Galanthus February 2010

[mark smyth]

How can someone have so many Godfrey Owen so quickly?!

[KentGardener]

How can someone have so many Godfrey Owen so quickly?!

Maybe it likes certain gardens?  It certainly seems happy here.   

[Maggi Young]

How can someone have so many Godfrey Owen so quickly?!

How quickly is quickly ? .... found  circa 1996, shown to the wider 'drop world in 2001 ..that's ten years of growth for anyone who had it early...... I'd want a clump at least that size in the time!

[johnw]

How can someone have so many Godfrey Owen so quickly?!

More to the point... How can someone have Godfrey Owen!   

johnw

[ian mcenery]

Ian, thanks for the pictures.  Personally I think 'Godfrey Owen' is such a good do'er - I really can't understand the price it is still asking.    I have a nice clump in a few short years and have still managed to give 3 away this year.  

I wasn't going to post these pictures as they are not great - but I am just home from work and it is miserable and wet with some hail and sleet thrown in for good measure.    So here are a few snaps from the wonderfully sunny day in the garden yesterday.

1 - 'Finchale Abbey' (again) - really opened up in the sun.  And if you can see it... the second from the right has 4 outer petals as an added interest.  I hope it doesn't do it again as the 3 petal version is just about perfection in my mind.  

2 - 'Angelique' - not really looking right - but increasing well.

3 - 'Nothing Special' - a lovely looking snowdrop.

John Like the Nothing Special. I would disagree with the description  it's a very nice plant here is a picture from a friends garden last year

Smashing clump of Daglingworth, probably the best I've ever seen. I've used it in the past for breeding, with excellent results, but lost my only two bulbs to narcissus fly a long time ago - never got around to chipping them as I needed the flowers for pollen. Anyone know where you can buy it these days? Ron Mackenzie hasn't offered it for a while. Would probably have found a bulb at the gala but I was stuck signing books and didn't get a good look around.  

Martin Daglinworth really caught my eye too

[Paddy Tobin]

Ian,

A wonderful garden - the last photographs shows an fabulous spring planting, even Cornus mas, I think. in flower already while it is only just breaking bud here in the sunny south-east of Ireland.

The snowdrops are simply wonderful, good snowdrops in great clumps, the way to show them off at their best.

Good snowdrops, John; couldn't complain too much about 'Angelique'.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

Ian,

A wonderful garden - the last photographs shows an fabulous spring planting, even Cornus mas, I think. in flower already while it is only just breaking bud here in the sunny south-east of Ireland.

The snowdrops are simply wonderful, good snowdrops in great clumps, the way to show them off at their best.

Good snowdrops, John; couldn't complain too much about 'Angelique'.

Paddy

Paddy The shrub was a small Hamamellis but I it is difficult to see the detail

[Martin Baxendale]

Ruth Birchall, who found the original naturalised colony of 'Daglingworth' in Gloucestershire, told me it is definitely variable, as it was a seeding colony. Good forms were selected, but out of those good forms there were no doubt one or two that, when grown on in gardens, proved better than others. She offered me a bulb but I declined as I'd just ordered it from Ron Mackenzie. Probably stupid of me with hindsight, as she'd have been sure to have picked a particularly good form for herself. I don't think we'd talked about its variability at that point. If we had, I think I'd probably have accepted the gift. Oh well, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

[mark smyth]

yes I suppose one bought ten years ago could be in double figures by now.

Brocklamont Seedling from Margaret Glynn's garden - nivalis x plicatus but no plicatus present back then
elwesii Penelope Ann lying down due to over night frost
small elwesii continuing to be small
one of the snowdrops from Bowles garden again

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin - I have to agree with you that this is a really smashing clump of 'Daglingworth', not something I have ever seen before. I owe you for the 'Tuesday's Child' that you sent me last September - if you send me a pm with your address, I will send you a bulb of 'Daglingworth' when dormant.

I'll p.m. you, Chris. Thanks.

[ian mcenery]

Just peeking through the snow as it melts under the trees Mighty Atom. At present 3 inches high with a 2inch flower

[Martin Baxendale]

How can someone have so many Godfrey Owen so quickly?!

Godfrey Owen clumps up quite fast for me.

[daveyp1970]

my favourite snowdrop in my garden at the moment and i think my nicest G.woronowii i love how the flowers hang down.It's a common snowdrop but i love it.

[mark smyth]

Davey it looks very drawn and pale

[daveyp1970]

Mark this plant come from a south raised sort of bulb frame its only in my greenhouse because i lifted the clump to put it in my new garden this is my other clump.This is how the flower looks all the time well the four years i've had it,i'll take a pic next year in its new spot.