Galanthus Autumn 2010

[KentGardener]

You're going to need a bigger garden Martin!

Exactly what I was just thinking!

Can you not find a local stately home that you can swap residence with?   

 

[steve owen]

Martin, just astonished at the scale of what you are doing (no pun intended). Not just the growing room needed but it must take huge amounts of time.

Alan, was it Athenae and Hollis you wanted pics of? (plenty of Barnes pics have been posted). Wet and grey here today, but at the first sunshine this week I'll get the camera out and post the pics. My Peter Gatehouse wants a week still to flower but looks to have clumped up well since last year.

Further exploration in the (wet) garden today revealed Early to Rize in flower and also Remember Remember, for once living up to its name. I'm determined to grow a well-behaved non-sprawling clump of R-R even if it means burying the bulbs 4" deep.

Picked the grapes today - 52 lbs, a record. When the harvest is this quantity, I tread them the traditional way, bare feet. Can't beat squidgy grapes between the toes....

Maggie, could you maybe PM me with the names of those who don't want their snowdrop lists mentioned on the Forum? Don't want to upset anybody.

[Maggi Young]

Steve, I think it would be best to check with anyone who's list you have to see what their attitude is.

If someone wants to keep their list private, feel they have e nough customers already and does not want to risk being approached for a list by 'undesirables', then I think it is up to them to sort that out.  

[johnw]

Great work Martin, there appears to much more ahead.

First one out  - no sun in sight - in a pot - G. reginae-olgae 'Tilebar Jamie'.

johnw

[alpinelover]

Galanthus reginae olgae is not quite finished blooming, or there is Galanthus hiemalis.

[annew]

So glad to hear you are still potting up chips, Martin. I just did the last of mine and was worried I was too late. What is your experience of success rates this late? I have to confess that I chipped too late this year so the bulbils aren't as big as I would like.

[Alan_b]

Alan, was it Athenae and Hollis you wanted pics of?

Yes please.

Barnes I have heard of; in fact I was growing it until the bulbs got attacked last year.  I have yet to see if any survived; my version of Barnes never emerges this early.

[Martin Baxendale]

So glad to hear you are still potting up chips, Martin. I just did the last of mine and was worried I was too late. What is your experience of success rates this late? I have to confess that I chipped too late this year so the bulbils aren't as big as I would like.

I think it's okay to chip any time the bulb is dormant, right up till rooting starts. I once chipped some bulbs in October as an experiment, and by February they'd caught up with those chipped in June/July.

[annew]

Glad to hear it!

[Brian Ellis]

So glad to hear you are still potting up chips, Martin. I just did the last of mine and was worried I was too late. What is your experience of success rates this late? I have to confess that I chipped too late this year so the bulbils aren't as big as I would like.

I think it's okay to chip any time the bulb is dormant, right up till rooting starts. I once chipped some bulbs in October as an experiment, and by February they'd caught up with those chipped in June/July.

...and I am just about to pot up this years chips, which were done rather late and are now ready to take out of their bags.  Last years are beginning to poke their noses through in their pots, so I feel as though I really am late

[annew]

Join our club, Brian!
Here are 4 from my bulb house:
Galanthus peshmenii, and G. reginae-olgae Sofia, Eleni and Tilebarn Jamie.

[alpinelover]

Very nice plants, Annew, a dash sun today opened the flowers of Galanthus hiemalis.

[mark smyth]

Frankie those are good looking G. elwesii hiemalis

[Oakwood]

have to tell everybody, GRO has firstly flowered in UKRAINE just now! There are some clumps from Wim Granneman (Netherland - many thanks him!) growing from April 2010 in Donetsk (SE Ukraine) and in Kiev BG (C Ukraine). It blooms at us finaly!!!! Hope this species overwinter well in our far not Mediterranian climate..... and I saw this morning some slugs around Kiev clump, but they don't eat them (yet??  )

[KentGardener]

I too like the shape of your flowers Frankie.

Dimitri, I hope you collected some of those lovely looking walnuts.  Nice to see you face in with the flowers.