Galanthus winter 2009/2010

[KentGardener]

I was just thinking the same 

Ebay Picture of Galadriel


My picture of Wishbone

[Paddy Tobin]

Same plant - different names?

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I have never seen Wishbone is it in the book? Galadrial diesnt seem to have the upper shading that is in Brian's photo but absent in John's

[mark smyth]

Is Wishbone plicate? Galadrial is elwesii

[Brian Ellis]

Sorry Mark, I can't tell from my original photo, perhaps one of the others can?

[mark smyth]

Maybe you have a wider original photo or did you take the photo that close. Was it in Ann's garden?

[Brian Ellis]

As I said that was my original photo.

[Warren Desmond]

Hello All
I have spent the last couple of days reading through the earlier posts and found it fascinating  ... some cracking Galanthus images as well..
I am only in my 4 th year of growing Galanthus and enjoy doing so...currently having Magnet,John Gray,Wendy's Gold,Sophie North,Comet
most of mine are in pots...and feel I may have made a mistake doing so according to snippets I have picked up elsewhere..!! May I ask what preference would some of the forum members use..Pots or In the garden..??
Apologies if this topic has been covered by previous posts (I couldn't find it)

Thanks

Warren

[mark smyth]

Hi Warren

When I buy a new snowdrop/s and the flower is over I keep the snowdrop/s in a 1L long tom. This allows me to get a good photo the following year. All other snowdrops except twinscales are in the garden or troughs

[Paddy Tobin]

Warren,

Good to have you on the forum and hope you enjoy it and contribute regularly during the season.

Personally, I grow all snowdrops in the open garden. Some certainly benefit from a raised bed situation to help with drainage or to give some extra heat. Some, of mine, might do better in a pot and under protection but I do not enjoy pot culture and persevere with growing in the open. Most snowdrops are very obliging and easy growing and will do well in the garden. Certainly, all those you mention above will do very well in the garden.

Paddy

[Jo]

Hi Warren,

I agree with Mark, snowdrops like being in the garden and are less at risk of rots, being frozen,etc.  Its just that in the garden its easy to lose sight of them during the summer and then put something else on top  

I try to stick to a rule of special snowdrops being planted 12 inches from the edge of the beds and herbaceous no closer than 18 inches.  Then you just have to keep the herbaceous from spreading.   A good dollop of sharp grit on top of each snowdrop as it dies back helps mark them.  

Mind you, they like being cosseted in large plastic long toms with gritty loam , in an alpine house.  

Actually,  I don't think there's a definative answer.  Just do what you enjoy most  

[chasw]

Hi Warren and welcome,I do have some snowdrops in pots,mainly ones that I have plenty of,to make room in the garden for others,and I find that they do reasonably well,although the ones in pots I keep on the shadier side of the grden,my thinking that the pots do not dry out too quickly in the summer

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Warren, a warm welcome to you.

As you  may have gathered from reading these pages, I have a very healthy scepticism for the cult of snowdrop worship..... but some of my dearest friends grow the things, so I might be permitted a comment....! 

Sandy Leven ( who has less time to spent in the Forum than in the past and who is therefore not likely to be around to answer your query himself) grows a great many snordrops.... all of them  in pots. If you look at photos in the Forum from SRGC  Early Bulb Day Displays, you will see ranks of pots of Sandy's plants... all looking very happy and healthy. Sandy lives in Dunblane , in central Scotland and I think some of his 'drops live in a cold frame..... must check on that...... point is that they can be grown successfully in pots as well as in the ground....so yes, the choice is yours 

[Anthony Darby]

Sandy's pots, those not in the coldframe, should have been Ok this year as they would have been under 8" of snow which is only now thawing.

[Diane Clement]

Hi Warren and welcome to the forum.  Can't manage a warm one, as it's been snowing here all day.  
I grow almost all my snowdrops in pots - although I do have a few in the garden and last year put in a few more.  

They do well for me in pots, (I've never had Stag or narcissus fly, probably tempting fate by saying that) whereas in the garden, I find that clumps sometimes are dug up by squirrels or mice.  One of the main reasons for growing them in pots is that I can appreciate them better in the winter from the shelter of the alpine house and if I put them in the garden I'm not sure I'd be able to tell some of them apart