Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[mark smyth]

that is an excellent find for whoever discovered it

[mark smyth]

At this year's bulb sale I bought some reginae-olgae bulbs, £5 for 5 small daughter bulbs, and although small all are flowering. They have an unusual green mark

[hadacekf]

Galanthus regnae-olgae in my garden.

[Maggi Young]

Looking very good, Franz.... and I see you have some nice sunshine, too!

[mark smyth]

not the best photo but here is one of the bulbs from the bulb sale

[Hagen Engelmann]

Franz, I`m dreaming for such big groups of autumn snowdrops!
Mark, oh yes the way is free for much more (green)marked autumn drops!

[Pauli]

Hello from Austria,

Is this plant  peshmenii?


All the best from Linz

Herbert

[art600]

Looks more like reginae-olgae. 

[Hans J]

Hi all ,

here start with flowers some autumn flowering G. elwesii !
some cultivars like 'Peter Gatehouse' , 'Barnes' , and unnamed .....

Hans

[Thomas Huber]

Hi all ,

here start with flowers some autumn flowering G. elwesii !
some cultivars like 'Peter Gatehouse' , 'Barnes' , and unnamed .....

Hans

Photos

[Hans J]

Thomas : please send me better weather ....with sun please !

Rob : I would be really glad if you could write correct plant names  "

I know some of the younger people today will write all with small letters and many abbreviations -but this will give a lot of misunderstandings ....
Please remember the discussion about latin plantnames ....maybe we speak not all correct latin - but we should try to use correct names to write .

Are you sure that your plant is a G. plicatus 'Colossus' ? I have never seen a G. plicatus so early.

I'm not if all this named cultivars of Gal. reg. olgae are so good - it seems there is for me not big differences .....I think this plants like 'Vasiliki' ,'Eleni','Sofia' and more came all from the same population...

I'm maybe not the right person to criticise you because my english is really bad ....but I try always to follow the old motto of plantcollectors :

                                                    In minimo quoque fidelis

[Hans J]

No problem Rob !

Here is a little help :
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Botanical_Nomenclature

here for cultivars :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_for_Cultivated_Plants

If you  look there so you have to write : Galanthus plicatus ' Colossus' ( collosus is wrong ) - same is for 'Tilebarn Jamie' and so ....

I hope this helps a bit 

[Hans J]

Rob ,

we all have to learn -each day 

[ian mcenery]

Just beginning to flower and looking OK G reg olgae Cambridge

[Paddy Tobin]

Ian,

Lovely clumps of snowdrops, looking so very well which is a surprise to me as I imagine weather conditions are so miserable that anything that can stand up and bloom so very well, clean petals etc, is a great bonus. No wonder snowdrops are so popular.

Re the accurate naming of plants, discussed above, for the last six years I have been newsletter editor for the Irish Garden Plant Society (very like the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens in the UK) and, in my early days in the position, regularly drew the comments and guidance of an ex taxonomist of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. Regular correspondence with this gentleman has led me to appreciate the extreme importance of correct naming and correct use of the naming procedures. Sloppy naming, even in the casual exchanges of this forum, are really a danger to accuracy and can lead to several plants carrying the same name, a big muddle in other words. It is worth taking the time to write the names properly.

Paddy