Re: Winter snowdrops

[David Nicholson]

David, I think you mean 8-11 kb, not mb.

Thanks Martin, I did.

[Martin Baxendale]

600 or 700 pixels wide is a good size

Yes, if it's a good pic with lots of detail to see. I'd say a single flower close-up could be smaller. Depends on the pic and its quality. Not much point posting a poorish quality snap too large. But a great pic deserves 600 or 700 pixels of course. One problem I noticed is that Microsoft Office Picture Manager doesn't seem to want to make the pics very big. But then I didn't spend much time messing with it.

[steve owen]

Guys

Thanks for the advice.
I'm now hoping I have attached two resized pics of the mystery elwesii so that they can be increased by clicking. L-Plates!

[mark smyth]

Could be Deerslot but is identical to my elwesii hiemalis that I bought many years ago.

[Maggi Young]

Well done, , Biggles! You'll soon  have your wings at this rate! 

[David Nicholson]

Much better Steve.

[mark smyth]

In all the years I have has 'Wendy's Gold' it has never moved. One group in a lattice pot obviously can't but the others free to do whatever stay put

[Jo]

I wonder if it is burrowing creatures and maybe you don't have that problem Mark ?  If a mole goes through my woodland beds it leaves something like the London underground behind it and that means bulbs can just roll around.

My cats bring in numerous creatures but even with 4 of them working full time they haven't sorted it.  I think they are closet natural history lovers really.

Bill Bishop for instance vanished one year till I found it a few feet away uder foliage and there was a yawning great carvern where it had been

[mark smyth]

I would blame moles too. We dont have them.

[Jo]

Yes cats can be very annoying  . Mine think it their duty to follow me round the garden, as I crawl round on hands and knees, and sit / play with / pounce on the thing I'm working on.   Not good for developing shoots.

I must say I've not noticed any kind of contracile roots on snowdrops, although they may increase in lines of least resistance through the soil.  My soil forms cracks in the summer, being clay, and that would certainly enourage linear growth. 

[Michael J Campbell]

Cats  

[Jo]

 

[annew]

CATS

[loes]

cats    www.catteryvanhetzaanenbos.nl

[David Nicholson]

Doesn't it make you want to spit-all these gorgeous pictures of the 'Snowies' on the Forum, nice and open and showing their little green marks to perfection. I just don't seem to be able to get them to open properly at all. Well here are a couple of mine from the garden today. Galanthus elwsii, the later of two forms that Arthur was kind enough to send me; and one of G. Lady Beatrix Stanley which I didn't keep a full note of so it may well have been Arthur, or indeed another kind Forumist who sent it to me.