Galanthus March 2010

[johnw]

Great pix David. And boy that Green of Hearts sure looks like the Trym impostor here.  Good to see it.  The Bavcon book describes these outer markings as a rear shot of a frog about to leap, I love it.

Also good to see that Deer Slot has the correct footprints.

johnw - it hit 12c today, 1 tomorrow.

[Brian Ellis]

Paddy.  I think the Megan DQ talks of is another of the wonderful trymalikes that has been distributed in recent years.  The is a lovely pic of a potfull shown at the Loughborough show in 2006 here:

http://freespace.virgin.net/almond.jim/Whatsnew.htm

Brian may be able to show a picture of the flower in a garden as I think his was flowering while I visited two weeks ago.

Whilst it may have been flowering then a pheasant took a fancy to it. I'm rather hoping the one that I saw by the side of the road is the culprit and it won't happen again

[johnw]

I have been taken to task for not including Molly!  Here she is.

She's cute and by Jove she's wearing a Sir Thomas Beecham disguise! Can only imagine her comments as rears raised while examining drops.

johnw

[RichardW]

spent a few hours sifting through clumps around an area that's about to cleared yesterday, planted with elwesii many years ago now lots of hybrids, found a few interesting plants & one very odd one.

gdn2 is a clump of 5 bulbs all with double ovaries/flowers
really like gdn3
everything about gdn5 is big.
gdn6 appears a little more yellow than this photo shows.
find7 was found a few years ago, appears to have some Diggory in it.

[mark smyth]

David great set of green tips. I like green tipped snowdrops and would love to have them all. I think there will come a time when they will be as confusing as chunky single marked snowdrops.

[Paddy Tobin]

John (Finch),
I tried Jim Almond's site but there seems to be some problem there. As I scrolled down the page the font size increased dramatically to the point of being illegible so I gave up on it.

Then Brian's pheasant (the ba....d) went and ate his flower of 'Megan'. This reminds me to tell you that when the hens follow me into an area of the garden with snowdrops it can be a nuisance keeping them from picking off the flowers. It's just that they want to pick at something bright as they don't eat them at all. They pick at rings on my fingers, my watch, buttons on coats etc just as  quickly.

Richard, a nice selection of finds - good news for you.

Beautiful day her, morning walk finished, shops visited, time for coffee and cake now and the rest of the day will be in the garden.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I saw a starling in my garden last week pulling off snowdrop flowers. I have never had the problem of sparrows nibbling Crocus

[Gail]

I use upturned wire hanging baskets to keep my chickens off new plantings - they help deter the pheasants from pulling heads of snowdrops and pulsatillas too.

[Brian Ellis]

Sparrows also love trimming the heads of primroses, they will work their way round the whole clump and just pick them off!  Suggestions have been most welcome, I need more hanging baskets Gail - have already covered Rosemary Burnham, Don Armstrong, Wasp and one or two others, the garden is starting to look like a junk yard   Then just when you think you're safe... gardening in the countryside is a constant battle against rabbits, moles, pheasants, pigeons etc etc...but it's worth it

[art600]

Sparrows also love trimming the heads of primroses, they will work their way round the whole clump and just pick them off!  Suggestions have been most welcome, I need more hanging baskets Gail - have already covered Rosemary Burnham, Don Armstrong, Wasp and one or two others, the garden is starting to look like a junk yard   Then just when you think you're safe... gardening in the countryside is a constant battle against rabbits, moles, pheasants, pigeons etc etc...but it's worth it

You mean you don't have deer 

[Alan_b]

John (Finch),
I tried Jim Almond's site but there seems to be some problem there. As I scrolled down the page the font size increased dramatically to the point of being illegible so I gave up on it.

That happened for me using Google Chrome as my web browser, but not when I switched to Internet Explorer

[Paddy Tobin]

Alan, Yes, I use Google Chrome also.

Gail, I love the Sultans, beautiful.

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

Anyone know what's happened to "Judy's Snowdrops" Web Site-I can't find it at all?

[snowdropman]

Anyone know what's happened to "Judy's Snowdrops" Web Site-I can't find it at all?

David - due to the upsurge in interest in snowdrops, Janet's website has been receiving 600 visitors a day, which exceeds the band width allowed by her present supplier & she has had to keep taking the website off-line as a consequence.

Janet is in the throes of transferring over to a new supplier and hopes to have this sorted soon.

[David Nicholson]

Chris, many thanks for that, it also answers why I had problems from time to time last week. Hope it is back up soon I find it very useful.