SRGC Galanthus Poll - in your top 5

[johnw]

Gerard     - Remind me in the summer and Santa will send you a Heffalump (not as in "half a lump of coal").

Okay, here's my impossible five:

Casaba (Daglingworth)
Caspar
Cowhouse Green
Dickerchen
South Hayes

If Santa can't get financing from the Bank of Iceland for the above then:

Alanja (who's gone missing)
Merlin (who the flies got)
Mighty Atom (")
Primrose Warburg
Galatea (who refuses to persist)

Now who's to start the Twelve Days of Christmas with Galanthus vars.? 

johnw

[Hagen Engelmann]

What(who) is ALANJA ? Where did you see this drop???

[snowdropman]

What(who) is ALANJA ? Where did you see this drop???

could this be G. elwesii alanya-yayla?

[Maggi Young]

Chris, are you saying there is a plant called this.....G. elwesii alanya-yayla   ?  what a tongue-twister .... is it a Turkish name?

 goodness me, yes, and here it is......
first in the elwesii lists....   http://www.oirlicher-blumengarten.de/galanthus/elwesii.html

[Hagen Engelmann]

How Chris says, it is one of the best G. elwesii -types, they circulate in Germany. An other name is ALANYA YAYLA. There are different clones. Very great and good flowers. Some times  they are named under MAGDEBURGER RIESEN. But now they are also known in Nova Scotia???

[snowdropman]

But now they are also known in Nova Scotia???

I think that maybe John has been looking at the website of Günter Waldorf

[Anthony Darby]

much better. Do you mean, it`s only a dream? elves aren`t real? But snowdrop company are elves?

I hope the national elf service is looking after their wellbeing?

[johnw]

What(who) is ALANJA ? Where did you see this drop???

Hagen

Galanthus elwesii 'Alanja' - I saw it here!  In 2003 I got it from a friend in Germany who is a galanthophile, he says a good, very big elwesii. Indeed it's circulating in Germany according to records. My notes say "32-34 cm, 10.1, fl 25mm, supervolute, very big".  Saw it bloom once but no pot found this summer or label - damn.  Have 1 pot labelled 'Lola' but think that is a missing 'Robin Hood' from Foxgrove. Also a 'Nola', I guess we all have lots of those.

Maybe the elves are making off with these drops and heading north.

johnw

[Gerdk]

A ' Yayla ' is an alpine pasture or alp or shieling (according my online dictionary).
In German ' Alm'.
So ' Alanya Yayla ' denotes a lovely part in the mountains above Alanya -  still much cooler and quieter than the town itself. There are also some snowdrops growing.

Gerd

[Brian Ellis]

After the description of Galanthus elwesii 'Alanja' from Chris I might have to change my mind

[mark smyth]

Gerard your 'poc' is lovely but it's not a poc. It needs to have all petals equal length and white

[Maggi Young]

much better. Do you mean, it`s only a dream? elves aren`t real?

Elves are not real??!!!! Of course elves are real.... you must have met some of these elves...... 
there are Alpine Elves,  https://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/alpine-l.html   
 Trillium Elves,    https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.cgi?A0=trillium-l   
  Arisaema Elves,    https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.cgi?A0=arisaema-l&D=0&F=&H=0&O=T&S=&T=0
all sorts of Elves....... 

[johnw]

much better. Do you mean, it`s only a dream? elves aren`t real?

Elves are not real??!!!! Of course elves are real.... you must have met some of these elves...... 
there are Alpine Elves,all sorts of Elves....... 

And Icelandic elves. Maggi, you can listen to this but you will have to scroll to the relevant part. I know it's these Icelandic ones that are taking the Galanthus.

http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry/archives/2008/120708.html

johnw

[Maggi Young]

For anyone who has doubts about the existence of elves, may I suggest you follow this link......
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/HuaNN9n2ruW9Vv5F


Or this one, which shows the elves enjoying a barn dance.... elves LOVE barn dances!.....

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/0uk8OQDPehD4Etyq

....conclusive proof, I think 

[Gerard Oud]

I have never read any discription of a "double" Poculoformis in any book, could be new! The innners and the outers do not have the exact equal lenght but i didnot know this should be a measurement for Poculoformis.