Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes Bio, the leaves look like G. cilicicus. The midrib is not striking on the upside.
Fine plant. I have seen only one time Gc with outer tips!

[biodiversite]

I have seen only one time Gc with outer tips!

Was it a wild plant or a cultivated one ?
I don't have the precise origin of mine, only "Taurus".
I have about ten bulbs of this plant : if you want to swap one against an interesting form of this species or another one, no problem for this summer 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Taurus is OK. Near Mersin. If you could reserve one bulb for me, it would be great. Thank you.
I never saw Gc in the wild, because I was too early, or the flowers were too late. There was no date together.

[Anthony Darby]

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

A fine looking plant. How do you grow it?

[biodiversite]

No problem Hagen !

Anthony, this plant is outside in the garden, near a south-faced wall, in my normal earth with some fine pouzzolane and compost at the bottom of the clay pot plunged in the earth (sorry for my english  , I hope you understand...).

[Brian Ellis]

pouzzolane

Can you tell me what this is?

[Brian Ellis]

Ah I see that it is volcanic lava, and rather rare in Norfolk!

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony, this plant is outside in the garden, near a south-faced wall, in my normal earth with some fine pouzzolane and compost at the bottom of the clay pot plunged in the earth (sorry for my english  , I hope you understand...).

Thanks. I understand perfectly. It can take temperatures below 0^oC then? Is this the same for snogerupii? I have seedlings of this one and would hate to lose them.

[snowdropman]

Thanks. I understand perfectly. It can take temperatures below 0^oC then? Is this the same for snogerupii? I have seedlings of this one and would hate to lose them.

I cannot vouch for either plant in a Scottish frost, Anthony  , but they seem to handle the English version without any obvious problems (regularly down to -3/-4C, with the occasional drop to circa -8C) - my cilicicus planted in the open garden has been flowering since early October whereas in other more shaded areas it is only just coming into flower - snogerupii is in bud and will flower within the week.

[biodiversite]

Brian, yes pouzzolane is volcanic lava, in France it comes from the Massif Central (Auvergne).

Anthony : in my garden the temperature can reach -10°C and there is no problem for my Galanthi. Here is a picture of frozen G. snogerupii :

[Anthony Darby]

They look, and make me, very happy.

[Brian Ellis]

They look, and make me, very happy.

Before anyone else gets in with it, it's good that something so simple gives so many of us so much pleasure

[Tony Willis]

I have seen only one time Gc with outer tips!

Was it a wild plant or a cultivated one ?
I don't have the precise origin of mine, only "Taurus".
I have about ten bulbs of this plant : if you want to swap one against an interesting form of this species or another one, no problem for this summer 

I understand mine was collected by Richard Nutt and is the collection mentioned in the Galanthus Monograph.

Here is a rather tall growing G. reginae-olgae ssp vernalis from the Western Pelopennese in flower now

[snowdropman]

Here is a rather tall growing G. reginae-olgae ssp vernalis from the Western Pelopennese in flower now

Very attractive plant Tony - I like snowdrops with this very upright stance very much.

[Brian Ellis]

Very distinguished looking plant Tony