Galanthus April 2009

[Alan_b]

In a nearby snowdrop wood there are just an odd one or two nivalis still in flower.  Have these been delayed by some random set of adverse circumstances or would they come back late every year?  The photograph was taken on 1st April but it is genuine.

[loes]

in my garden the last to flower was Trym.just over yesterday.it was planted this summer so it could normally be earlier in flower.
galanthus 'Flore Pleno'has been over for weeks now but I have several first year flowering shoots in flower now.never noticed that before,that the new shoots flower so much later than the mature bulbs.

[KentGardener]

The very last in my garden is 'danube star' - just going over now. 

John

[Anthony Darby]

Galanthus platyphyllus in the garden today. Has anyone flowered the one sold by Paul Christian?

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Anthony... and no, it was not!

[Anthony Darby]

That might explain why it is no longer on his list?

[Maggi Young]

That might explain why it is no longer on his list?

It might. 

[Alan_b]

Wandering around the Cambridge College Backs the other day I came across some alliums (I presume) that were quite reminiscent of snowdrops, with single white pendulous flowers.  I would quite like to get some.  Can anybody put a name to my description?

[Anthony Darby]

Perhaps the three-cornered allium (Allium triquetrum)? http://www.floralimages.co.uk/palliutriqu.htm

[Alan_b]

Perhaps the three-cornered allium (Allium triquetrum/i])? http://www.floralimages.co.uk/palliutriqu.htm

I don't think so.  The one I admired only had one flower per scape. 

[Maggi Young]

Alan, we saw the very same allium in Edinburgh last weekend.......only one flower, quite small, on a stem about 15 to 20cms high.........we couldn't think what it was called either!!     Some one will surely help us out......

[johnw]

It's not over just yet. Here is a Galanthus nivalis fix from Nova Scotia.  I visited a friend's garden today; I think it is time for her to do some dividing and replanting. She's getting quite keen on snowdrops (she says it was a string of articles in The Telegraph) and actually discovered a green tipped Poculiformis elwesii (based on her notes and line drawinga) in Frampton Port in Dorchester, England this past February.  If anyone next Spring is nearby and would like to check it out to see if it is worth collecting please drop me a PM.

Wave one.

johnw

[johnw]

Wave two and one different clump of doubles.

The planting is 30 years old from 1 dozen each of single and double nivalis and they are popping up everywhere, most intensely at the base of line of struggling shrubs in low damp ground.

Today (Friday that is, with the time difference) I will be visiting the big snowdrop drifts near Digby, NS.  Hopefully some pictures if the sun co-operates.

Quite amazing how many bulbs are sitting on the soil's surface and still are able to survive the winter to flower.

johnw

[KentGardener]

Thanks John - the cold Turkey is subsiding.....

Can't wait for my next fix.

John

[Alan_b]

....and actually discovered a green tipped Poculiformis elwesii (based on her notes and line drawinga) in Frampton Port in Dorchester, England this past February.  If anyone next Spring is nearby and would like to check it out to see if it is worth collecting please drop me a PM.....

johnw

I hate to pour cold water on this idea but something that looks like a snowdrop but has six green-tipped petals, all of a similar length, would be an apt description of a snowflake (leucojum).