Galanthus anomalies- "wrong" flowers

[Maggi Young]

Fab, Jennie! Lovely photos - something neat about the green and white inners, isn't there?

[Brian Ellis]

Brian

what is a Drop oholic
in Dutch translated it is liquorice oholic
but what has it to do with snowdrops
or are you dreaming from a black snowdrop
as I saw somebody dreamt of a orange snowdrop

Roland

"Alcoholic" = a person addicted to alcohol
"Dropoholic" = a person addicted to snowDROPS

Paddy

Thanks for your explanation Paddy, I don't know how I got that soubriquet 

[Paddy Tobin]

OK Jennie, you have mastered the photography and resizing of photographs so we can look forward to more and more photographs from you.

Hopefully, your yellow snowdrops will come again next year and the years after as they would be an interesting addition to the garden.



Brian, you are simply a lost case, dropaholic and lattice pot maniac and then, when you get the snowdrops, you cut them up into little pieces. Nuts.

Paddy

[bulborum]

Maggie

this is why I love the little program Tiny Pick
no hours learning and surging but simple
open program select size bring picture in pop up
ready

Roland

[bulborum]

some of my anomalies

I think my Walrus looks very similar as the one from Mark
maybe the same source in Holland

Roland

[mark smyth]

That Viridapice has an excellent green mark. Is your plants always this colour?

[bulborum]

From this "walrus" I have only 3 plants and this is the colour
but the form of other G.viridapice is sometimes a little paler
I made some pictures but post it later
Battery of the camera is empty

And I saw that the name walrus was taken already
see picture

Roland

[bulborum]

Battery is full again

Roland

[mark smyth]

I think your nivalis  Viridapice includes some nivalis Warei. Warei have very large spathes

[bulborum]

Maybe I bought 2000 leftovers from the wholesale
you can see the difference from the 2 boxes

Roland

[johnw]

Roland  - Great patches of nivalis Viridapice, that's a very sandy mix you have them in. Can you tell us more about it?

johnw

[bulborum]

I was just running out of grit
that's all

Roland

[bulborum]

Just a tiny flowering G.elwesii var.monostictus which I just found
in between the normal ones

Roland

[Brian Ellis]

Here are some pictures from one clump of galanthus, I can't remember where I got the original bulb or who from, but as it has increased there are more and more of them with anomalies!  Some have four outers, some three and a half inners

[Paddy Tobin]

Brian,

It's not G. 'James Backhouse' by any chance? The first photograph certainly looks like 'Atkinsii' and 'James Backhouse' is a form of 'Atkinsii' which throws aberrant flowers.

Paddy