Galanthus March 2010

[Gerard Oud]

Anthony :

Not "Isle" .....the name is ILSE ( I think from Elizabeth)

 

Thanks. I've changed it Hans. I quite often mix up letters when I type.

Youre not the only one Anthony, me too

[Paddy Tobin]

Lovely snowdrop, Gerard - 'Ilse Bilse'.

An attempt at a translations of Hans' rhyme:

Ilse Bilse,
Nobody liked her.
Along came the cook
And away he took her.
He opened the oven
And pushed her in;
And that was the end
of Ilse Bilse.


Paddy

[KentGardener]

Is the picture of G. daglingworth from Warren page 1 the same as from Kent page 3
they look different

Roland

I see what you mean Roland - the bottom mark does seem to be joined in my photo rather than broken.  I've checked over the original pictures I took (it's not my garden) and the label definitely says 'Daglingworth'.  Does anyone else who grows it know if the bottom mark is sometimes joined up?

[Hagen Engelmann]

ILSE BILSE
...
...
nur der Koch nahm`se doch
weil sie gut nach Knoblauch roch

[Paddy Tobin]

ILSE BILSE
...
...
nur der Koch nahm`se doch
weil sie gut nach Knoblauch roch

Hagen,

You have most peculiar taste in  women. I keep such flavouring for my food.

Have the German snowdrops begun flowering yet? I have been waiting to see yours and Hans' photographs as  you have a selection we don't see here in the west.

Paddy

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Paddy,

Until yesterday we had only 6 days without snow this year. You could find the classical elwesii and also some plicatus in flower. Our nivalis are very late this year, mean, I can show you G.n two weeks later. Yesterday we got 5cm of new snow. This night we will get -10°C. So I`m not waiting for drops outside.

ILSE BILSE is a nice visual sister of BLONDE INGE and very good for the garden and not for oven, isn`t it?
If you ever saw Drops in the wild, then you often found Allium ursinum too ----- smell of garlic( Knoblauch - Allium sativum)

[Martin Baxendale]

the label definitely says 'Daglingworth'.  Does anyone else who grows it know if the bottom mark is sometimes joined up?

John, Daglingworth isn't a single clone. A number of different, though very similar, clones were selected from the original population after its discovery, some better than others, so the marks can vary within the overall basic theme.

[daveyp1970]

i found this snowdrop atmy fathers today,the clump was part of a normal double drop,i think its pretty nice.There are two forms amongst it a pure white one and one with green in it.

[KentGardener]

Nice Spikies Davey  - a lot of people hate them but the're just my kind of weird thing.   

Here is another of them in my garden today.

'Bunch'

[mark smyth]

I like spikies but dont grow any.

I have an elwesii that I first noticed coming up on my snowdrop day. The flower is now free of the spathe and it's a cream!

[Paddy Tobin]

I like spikies but dont grow any.

I have an elwesii that I first noticed coming up on my snowdrop day. The flower is now free of the spathe and it's a cream!

Is that Dulux cream or RHS cream?

Paddy

[mark smyth]

Unfortunately the colour chart doesnt have a suitable off white

[mark smyth]

Here it is but the camera doesnt show it very well. Something else that is unusual is the shape of the emerging leaves. I'll take a photo tomorrow

[vivienr]

Just back from Loughborough. I didn't take many pictures as it was very crowded and my camera is so bad.
There are only these where I managed to get the focus, exposure and white balance almost right at the same time.

G. Sophie North - Don Peace had three pots of these and they were stunning (good scent too)

Vic Aspland's 3-pan nivalis, viridapice and plicatus. How did he manage to lift these huge pots?

G, elwesii monostictus

[ichristie]

Hi all, thanks for showing so many super pictures both from your gardens and from the shows. I am posting some pictures taken recently from wild (so to speak) natural woodland plantings established years ago. The first few pictures are from woodlands in Northumberland with G. nivalis Sandersii.  I will then post some pictures of Galanthus plicatus taken at Brechin castle these include one interesting hybrid,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.