Galanthus March 2010

[KentGardener]

Hagan,  I am GREEN with envy!   

[Hagen Engelmann]

No problem John, I`m also only a green boy

[Gerard Oud]

Are you still saving some for us Hagen, i think you do

Here's one very dark green, spikey like, double i found on friday and a nivalis with extreme long flowers and upright pedicel and a bit limeygreen.

And the elwesii with the green on the bridge to the ovary and some greentipped nivalis that shows like modern art.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes Gerard, the show must go on. Intresting to see Your GREEN SHOULDER. I will show you some minutes later the same type of mine (GRÜNE NAGELSPITZEN).

[Gerard Oud]

Hagen, i cant remember i have seen this before.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Gerard, here is a galanthus looking like Your GREEN SHOULDER. It will get the name GRÜNE NAGELSPITZEN.

[Thomas Seiler]

You never fail to surprise us, Hagen. 

[Anthony Darby]

Galanthus platyphyllus, well out now in a pot, but still below the soil surface in the garden.

[ian mcenery]

Galanthus platyphyllus, well out now in a pot, but still below the soil surface in the garden.

Very nice. Mine outside had a single flower which a slug took a liking to    Ah well next year

Always one of the last to flower G Fieldgate Superb a very elegant snowdrop

[Martin Baxendale]

Always one of the last to flower G Fieldgate Superb a very elegant snowdrop

Nice pic, and a lovely clump. I always puzzle over the exact differences between Fieldgate Superb and Fieldgate Fugue. To me, they look different when they're at different stages of flower development, but if compared at the same stage of development, they look very much the same (unless my clumps are mis-named).

[Hagen Engelmann]

Very nice group of FIELDGATE SUPERB, Ian. Now I have to go to look for mine. I forgot this nice plant. Ohhh

[ian mcenery]

Always one of the last to flower G Fieldgate Superb a very elegant snowdrop

Nice pic, and a lovely clump. I always puzzle over the exact differences between Fieldgate Superb and Fieldgate Fugue. To me, they look different when they're at different stages of flower development, but if compared at the same stage of development, they look very much the same (unless my clumps are mis-named).

Martin I don't have Fugue so can't really comment also the pictures in the book are quite similar but I know that Superb is reckoned to be one of the last to flower and it seems to last into April each year.

[Mavers]

I like your green'uns very much Hagen, thanks for showing us.

I think there are going to be many surprises coming from the continent as far as snowdrops are concerned.

[Boyed]

galanthus alpinus (native species)

[Anthony Darby]

A nice species well grown.