Galanthus January 2009

[KentGardener]

....finally my sandersii with extra petals. All three that have opened have four petals.

Hi Jo

I have just spotted the picture of your 4 petal sandersii - very nice.  I have a couple of 4 petal normal nivalis that came from a friends garden in Hampshire - it is nice to know that this phenomena can happen in the yellows too. 

Thanks for showing the picture.

John

[günter]

Meine erste Blüte von " Ecusson d`or", bin sehr begeistert von der guten Farbe.
Ich hoffe das Euer PC meine Zeilen übersetzt.

Günter

My first bloom  of 'Ecusson d'or'  I am very excited about the good color....
I hope that your PC shows the colour in the same way as mine.

[KentGardener]

Meine erste Blüte von " Ecusson d`or", bin sehr begeistert von der guten Farbe.
Ich hoffe das Euer PC meine Zeilen übersetzt.

Günter

Thank you Günter for showing us your first flower on Ecusson d'or.  Your plant is showing such a good colour of yellow.  can I ask, do you grow it in a pot or in the ground?

Kind regards

John

[Jo]

....finally my sandersii with extra petals. All three that have opened have four petals.

Hi Jo

I have just spotted the picture of your 4 petal sandersii - very nice.  I have a couple of 4 petal normal nivalis that came from a friends garden in Hampshire - it is nice to know that this phenomena can happen in the yellows too. 

Thanks for showing the picture.


John

Hi John,   they were normal last year so I guess they can change from year to year.

[Jo]

Ecusson'd'or certainly is a pretty thing.

Lovely pictures Paddy. Someone has been working very hard in your garden putting out mulch and dividing out drops into beautiful neat drifts

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks for posting some super pictures Paddy, you seem way ahead of us in blooming time.

Günter your Ecusson d'Or looks a beautiful yellow, what a joy

[günter]

Meine erste Blüte von " Ecusson d`or", bin sehr begeistert von der guten Farbe.
Ich hoffe das Euer PC meine Zeilen übersetzt.

Günter

Thank you Günter for showing us your first flower on Ecusson d'or.  Your plant is showing such a good colour of yellow.  can I ask, do you grow it in a pot or in the ground?

Kind regards

John

im ersten Jahr lasse ich sie im Topf und halte sie getrennt von den anderen Schneeglöckchen. Danach kommen sie in die Erde

Lg
Günter

[Gerdk]

im ersten Jahr lasse ich sie im Topf und halte sie getrennt von den anderen Schneeglöckchen. Danach kommen sie in die Erde
Lg
Günter

Transl.: The first year I keep it in a pot and separated from the others. After that it will be planted outside (in the soil).
Regards

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Gerd.

[art600]

Günter

Sie sind sehr mutig sein, um Risiken ausgesetzt sind, wie eine wunderbare Schneeglöckchen in der Erde

You are very brave to risk such a wonderful snowdrop in the earth.

[ashley]

Very nice Paddy.  My resolve weakens with (almost) every picture

So far however my snowdrop ambitions are pitiably limited : to find something with good form and a strong, extensive green inner that's also vigorous in my damp alluvial soil.

Do you grow straight elwesii and if so how does it perform under your conditions?

[Paddy Tobin]

Ashley,

My experience with G. elwesii - the straight species - has been very poor. I have, on a few occasions, purchases pots of them in garden centres at the end of the season when they were being sold off cheaply and planted them out but found they dwindled very quickly after the first year. The G.elwesii cultivars/hybrids have the benefit of what is generally referred to as 'hybrid vigour' and these have always done much better. G. elwesii purchased in garden centres are also very variable, a great selection of markings etc and while some can seem interesting they do not have the vigour to do well in the garden. I don't bother with them any more.

Jo, yes, I split a few clumps last year so as to make bigger spreads of snowdrops which give, I believe, a far better appearance than the small spot plantings of many cultivars. I intend to continue this at the end of this season to create more drifts which I prefer and which give a better effect in the garden.

Brian, the snowdrops made great strides when the harsh conditions which prevailed over Christmas and early January eased. The trouble with them now is that many are very dirty from rain splashing.

Gunter, great to see you posting and your G. 'Eccuson d'Or' looks very well, certainly the best yellow I recall being posted.

Apologies to Maggi for not posting the names of the snowdrops in a list before the pictures - I did mean to come back to that as I posted the photographs around 6 a.m. this morning.

Paddy

[KentGardener]

Paddy - I have just been in the garden.  I would say your drops are at least 2 weeks ahead of mine.    They look so happy in your garden and all seem to be increasing at a rate of knots!  I remember you posting a couple of years ago about how many S Arnotts you had because you had counted them.  Looking at the photographs now I think they are in numbers too great to count!  

I always think Wendys Gold looks lovely.

John

[Hagen Engelmann]

Paddy, thank you for the firework of Snowdropics. You have a good time now. Our time will come in 3-4 weeks.
Günter, ein Topfoto von einem Spitzenschneeglöckchen!!! Hier blühen gerademan erste Elwesen.

[ichristie]

Hi to everyone and thanks for the super pictures. I find that the leaves of snowdrops most interesting and this is one thing which is missing from the books. The first thing I notice is the leaf shape and if you look close you can see espciall hybrids betwee G. nivalis and G. plicatus the hybrids have a fold on the back of the leaf as shown in the pictures I now post along with different G. plicatus. I have also observed that Hybid plants plicatus x nivalis will often have two flower spikes as picture. cheers Ian the Christie kind