Galanthus Autumn 2009

[mark smyth]

Very nice Hans. I would remove the brown tip from the virescent elwesii.

[Paddy Tobin]

Hans,

I am terribly envious -  not of the snowdrops but of the lovely bright sunshine and temperatures of 23^oC.

You seem to have a variable group of snowdrops. The second one has a larger than usual marking for G. elwesii monostictus, actually almost a completely green inner segment and also seems to have good length in the outer segments. The third one also has a big mark on the inner segment and also nice outer segment markings.

A nice group of snowdrops.

By the way, here in dull and wet Ireland, G. elw. monostictus has not even peeped above ground. How we wish for some sunlight.

Paddy -oh, I removed the little brown tip that was on the petal!

[Hans A.]

Thanks Mark and Paddy (especially for removing the brown tip )

Do not have a large snowdrop collection but some nice ones (mainly given by friends). By sowing (started last year) I hope to get some different and perhaps still better adapted plants for my local conditions.
 
Doubt it is a good consolation- but this morning we have only 8ºC - hope rain will stop and sun will shine for irish and the british members.

[KentGardener]

As I haven't posted a picture yet this season I thought I would take one of 'Hyde Lodge' before it goes over (Thanks once again to Martin who gave me this after I was sold an impostor by someone last year  ) (Sorry the picture isn't great - it is dull and miserable here today).

Within the next couple of weeks I should have 'Alex Duguid', 'Three Ships', 'Donald Sims Early' in flower - I'm starting to get excited already!  

[Maggi Young]

John, I'd especially like to see a photo of 'Alex Duguid' when "he" flowers, please.

He  was a famous grower and nurseryman who retired to Aberdeenshire. We have a lot of his gardening books... including his entire run of bound AGS bulletins  

[mark smyth]

My Hyde Lodge that was a tiny non flowering plant last year has a flower now. To my eye it's an ordinary reginae-olgae

[ashley]

oh, I removed the little brown tip that was on the petal!

117 views and counting: does this mean that cosmetic surgery is more popular than ...? 

[KentGardener]

Don't worry Ashley - it is a quirk of the forum software.  If a picture is large and needs to be expanded from its thumbnail to full size it adds to the 'view count' each time it is expanded.  If however a picture is small and cannot be expanded beyond the thumbnail it has its 'view count' add to each time the message is even read by someone because the image is already at full size.  Does that make sense?... 

So basically the Galanthus Autumn 2009 thread has been read 131 times (and counting) since the small image was added by Paddy - the number of views isn't because it doesn't have a brown tip to the flower.   

[ashley]

Thanks John.  Phew, no need for a new thread then

[KentGardener]

(Sorry Ashley - I think you knew that already.     )

Cosmetic surgery could be tricky - do you think tippex on the petals could work?   

 

[mark smyth]

I only suggested removing the brown tip because it could be a bit of Stagonspora

[art600]

John

I like 'Hyde Lodge' very much.  It is quite different from a lot of reginae-olgae where the petals are long and elegant, the shorter rounder petals are fine.

My 'Three Ships' has been out for a week 

[Maggi Young]

I only suggested removing the brown tip because it could be a bit of Stagonspora

 Yes, Mark.... which made me think at the time...
1)  is that sufficient to stop the spread if the infection was present?
2)I would worry that the larger wounded area caused by cutting off the brown area would be more prone to infection 

[mark smyth]

I pick brown bits off when I see them. Wether it helps or not I'm not sure

[KentGardener]

My 'Three Ships' has been out for a week

Hi Arthur,

My aunt in South East London phoned me a few days back to say her 'Three Ships' was flowering - which I thought was early by a few weeks!     Her 'Peter Gatehouse' is also well into bloom.

My 'Three Ships' will be earlier than last year - but not like yours and my aunt's flowering in November!