. It is its first year with me and maybe it will be larger next year.It has been well watered and so its small size is not because it is suffering.

[KentGardener]

Guess what I have done... I have a feeling I have done this and posted about it for the last few years.....  I forgot that Tilebarn Jamie flowers quite this early!  I have just moved a potted palm and found a hidden 11 flowers & buds of T.J. all munched.  I have the odd petal remaining but the best of the early display has been slugged!   

A word of warning to us all...... (get the blue pellets out (sorry!  I try to avoid chemicals except for the snowies.  (you should see that state of my mini hostas!))

But it is great to know that they are popping up here also already.   

John

[Maggi Young]

I have just moved a potted palm 

As you do!!! We don't have to move potted palms up here.... they all run away to warmer climes of their own accord 

[Thomas Huber]

A word of warning to us all...... (get the blue pellets out (sorry!  I try to avoid chemicals except for the snowies.  (you should see that state of my mini hostas!))
John

John I didn't know, that Viagra also helps snowies and hostas to stand up   

[Brian Ellis]

I have just moved a potted palm and found a hidden 11 flowers & buds of T.J. all munched.

A bit excessive John, surely you could have kept them on the drier side another way

[mark smyth]

No sign of mine just now but I know slugs ate them last year. Pellets are down anyway to protect Colchicums and Galanthus

[Eric Locke]

Galanthus Peshmenii "Kastellorizo Form " Rix 4010

My first Autumn galanthus to flower.
This Island form flowers with the leaves and has a very nice scent.
No sign of any other Autumn species as yet including the more normal Peshmenii form.

[Tony Willis]

Eric a very nice G. Peshmenii.

I have attached a picture of a pot of mine from which I hope you can see that of the seven plants visible one has well developed leaves , with two they are just showing and the other four are flowering with none, so I do not think this is a distinctive characteristic. I cannot comment on the scent as I have a very poor sense of smell and I have some biarums out in the greenhouse at the same time.When I have been at Kas  I have never plucked up courage to pop over to Kastellorhizo and look for them in the wild

I have also attached a picture of G. reginae olgae which is also open.

[Gerard Oud]

Looks to me there are 2 or 3 different one's in your pot with Peshmenii Tony. They are dark green and bigger, and the green drawing on the innerpetals looks different.