Galanthus Autumn 2010

[steve owen]

My first snowdrop nose showing today in open ground: G. Autumn Beauty.  A sign of good things to come. Interestingly this variety sold at RHS Wisley caused comment in the Autumn 2009 thread because of its variability. Anyway, its the first. No sign yet of G. monostictus or earlies such as Barnes.

[Brian Ellis]

Excellent news Steve, we won't have long to wait now for our firsts of the season

[KentGardener]

I had a look around my garden yesterday and no sign of any earlies yet.  Glad to hear they are on their way though Steve. 

[Paddy Tobin]

This sounds remarkably like those letters to newspapers on the first swallow sightings of spring.

Yes, Steve, G. 'Autumn Beauty' brought some comments last year. Snowdrops sold under the name are not, apparently, all the same.

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

This snowdrop breeding is getting out of hand. Just finished emptying out pots of seedlings from the last two years ready for repotting. And this is the result.
Bear in mind that this is just the last two years worth of seedlings, from sowings in 2008 and 2009. I weighed the bags all together with the bulbs in and it was over three kilos. There are about 100 bags, and taking the weight of those off, I estimate I have at least a kilo and a half of small one and two year old seedlings there, and easily over a thousand individual little bulbs.

Now to start on the pots of seedlings from earlier years!

[steve owen]

Martin

Sounds like painting the Forth Road Bridge.

Steve

[Hagen Engelmann]

Here G. peshmenii and G. r.o. are on the way too. Could be a good autumn season this year. The day to the first flower are numbered.

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin

Sounds like painting the Forth Road Bridge.

Steve

Worse than that, Steve; it's like painting a Forth Road Bridge that keeps getting longer! At one end of the process, every year there's another batch of seed and another load of seedlings to pot and repot, while at the other end I have to give flowering seedlings plenty of time to show their true worth, and then select them out and start chipping to bulk up the good ones - which starts off yet another propagation chain with cupboards full of chipping bags and pots and pots of chipped offspring!!! It's all getting a little out of hand 

[johnw]

Great work Martin, you are bound to get some worthwhile selections.

Now what will you use for a potting mix?

johnw - 40mm of rain expected today.

[Brian Ellis]

Here G. peshmenii and G. r.o. are on the way too. Could be a good autumn season this year. The day to the first flower are numbered.

Yes G.peshmenii is just showing it's nose here too.  Hooray

[KentGardener]

Hmmmm.      Maybe I NEED to get myself a G. peshmenii here for next year.   Would it survive in the open ground?

[Brian Ellis]

Mine's in a pot in the greenhouse John, it like sun

[Maggi Young]

Mine's in a pot in the greenhouse John, it likes sun

 Oooops! 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi all, a good time is coming. John, you should have a G peshmenii for your autumn-pleasure and your self-conception. Because you are a galanthophile . A friend of mine has a slowly but constantly increasing stock outdoor in Berlin. So you should have also no bigger problems.

[mark smyth]

My first peshmenii has been in flower all week. Because of the new job I havent been able to have a good look until today