Galanthus March 2010

[mark smyth]

Gerard your yellow plicatus byzantinus is very desirable

[Warren Desmond]

I found Mark's question interesting, since I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary with Warren's colours.... here are the three pix together for comparison.... Warren's pix first and third  and Mark's in the middle....tomorrow I'll be going outside to look at my Wendy's Gold to see how yellow she is!!

(Attachment Link) Warren's 'Primrose Warburg'
(Attachment Link) Mark's 'Wendy's Gold'
(Attachment Link) Warren's  'Wendy's Gold'


Isn't it just as much a question of light ?

I must conclude mine actually do look that yellow (as the image I posted) which I did begin to wonder 
The image Mark posted looked pale to my eyes..but then I did a Google search for wendys gold to see if there was a big variance in the color and Marks excellent site came up and the image on there in my opinion was as yellow as mine...!!

Warren

[Brian Ellis]

Very nice Gerard, I have to agree 'Ilse Bilse' is lovely 

[Paddy Tobin]

As the interest seems to be in the yellows at the moment, here are a few from the garden today.

Paddy

G. nivalis 'Lutescens'
'Primrose Warburg'
'Sandersii'
'Wendy's Gold'
and a seedling from 'Wendy's Gold' - just took seed from a ripe pod of 'Wendy's Gold' a few years back and sowed them straight away in the soil close to the parent plant. They have flowered for the first time this year, a nice little snowdrop.

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

Ronald McKenzie is on Gardener's World at the moment.

Paddy

[Hans J]

Hi

here is a little explanataion for 'Ilse Bilse'
This is a old poem for children :

Ilse Bilse,
niemand willse.
Kam der Koch,
nahm sie doch,
steckt sie in das Ofenloch

This means :
Ilse ( a female firstname ) Bilse
nobody like it.
Came the cook
take she with him
and put she in the oven whole

Sorry but it is a bit sad .....

[Anthony Darby]

Ilse Bilse is certainly a bit special.

[vivienr]

Ronald McKenzie is on Gardener's World at the moment.

I'd forgotten that it was starting again, thanks for the reminder. Looks like I-player is not going to show it until after tomorrow's repeat.

[Hans J]

Anthony :

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

 

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Vivien, I think that i-player only kicks in after a scheduled repeat.  Irritating  

Ronald Mackenzie was filmed showing us the 'drops in his garden, all the while being gently snowed upon.... he was wearing no coat.... silly chap!

Back at the GW Garden  the presenter, Toby B, was shown planting snowdrops.... "bought in the green, £22 -ish for 100 bulbs" and we saw him take handfuls of the poor bulbs and stick them in crowded clumps in the ground, ramming them down in a method absolutely bound to break what roots the  benighted things still had left..... horrible cruelty to innocent bulbs, shown before the watershed,too   .....

[Anthony Darby]

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.

[mark smyth]

GW - not worth watching

[Gerard Oud]

Ilse Bilse is very nice and its flowering already from half December!
I like the two yellow markings its very special!

[bulborum]

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Roland

[bulborum]

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

Roland