Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hm, Tony very exact collection but there must be an intensify pleasant aroma in the tunnel. But I like Arum too.
Today I have seen THREE SHIPS on the way with ringing flowers. Earlier then last year. Who knows when spring will open the high season.

[Roma]

No snowdrop pictures here for a while? My G. reginae-olgae looked like this last Tuesday but are now standing up well. If you want some vigorous reginae-olgae, Maggi, I can give you a clump in the spring. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Roma, we will have winter for four month. It`s very long. I enjoy every warm day over 0°C.

[Tony Willis]

Hm, Tony very exact collection but there must be an intensify pleasant aroma in the tunnel. But I like Arum too.

Hagen you are correct about the smell in a small greenhouse. With a few in flower it is awful but they are amazing plants. The other problem is that unlike galanthus and other bulbs the flower only lasts a couple of days

[Maggi Young]

Roma, that would be very kind of you, thanks! 

Tony, please tell me you have those Arums as far away from your house as possible? 

[Tony Willis]

Maggi they add a certain something to breakfast when their scent? drifts in as I sit eating my mushy weetabix on a warm spring morning.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi they add a certain something to breakfast when their scent? drifts in as I sit eating my mushy weetabix on a warm spring morning.

ooh, errr......

[David Nicholson]

Tony, didn't know you got warm Spring mornings in Chorley, maybe Chorley FM weathermen are better than out locals!

[Tony Willis]

Note the comment-drift in, I did not say I would not be sat on the patio or that it would also be raining as I did not want to spoil the picture it conjured up.

 I watch the weather forecast with despair as I the lovely Dianne tells me it is a sunny day and look out of the window and see the reality. It is p..ing down here at the moment!

[Maggi Young]

Note the comment-drift in,

You, know I DID wonder about that... had visions of force eight gale blasting the pong into the kitchen.... which is what tends to happen here since my Beloved planted Arum dioscoridis five feet from the back door 

[biodiversite]

Flowers at this time : large flowering of G. ikariae ssp. snogerupii and beginning of G. cilicicus : has someone this species flowering too ? I woulf be happy to compare the flowers...

[Tony Willis]

I posted a picture of my G. cilcicus on this thread page 12 reply 178.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2117.msg60865#msg60865

It is still in flower and has been for over a month.

[biodiversite]

Thanks Tony : leaves are similar, ouf ! I'm sure now that I have the true species. Is it common to have a touch of green on the external tepals ?

[Hagen Engelmann]

The green is not common. How is the colour of the leaves. Do they have a midrib?

[biodiversite]

Leaves are glaucous with a midrib. Here is a picture of the leaves last year :