Galanthus Autumn 2010

[Hans J]

Hi John

The pic is fine but could you clarify the spelling of this variety? Thanks

Steve

Steve :

the name of this plant is "Tessera" .....this is greek language and means : "four"

Hans

[snowdropman]

John - a slip of the pen here, this is G. reginae-olgae 'Tessera' - Melvyn Jope posted photo's & a brief note in 2009 see http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7.msg116509#msg116509

[steve owen]

Thanks Hans and Chris.

[annew]

It looks like you have already mastered your new camera, John!

[KentGardener]

Sorry Steve - I spelt it wrong in the text (did get it right on the photo  ).

Thanks Mark and Anne - the photos that worked were more luck than any skill with the camera on my part.  Lots of practice still required.

I don't grow many reginae-olgae as I don't think they like my garden - I did, however, come home from Melvyn's with a couple of his 'chuck outs' - 2 of his seedling grown reginae-olgae that haven't passed his exacting standards - that I am going to try in a different part of my garden to see how they do.

[Tony Willis]

this came as Galanthus reginae olgae ssp vernalis from Greece but seems much the same as the rest of r-o. Flowering three weeks later than last year

Galanthus reginae olgae ssp vernalis

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

Melvyn certainly seems to have high standards as the snowdrop you show is a lovely flower with particularly elegant outer segments and a dainty inner mark. A nice snowdrop to have. I suppose I can understand that Melvyn might not see it as worthy of naming but it is a nice snowdrop nonetheless.

And nicely photographed.

Paddy

[Hans A.]

John, thanks a lot for showing Melvyns outstanding selections!

Here some from spain, the autumnflowering species do much better than the spring flowering ones, but they could bulk up quicker.
While G. peshmenii and G. reginae-olgae are nearly over, G. elwesii monostictus and G. cilicicus start to flower.

[Brian Ellis]

Lovely Hans, I especially like your G. monostictus with green on the outers.

[daveyp1970]

Lovely Hans, I especially like your G. monostictus with green on the outers.

I agree lovely

[snowdropman]

Hans - just to let you know that the lovely green tipped G. reginae-olgae that you posted a few weeks ago at

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6017.0;attach=252457;image

and which was much admired by Forumists, has now been formally named G. reginae-olgae 'Anmarie Kee'

[Maggi Young]

Hans - just to let you know that the lovely green tipped G. reginae-olgae that you posted a few weeks ago at

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6017.0;attach=252457;image

and which was much admired by Forumists, has now been formally named G. reginae-olgae 'Anmarie Kee'

That's the last photo in Hans A's message here on page 11 of this thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6017.msg171724#msg171724
- very nice 'drop, introduced and named by a Forumist for his wife.

I'll repeat Hans' pic here.....

[KentGardener]

Hans - you have really cheered a cold Sunday afternoon. Wonderful pictures of some lovely flowers.   

I too particularly like the green tipped monostictus and reginae-olgae 'Anmarie Kee'.  I definitely seem to be developing a liking for snowdrops with a bit of green on the outside. 

[ArnoldT]

I have to preface my comments by stating that I'm not a serious Galantophile.  I have thousands of  of Galanthus Elwesii var. monostictus scattered around my property.  They were here when I arrived twenty years ago.  Of note is that this part of Northern New Jersey was known as the English Neighborhood.  It is well planted with Snowdrops and Fagus sylvatica with many the  trees being over one hundred years old.

My Galanthus  doesn't match the one illustrated by Hans.

I have attached a link to an image.  In John Grimshaw's book he has an image of the Snowdrop on page 36.

http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Galanthus

My bulbs flower in Feb/March.

[Melvyn Jope]

The majority of my Galanthus reginae-olgae have now finished flowering but there are still a few of interest like this flower with five petals which I think looks surprisingly elegant.