Galanthus mid February to March 2007

[mark smyth]

Alan bulbs are supposed to like being together. Planting named/special cultivars among eg nivalis sounds good because the chances of a pest eating it are slim as seen in flocks of birds

[Anthony Darby]

Your krasnovii is correct Mark. I have four bulbs (from two last year) in two sites in the garden. Last year they were in bloom for the EBD, but this year the flower buds are still wrapped; in fact, one clump is still below the soil surface. Did you ever track down kosher platyphyllus?

[Brian Ellis]

Here are a few that are out today.  Not wonderful clumps as I am still (as they say in these here parts a larner). Blonde Inge, Maidwell C, Neill Fraser, Melvillei and Peg Sharples.

[mark smyth]

nivalis 'Blonde Inge' is missing the yellow inner mark! Did you buy it from a reputable source? Once disturbed it loses the yellow inner mark and may take a year or two to settle. If it was freshly lifted this year it should have it's yellow mark

[John Forrest]

Hi Mark,  My snowdrops are late in coming and just checking that these are correctly named.

1 & 2 Galanthus Jacquinetta

3 Desdemona

4 Marks tall (is this a reference to you ?)

5 Wendy's Gold

[Brian Ellis]

Re Blonde Inge, yes it is a new acquisition from a reputable source so hopefully then next year it will do it's thing properly.  Thanks for posting the picture of what it will look like.  So little time...so much to learn!

[Alan_b]

Another foundling snowdrop  - which I did not have permission to remove.  I did not look too closely at the leaves but it was amongst a huge clump of plicates so I imagine it is plicate also.  Does it resemble a known cultivar? 

[mark smyth]

Alan I was told last night albinos are stable unfortunately green tips arent so look after you new find and see what it does next year

Here is an example of unstable green
'Mini Me' last year
'Mini Me' this year

[ian mcenery]

Here is Blewberry tart. All I can say is why???

Is this all it does???

If this had appeared in my garden as a seedling I would probably put it on the compost heap

[mark smyth]

simply found in Blewbury and a play on words

[annew]

I think Ian means why bother growing it! The snowdrop shown above as Desdemona looks like my mystery one.

[Alan_b]

Blewbury Tart is much greener than a typical double and the flowers tend to face upwards for a while until the flower matures.  I think it is much more attractive than the common nivalis flora pleno which, to my mind, only looks good when viewed en-masse from a distance.

It also illustrates the value of a good name when 'marketing' a plant.  For example, it had been my ambition to breed an Aster in order to call it Aster La Vista - but somebody beat me to it!

[mark smyth]

John I have no idea about your doubles, sorry. Mark's Tall, from me?, seems to have a very big 'heart'

from my own garden
nivalis ex Slovakia a lovely tall elegant  snowdrop with ribbed inners

I'll add Snowflakes here. If only mine looked like this!

[David Nicholson]

..........It also illustrates the value of a good name when 'marketing' a plant.  For example, it had been my ambition to breed an Aster in order to call it Aster La Vista - but somebody beat me to it!

I'm still chuckling about that one

[mark smyth]

just been to the bulb log and see Ian has posted the same group of Leucojums as I showed above