Galanthus February 2010

[Brian Ellis]

I must admit that I am considering getting rid of it from my garden as it annoys me each year the way it flops everywhere!        Last year I moved it so that it was at the edge of a raised bed in the hope that it would fall gracefully over the edge - but nooooo.....  it flops ungracefully in the opposite direction. 

Joe said at the Blacksmith's talk that it needs to be in full sun and then it doesn't flop so much...so not much hope in your back garden under the tropicals John

[RichardW]

few from work today, a little sun finally had a few drops opening in the greenhouse, first open day tomorrow but everything still a long way behind..

snowdrop walk
snowdrop walk
a short early drop from Bill Baker's garden - Bill Baker's Early
Ketton.
Washfield Colesbourne.
a new aquisition this morning, Baylham, very nice, Thanks Steve  

[KentGardener]

Have you got some names for them Richard (it helps with searches in the future if the names are in the post as text  )

I am going to a couple of open gardens tomorrow - will be interesting to see what stage their flowers are at.  I think my garden will not look at its best for at least another week (maybe more  )

Your visitors tomorrow will have to spend more time eating cake and drinking tea. 

[Maggi Young]

Things are looking pretty good after the weather we've had , Richard, hope all goes well for the snowdrop season. This is the link to let you know about the open days:
http://www.beningtonlordship.co.uk/events/snowdrops.shtml

John is correct, Richard,having the names of the 'drops in the text is a great help; not only for the search engine but also for those of us who cannot make a guess as to the ID! 

[RichardW]

have added names to top of the post 

think it will be a good few weeks before the varieties are anything to look at, a few in the walled garden are starting to appear but even the very early like John Gray have yet to open, and the cold weather is set to return next week, will cry if it snows again 

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Richard.

We had a fair amount of snow left from last weekend but last night it started to rain and today it is all gone..... plants looking drowned now as well as flattened! They'll soon pick  up again, I'm sure  and I expect that further south, as you are, the season will soon catch up... well, that's what we have to tell ourselves, isn't it?!

[ArneM]

Paddy, glad to hear that they are doing well with you as yours are perfectly bulking up either. Year by year their clumps become bigger. Hopefully they will be as huge as yours one day.

Hagen, all the snow we had here is gone already. Will you be in Oirlich by the way?

[mark smyth]

I grow John Gray in a trough and raised bed. In the trough it's looking good. In the raised bed it comes up through a Helianthemum

[RichardW]

a few more from this pm, just wish we could have more days like today!

If anyone would like to visit outside of opening hours when it's a lot quieter   please let me know, is no problem to arrange but I would leave it a few weeks till there is more to see.

Elmley Lovett, has taken a very long time to settle in, very healthy little clump now.
gracilis "Highdown"
another from Bill Baker.
Daphne's Scissors
My assistant for the afternoon had a lovely time fishing worms out of leaf mould while I was planting.

[Paddy Tobin]

Richard,

Many thanks for a lovely selection; some perfectly beautiful snowdrops there. 'Daphne's Scissors' always strikes me as a very elegant snowdrops. Elmley Lovett is very nicely marked and 'Baylham' holds itself in a very attractive manner. A lovely selection and the mass plantings on the snowdrop walks are very attractive.

Paddy

[RichardW]

thanks Paddy,

hope the Diggory I sent a few seasons ago are doing ok.

Washfield Colesbourne is for me about as good as it gets, really is the most elegant & perfectly proportioned plant, am slowly trying to create a big drift of Mighty Atom & WC is next although it's much slower to bulk up, hopefully it'll be complete by the time I retire   

[Paddy Tobin]

I have been waiting for this snowdrop to flower for the last few weeks as I have seen photographs of it previously and was very kindly given a bulb last year. It has not been properly described and published as of yet and so not validly named.

It is a poculiform elwesii and is a delight.

Paddy

[annew]

It's a lovely thing, Paddy.
We still don't know why x allenii needs to be monitored? 

[mark smyth]

I'll wait until next year to see what this woronowii does. It's also very tall.

I was in a garden today and saw a woronowii that had the tallest scape and largest flower I have ever seen. The leaves were also very  maybe wide c4cm

[Alan_b]

A couple of shots of my cold frames, and a couple of shots of a pot of snowdrops marked 'Specials'.  Unfortunately I have no reference on the specials - I think I was given them last year by a friend.  Think they are elwesii - can someone confirm please.

I agree they are elwesii, with interesting shape and markings to the outers.  What do the inners look like?