Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[johnw]

and where's the proof

here we go.....very fuzzy photo....well, it is dark, minus 3 , under a fern and me behind the camera!!

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You will see, even in this fuzzy photo, that the bulb s increasing.... that's a first for G. r.o., here, too!
Thank you for your kind words, Chris! 
 No idea where I got it... may have been Sandy Leven.

Mark  - Don't believe her, she's been photographing white Christmas lights.

johnw

[KentGardener]

I believe I see a second flower emerging!

Blimey you have good eyesight Mark! 

[steve owen]

I have a small clump of G Mandarin in full flower. They join Donald Sims Early, and Elwesii Hiemalis. R/o Cambridge are long since over, and Barnes and Peter Gatehouse went over a fortnight ago.
Kastellorhizo has flowered and is over in the alpine house.

[ashley]

.....very fuzzy photo....

G. 'Nessie'?   

[Maggi Young]

I will ignore all the rather unkind comments about me and my snowie pic.....
I've had a good look at it today and, what a surprise..... not only is there a second flower showing, the third nose has a bud, too!

I think Ian has taken more competent photos, but those are in his laptop machine so not accessible to me here at the minute.

[mark smyth]

Has my snowdrop ever been released, from it's jail sentence in a wee pot, in to the garden where it can grow tall and proud?

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Mark, Mark's Tall was released  into the garden just after you were here complaining about it 

[ashley]

I will ignore all the rather unkind comments about me and my snowie pic.....

Just teasing Maggi.  Of course I'm only jealous because all three snouts on my first (& completely ordinary) G. reginae-olgae were mown down by marauding slugs as soon as they emerged.  Pellets next year - whatever the scruples!

[mark smyth]

Ashley you cant have enough pellets. I need to put some in the plunges tomorrow. The first flower from one of my C. chrysanthus cultivars has been nibbled.

[Alan_b]

..... Barnes and Peter Gatehouse went over a fortnight ago. ........

Both still going strong in my garden; you must be somewhere nice and warm.  I am still waiting for many of my early elwesiis this year.

[mark smyth]

My early elwesii and 'Peter Gatehouse' are over also

[Anthony Darby]

I have a small clump of G Mandarin in full flower.

Are the inner segments orange, or perhaps it has something to do with orientation of the petals?

[Martin Baxendale]

i found some more galanthus seedlings today, I'm happy
but I'm not sure if they are G.reginae olgae as they dont appear to have a median stripe, or does this feature develop after this initial cotyledon? (i.e true leaves)
they could still be some armine x  nivalis sandersii crosses though as they are a odd green like 'anglessey abbey'
rob

Rob, snowdrop seeds do often germinate sporadically. One or two in a pot tend to come through early, others later in the year, some not until the following year. You'll probably find more as winter goes on, germination stimulated by the cold spells.

Like most plants, the cotyledons of snowdrops don't look exactly like the mature leaves. The seed leaves are bright green with no median stripes, glaucous bloom or other distinguishing features such as you get in mature leaves. The reginae olgae seedlings will develop their median stripes in future years.