Galanthus February 2009

[Hristo]

Hi John,thanks for the advice, I will perhaps collect a mix of seed to see if anything interesting turns up when grown on.
Have posted up close up of other elwesii flower in the garden.
Have one that produces flowers twice the size of all the other plants!

[ichristie]

Hi all, we have had a great weekend looking at snowdrops with a bus load of friends from Holland i post two pictures of find from Sunday, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[mark smyth]

Ian your second photo is G. plicatus byzantinus

[Alan_b]

Ian your second photo is G. plicatus byzantinus

Whilst the first, judging by the mark on the inner petals, is a nivalis (with 5 outer petals!).  So perhaps thats two pictures of two finds?

[annew]

Rob has got me being paranoid about virus now. This is faint streaking on the Trymlet I bought at Loughborough. What's the verdict? If I bought the plant 'as seen' (like they say when buying a used car) do I have any claim on the nursery for a replacement?

[ichristie]

Hi Mark , yes i did think that but according to the books these are supposed to come from a different location to other G. plicatus I am sure these are hybrid seedlings like the next  picture,.I also post anothe very samll 4inch high G. plicatus Little Emma a selection from the Castle group which was awarded a P.C at Dunblane on Saturday. ( Emma is my graddaughter) cheers Ian the Christie kind

[mark smyth]

Which is which, Ian?

[ichristie]

Hi Mark, the first picture is a hybrid swarm the second is Little Emma. but just to copnfuse things here is another picture cheers Ian.

[ichristie]

Hi again, another two odd finds plus three pictures of our Dutch friends cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[David Nicholson]

Here are a couple of mine now looking as though they are settled in my bulb bed. Galanthus 'Hippolyta' and G. nivalis 'Lady Elphinstone'. Does my Lady E look a little bit 'ragged' or this normal?

[mark smyth]

I just spent a few hours editing the photos I took while away last weekend. To start you off I'm showing some really exciting hybrids between gracilis and 'Trym'. gracilis is the seed parent. Martin time to get you fiddling stick out! In this case honey bees have done the hard work

[mark smyth]

and one more. I've forgotten if it's elwesii 'Mary Biddulph' or 'Margaret Biddulph'

[Martin Baxendale]

and one more. I've forgotten if it's elwesii 'Mary Biddulph' or 'Margaret Biddulph'

It's 'Margaret Biddulph'. And very nice it is too.

[Martin Baxendale]

some really exciting hybrids between gracilis and 'Trym'. gracilis is the seed parent. Martin time to get your fiddling stick out!

I have some 'Trym' hybrids in the pipeline, made using different pollen parents. Only two 'Trym' flowers to work with this year and already crossed those. I need to move and feed my 'Trym' to get them all back up to flowering size. I think making them set seed year after year can sap their energies a bit if the growing conditions aren't perfect, and on my very dry south-facing slope conditions can be far from ideal.   

[Martin Baxendale]

I like the way the edges of the outer petals turn up on some of those gracilis X 'Trym' hybrids. I've seen the same effect on some of my elwesii X plicatus crosses.