Merry Christmas, Snowdrop-lovers!!!!

[Oakwood]

Dear Plant-Collegues and Forum-Members! 

Let me wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from UKRAINE!
To remain in the new year and beyond quiet and serene in our white-fever passion, to have peace and tranquility home and garden without asking unnecessary question "What a snowdrop do I have in fact?"
the World Commission on Snowdrops and Related Mental Illness (WCSRMI) (with a headquarters in Schneeglöckchenhauptstadt, Österreich-Ungarn) released a position Statement:
from the 1st January 2010 all known and unknown species of Genus Galanthus should be treated as the following three well-defined species, that even child was able to easily identify any snowdrop in the world!
So, they are:

Galantus applanatus WCSRMI, 2010

Galantus explicativus WCSRMI, 2010

Galantus supervolutus WCSRMI, 2010

Mery Merry Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!      

[dominique]

Merry christmas too Dimitri and thank you for your humour. I hope all the best for you and Ukrainia
Dom

[Oakwood]

Merci, Dom! Actuelle+ on s'est perdu a cause de soutenance de ma these )) J'espere on renouvelle nos ecritures

[vivienr]

Good idea, Dimitri . My (probably) hybrid snowdrop now has a name

Happy Christmas to snowdrop lovers everywhere from me and my little green-and-white friends.
(They are not as unhappy as they look - they have spent the week on my kitchen window!)

Safe travels over the snowdrop visiting season and successful sowing, splitting, scaling etc.

[KentGardener]

Merry Christmas Dimitri.   

[Oakwood]

John, Vivienr, THANKS!!!!!!!!!

[Paddy Tobin]

Dimitri,

Your solution to snowdrop naming suits my limited powers of discernment perfectly. I shall employ it vigorously.

Recently, while reading a set of magazines from 1870 - 1920, I found that all discussions of newly introduced snowdrops initially described them as variants of Galanthus nivalis. It was a simple approach and served its purpose at the time.

Paddy

[Oakwood]

Paddy! thanks for support  remains to find those who will say it to Aaron Davis!!!
And Paddy, all new - is well forgotten old!

[art600]

Dimitri

What can I swap with you - I haven't got Galantus applanatus WCSRMI, 2010, Galantus explicativus WCSRMI, 2010, and
Galantus supervolutus WCSRMI, 2010 in my collection     

I wish you well in 2010.  Let us hope your neighbour keeps the gas flowing and everyone can keep warm.

Arthur

[Oakwood]

Thanks Art! Of course, the gaz will flow cause I'm Russian and my latter name is ZubOV. And my Russian comrades don't leave their Russians from Malorossia with no gaz, so it means you still keep warm too, neigbours! 

[mark smyth]

may you have a great snowdrop seaon

[Gerard Oud]

Merry Christmas and a jolly good snowdropseason to all!

Dima were is the snow?

And what kind of name can i give this poor one?

[Brian Ellis]

Seasons greetings to you and to your family Dimitri, your suggestion will make labelling so much easier

[Oakwood]

Well done, Mark! ) many thanks!!

Gerard, thank you! It's pics from last spring, but now at me there is a lot of snow - any vegetation seen - it's very good!!! And very nice pic of. G. supervolutus you posted - the typical exemplar 

Thanks, Brian! At least we will quiet and serene that there are only three species!!!!

[Paul T]

may you have a great snowdrop seaon

Mark,

Wow, what a find.  Are the petal markings consistent from year to year?  If it were growing in a German garden would the letters stay in English?  And with the red pigment in the petals, surely a blood red Galanthus can't be far off? 

No Snowdrops here for Christmas of course, but there are Dahlias, Liliums, Elisena, Calibrachoa, Salvia, Grevilleas, Arisaema, Cannas, Zantedeschia, Alstroemeria, Cyclamen, Linaria, Zauschneria, Verbena, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Waterlilies, Lotus, Verbascum, Ericas, Nemesias and more, so I am not terribly upset.