Galanthus winter 2009/2010

[mark smyth]

My Richard Ayres is tight in bud and maybe a week behing yours

[Paddy Tobin]

Paddy Benhall Beauty should look like this http://www.snowdropinfo.com/galanthus%20benhall%20beauty.html

I have a mix up in this bed = a small group of snowdrops with no label. I'll have to wait until this unlabelled clump flowers and see what I have. This is the first year I have had 'Benhall Beauty', received from Bob last spring. Hopefully, I will sort out names in the coming weeks.

Re your photograph of 'Benhall Beauty': I didn't realise the basal marks were so strong. I thought it had two separate, though sometimes merging, oval marks.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I found it a bit variable. All mine are non flowerers this year

[Martin Baxendale]

Benhall Beauty also tends to flop over, so a sheltered site out of strong winds,  and preferably one in full sun (to help stop the scapes getting too drawn up), is advisable.

[Paddy Tobin]

Benhall Beauty also tends to flop over, so a sheltered site out of strong winds,  and preferably one in full sun (to help stop the scapes getting too drawn up), is advisable.

Ah, Martin, you sound like an encyclopaedia of gardening with the advice to choose a well-draining and moisture-retaining soil. You advise a sheltered spot in the sun which is another difficult one to find.

I will do my best.

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

Sorry, Paddy. I wrote freelance articles for gardening magazines like Amateur Gardening and Practical Gardening for a few years back in the 1980s, and the glib advice still comes like second nature to me. Here's another good one - base of a sunny wall would be ideal (how I wish I had such a thing in my garden!)   

[johnw]

Galanthus Lord Lieutenant in flower here a few days ago.  It's a perky fellow from Colesbourne.  I must say their bulbs are clean as a whistle and always shipped dormant, the way to go it would seem for Canada.

The SRGC seeds arrived today.  Many thanks to the packing crew.

johnw

[TheOnionMan]

PS: I have contacted McMark to reassure him about the Galanthospecs.
Those wacky spectacle frames are fun: they didn't have any like that last week when I got new glasses 

Ok, I'm ready, got my new starry-eyed galanthospecs on!  Hope they're the right perscription 

[KentGardener]

Thanks for posting the pictures Paddy - I guess it is my turn to post a few snaps I took here yesterday.

plicatus Bill Clarke
elwesii Maidwell L
plicatus Yaffle
John Gray (just waiting for a warm day top burst open).
And a little green tipped drop that I spotted in the Greatorex woods and was given as a gift to remember my visit there.   


John - my Lord Lieutenant seems to get smaller each year - I don't think it likes my garden.   

[Paddy Tobin]

All looking well, John.

The green-tipped one from the Greatorex woods is a nice addition.

Paddy

[annew]

Why is Maidwell L not Maidwell X 

[KentGardener]

Why is Maidwell L not Maidwell X 

and why were there 2 Maidwell L's - one plicatus and one elwesii!  Fortunately the plicatus is now Maidwell C (and can also have a vague X mark  )

[Brian Ellis]

Here is an old picture of Maidwell C Anne

[KentGardener]

One from today

'Hans Guck In Die Luft' (Hans looks into the air)

I only got this last March as a birthday present from Hans himself - and it already looks to be a very good "do'er"  

[Paddy Tobin]

It doesn't look a bit like Hans!

Paddy