Galanthus February 2009

[mark smyth]

Here are three lovely snowdrops that I saw this week.
'Chequers'
elwesii Ivy Cottage Green Tip
plicatus 'Wandlebury Ring'

[Maggi Young]

They're looking good in spite of the weather, Mark.
'Wandlebury Ring' looks nicer than other yellows I've seen, perhaps because it is less yellow? 

[Martin Baxendale]

Here are three lovely snowdrops that I saw this week.
'Chequers'
elwesii Ivy Cottage Green Tip
plicatus 'Wandlebury Ring'

Rats! I didn't try to order 'Wandlebury Ring' from Joe because I'd read it had narrow outers, but it looks very nice indeed in your photo, Mark. Now wish I had put it on the order.    Good breeding potential.

[johnw]

Here are three lovely snowdrops that I saw this week.

plicatus 'Wandlebury Ring'

What a stunner Mark!

johnw - oh, and a Happy Birthday to Felix Mendelssohn on his 200th, almost missed that one.

[Alan_b]

'Wandlebury Ring' looks nicer than other yellows I've seen, perhaps because it is less yellow? 

Ooh, that's a bit below the belt, Maggi.

A local nurseryman who knows about snowdrops told me that Wandlebury Ring is much less vigorous than its near-relative Wendy's Gold.  However maybe we can prove him wrong?  They have a nice clump at Glen Chantry, as I recall.

[mark smyth]

These were in a tunnel away from the snow. 'Wandlebury Ring' is a monster compared to 'Wendy's Gold' and maybe as tall as 'Atkinsii'. The green tipped elwesii is very nice and going to the Gala!

I saw 'Icicle' again for the second time in many years. Very nice snowdrop. 'Green Hayes' is another lovely snowdrop to look out for. There was also a nice round flowered broad leaved elwesii.

[art600]

I inherited a garden with a number of different snowdrops. 

Could anyone suggest a name for this - it was going over before I noticed it.  Leaves are now under snow, but I think it is an elwesii.

Thanks in advance

[art600]

I grew this pot of seedlings with a label marked peshmenii.  Clearly it is not and I think I should relabel as gracilis.  Am I correct?

[Martin Baxendale]

I grew this pot of seedlings with a label marked peshmenii.  Clearly it is not and I think I should relabel as gracilis.  Am I correct?

Looks like gracilis, but to be 100% sure you need to check the leaves. If they're wrapped around each other at the base then it's elwesii, if flat against each other at the base, like nivalis leaves, then it's gracilis. Can't quite see this detail in the photo.

[wolfgang vorig]

Hello,
thank you for the friendly reception in the forum.
Galanthus except I'm still Anemone nemerosa, alpine plantns, gentiana (spring and autumn flowered) and my wife Cypripediumand other orchids.
Unfortunately, I speak no english. Traslated by Google Translater!!!

Kind regard   wolfgang


Galanthus picturs from last year

[Tony Willis]

here are a couple of Galanthus elwesii. My g57 has a nice flower and G1 has produced flowers with only two petals. Is it stable? well both bulbs have produced two petaled flowers.

[Maggi Young]

here are a couple of Galanthus elwesii. My g57 has a nice flower and G1 has produced flowers with only two petals. Is it stable? well both bulbs have produced two petaled flowers.

Seems to me to be a symptom of widepread econimic situation, Tony.... a victim of cutbacks, obviously! 

[Maggi Young]

Hello,
thank you for the friendly reception in the forum.
Galanthus except I'm still Anemone nemerosa, alpine plantns, gentiana (spring and autumn flowered) and my wife Cypripedium and other orchids.
Unfortunately, I speak no english. Translated by Google Translater!!!

Kind regard   wolfgang


Galanthus pictures from last year

Kein Problem, das wir Sie verstehen können , Wolfgang.  Sie haben gute Blumen zu zeigen. Ich hoffe auch, dass ihre Frau finden Interesse an der Orchidee Seiten.

We have no trouble understanding you, Wolfgang. You have great flowers to show us. I hope that your wife will enjoy the Orchid pages of the Forum, also.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Tony, give G1 a few more flowerseasons. So you can find out, if it is stable. It`s notably, but it is pretty too? Because you have two flowering bulbs with the same outfit, it could be fix

[Tony Willis]

Hagen the flower is a bit squinny for my liking.

Maggi as long as you did not think I had pulled a petal of to make a galanthus look more interesting!