lagodechianus and rizehensis

[Tony Willis]

Maggi

please do not bother unless  it is raining in Aberdeen and you are bored!

I feel like some anorak for having even noticed it but then although I pretend not to care I am as obsessive a person as you could find when it comes to mistakes in the newspaper.

[Maggi Young]

I get ratty about mistakes inthe "ticker-tape-like" banners that scroll across the foot of the screen in some TV news programmes .... hell, I am just ratty.....but I don't care.... everyone needs a good indoor pastime.....

[johnw]

---I  am slowly learning not to attempt to grow anything I cannot spell

Maggi

I bet you grow Molly the Witch.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Sure, nothing difficult about writing Molly the Witch!  See, I just did...

[Anthony Darby]

I have drunk tea in Rize which is hot and humid and certainly has no snowdrops growing along its corniche.

I have a pot of Galanthus rizehensis seedlings from seed of plants from Mt. Rize.

[Tony Willis]

I have drunk tea in Rize which is hot and humid and certainly has no snowdrops growing along its corniche.

I have a pot of Galanthus rizehensis seedlings from seed collected on Mt. Rize.

I can be reasonably certain,but of course not absolutely, that they were not growing amongst the tea plantations.

[johnw]

I have drunk tea in Rize which is hot and humid and certainly has no snowdrops growing along its corniche.

I have a pot of Galanthus rizehensis seedlings from seed collected on Mt. Rize.

Anthony, Tony et al - Where is everyone buying such interesting cw Galanthus seed?

johnw - spitting snow here but going to +10c overnight.

[Anthony Darby]

Who said anything about buying John? I was sent these and other seeds by a friend who has them growing in his garden.

Avon bulbs say this of Galanthus rizehensis: "Found around the Black Sea in higher rainfall forests of N E Turkey and Georgia from sea level and into the mountains. It is smaller, both in stature and flower but increases and can set seed thus spreading". Rize province is in N E Turkey on the Black Sea coast.

[Tony Willis]

John,my rizehensis seed was from a mountain to the west of Rize near Unye. It was growing with a very nice mixed selection of crosses between Primula vulgaris with yellow flowers and purple ssp sibthorpii. Also a very nice dentaria which I am sorry to say has since died .