Galanthus February 2009

[galanthophile]

They look pretty good to me!

[loes]

Hi Gerard,

you didn`t have 'Green Brush' at your gala,at least I didn`t see it?

[galanthophile]

Thanks for the info on Lady E. I will just label it as unknown double! I've bought a few named varieties to find they were something else but I reckon everyone will have experienced that as some time or another!

[RichardW]

I have all sorts of swaps/buys that I compare with others and don't look right, but maybe theirs are wrong 

they all look nice, whatever the name.

[art600]

Rob

Wonderful shots of your snowdrops.     Much better than I have managed.

[Gerard Oud]

No Loes i did not but maybe next year!

[Maggi Young]

Last night I hastily printed out photos of the poculiform green tipped Leucojum lookalike that Diane posted the other day.... I wanted to be able to show it to some ofthe 'Drop Fiends who might not have seen it on the forum ( I know Wol has registered but they're having trouble seeing the pix apparantly)...... Rod Leeds and Wol and Sue Staines were blown away by it.... they were seriously impressed, I tell you .... there was mega enthusiasm for that snowdrop, Diane!!
 I'll re-post the pix here, to save anyone scurrying back a couple of pages (to page 26 ) to see them.....this is a REALLY DIFFERENT SNOWDROP and I have to say it's the first one which has set my heart fluttering......

 Diane, you and your friend are on to a winner here!!

[Anthony Darby]

Last night I hastily printed out photos of the poculiform green tipped Leucojum lookalike that Diane posted the other day.... I wanted to be able to show it to some ofthe 'Drop Fiends who might not have seen it on the forum ( I know Wol has registered but they're having trouble seeing the pix apparantly)...... Rod Leeds and Wol and Sue Staines were blown away by it.... they were seriously impressed, I tell you .... there was mega enthusiasm for that snowdrop, Diane!!
 I'll re-post the pix here, to save anyone scurrying back a couple of pages (to page 26 ) to see them.....this is a REALLY DIFFERENT SNOWDROP and I have to say it's the first one which has set my heart fluttering......

 Diane, you and your friend are on to a winner here!!

I totally agree. I described it to Wol, before he realised I was talking about the one in your pics Maggi. I do hope it can be bulked up and given a worthy name. I, for one, will be joining the end of the queue should it become available to enthusiastic amateurs like me.

[art600]

Here is my 'different' Lady Beatrix stanley

[KentGardener]

a drop i found last year,any opinions

Emma

I seem to have missed this post - luckily Maggie has sent me back to page 26 and I spotted your post.

I love it.   

John

[art600]

I have a potful of 'normal' Lady Beatrix Stanley', but this one was potted up separately - for no known reason - and had mutated.  Inners are quite regular.

Hope it is stable and I will then chip 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Rob, not DIGGORY but a G. elwesii with slightly waved edges and puckered outers.

[Brian Ellis]

That is certainly different Hagen!

Rob, G.Swanton in kentgardeners pictures is a Diggory cross I believe

[KentGardener]

Hagen

very interesting.  Can it ever lift it's outers in the warmth? 

I ask the question because it has that look of a man who has done too much weight training at the gym, with steroids involved, and then can not put his arms in to a natural position!    

It is like the male pumped up version of Pat Mason to the extreme.

Kind regards

John

[Maggi Young]

G. Swanton in kentgardeners pictures is a Diggory cross I believe

 I suspected that. I quite like the seersucker material look 
 Hagen's is sturdy..... carved from thick royal icing .... nice!