Galanthus February 2009

[Paddy Tobin]

Alan,

You really will have to take the snowdrops off that steroid feed. The side-effects are becoming alarming!

John, G. 'Federkleid' and 'Streifen-Weh' are both of German origin, Bavarian and Bohemian. This has been their first time flowering with me and they seem to be good plants, growing well and nicely marked.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

Margaret Owen has a three headed snowdrop - photo later

[Martin Baxendale]

Alan,

You really will have to take the snowdrops off that steroid feed. The side-effects are becoming alarming!

John, G. 'Fererkleid' and 'Streifen-Weh' are both of German origin, Bavarian and Bohemian. This has been their first time flowering with me and they seem to be good plants, growing well and nicely marked.

Paddy

Bohemia is (a very large) part of the Czech Republic. Admittedly a lot of Germans lived there prior to the Second World War, but definitely Czech Rep. not Germany.

[Paddy Tobin]

Martin,

My geography is obviously very suspect - as was reported once written on a child's school report under 'Geography': "This boy does well to find his way home."

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

Unless, of course, you mean that both snowdrops were found and named  by a German collector and came to you from Germany, Paddy, in which case ignore my comment (although I suppose it must be a little ambiguous for me to take it the way I did).

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin,

My geography is obviously very suspect - as was reported once written on a child's school report under 'Geography': "This boy does well to find his way home."

Paddy

 

[Maggi Young]

Unless, of course, you mean that both snowdrops were found and named  by a German collector and came to you from Germany, Paddy, in which case ignore my comment (although I suppose it must be a little ambiguous for me to take it the way I did).

Sorry, Folks,
Perhaps I have added to the confusion by referring to the  two "German" 'drops..... I just thought that there were two German names and I believed they had come via Germany...... and, as is well known, MY geography is SO bad that I don't get out much at all 

[Martin Baxendale]

Just a quick pic of a snowdrop I lifted from one of my seedling beds yesterday. It's a  cross made a few years ago between a plicatus seedling which had some light green lines on the tips and nivalis 'Virescens' (as the pollen parent).

I was hoping to get some virescent seedlings but so far no luck, just this plicatus X nivalis hybrid with a quite nice dark inner mark and green lines on the outer tips. I'd have thought the virescent genes from 'Virescens' might have more impact in the progeny, but apparently that's not a given. This was one of just three surviving seedlings, so hopefully some of my other plicatus X 'Virescens' crosses made in later years and yet to flower may be more successful.

It's still, I think, a nice snowdrop, tall with a strong flower stem and quite a large flower for the first year flowering (flowers of seedlings often get bigger in subsequent years). I'll certainly be chipping it.
 

[Paddy Tobin]

It's a nice arrangement of the markings on the outer segments.

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

It's a nice arrangement of the markings on the outer segments.

Paddy

I'm hoping they might get stronger as the bulb matures. It's amazing how much a snowdrop seedling can improve from its first flowering. I've planted out middling-looking seedlings in corners of the garden only to find them again years later looking stunning when settled in and clumped up.

[Maggi Young]

That is a clean, sturdy looking 'drop, Martin, nice one. 

What a nice surprise.... we've just had a phonecall from a friendly continental galanthophile, across visiting Scotland  ....how pleasant to be able to put a voice to the name and face...... Gerard and his wife are visiting President Ian 

[Paddy Tobin]

This is the tiniest little snowdrop. I have taken the photograph with my thumb and index finger holding the flower so as to give scale to the flower. As you can see it is only as big as my thumbnail.

G. 'Tinkelbell'

Paddy

[ichristie]

Hi all ,I post some pictures of a fairly large G. plicatus found recently it is beside G. Walrus and an ordinary G. nivalis, cheers Ian the Christie. kind

[galanthophile]

I have this tiny nivalis in a clump of similar sized blooms in flower now.

[Jo]

I love your green tipped seedling Martin, lets hope it makes a good garden plant and we all get a chance to grow it in the future 

Its funny how lots of the little, tiny snowdrops flower later. Quite good from a garden design point of view. As the big early elwesii's and plicatus hybrids go over the little nivalis types, planted in front, draw the gaze away from the snowdrops that are going over 

Here are a few of those weird and wonderful types that might distract the eye from fading beauties.
G 'Doncasters Double Charmer', G 'Boyd's Double', G 'Mrs Tiggywinkle' and G 'Luke'