Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[mark smyth]

Tony will we get to see some of your reginae-olgae selections?

[Tony Willis]

mark

I posted a picture earlier on the thread about the 1st October but I only took the one so no more this year.They are just ones I grew from seed I collected on several trips to Greece over the years and although I like them I did not think to take more photographs.

[Maggi Young]

and although I like them I did not think to take more photographs.

The doctor is IN!...... as Lucy used to say in the Peanuts strip cartoon.....

see, Tony, the chocolate treatment even works retrospectively ... there is hope for you!

[Tony Willis]

I was trying to be diplomatic and not say they all looked the same (to a none connoisseur)

[Anthony Darby]

I was checking my pots of snowdrop seeds and noticed the ones I sowed in the spring have germinated well. Leaves 1 cm long.

[snowdropman]

can anyone tell me if galanthus seeds germinate erraticly? as i have only found one so far in the pot i sowed this summer.

Yes, Galanthus seeds do often germinate erratically - you may well find that some of your seeds will not in fact germinate until next winter - by way of example, I had this with G. transcaucasicus where, last year, only 1 seed germinated but this year 5 seedlings have appeared.

[Pauli]

Hello,

my type of G. reginae-olgae still going strong (under rain protection), despite of our cold and rainy (tomorrow snowy) weather.

I think, I have a few to exchange next summer...



All the best from Austria

Herbert

[mark smyth]

Wow, I've never seen so many

[David Nicholson]

Here is my first one of the season, Galanthus elwesii. Arthur was kind enough to send me some bulbs of elwesii last year (thanks very much Art) and told me one batch were quite early and the other batch was much later. This one is really early.

[snowdropman]

Thanks for posting David - doesn't it give you a thrill when the first one of the season emerges

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for posting David - doesn't it give you a thrill when the first one of the season emerges

After a Summer like this year Chris I'm just grateful anything is still alive.

[snowdropman]

David - I must admit to a certain sense of relief this year, particularly with the reginae-olgae which really do not like the wet summers that we have been having - a combination of wet weather, but higher summer temperatures is, unfortunately, just the breeding ground for the nasty fungal diseases that attack snowdrops 

[snowdropman]

my type of G. reginae-olgae still going strong (under rain protection), despite of our cold and rainy (tomorrow snowy) weather.

Herbert - the first of the bulbs that you sent me came into flower back in late September and others are still starting to flower now - a vigorous form, with a long flowering period.

[KentGardener]

I know I posted a picture of Hyde Lodge when it was in bud - it is still my only one in flower at the moment so here is another snap of it with the flower open this week.

John 

[art600]

Here is my first one of the season, Galanthus elwesii. Arthur was kind enough to send me some bulbs of elwesii last year (thanks very much Art) and told me one batch were quite early and the other batch was much later. This one is really early.

David

My early ones are also up - have been as early as November 1st.