Galanthus Winter 2010

[Hans A.]

Galanthus elwesii monostictus in sunshine. 

[Lvandelft]

It is NADELSTREIFENSPITZEN.

Hagen, NADELSTREIFENSPITZEN is not bad looking too and even with some better green than the Dutch one.

[mark smyth]

Galanthus elwesii monostictus in sunshine. 

or is it elwesii elwesii?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hans, your "grünröckiges" (all green inner tepales) Gem is very impressive.
Mark, I never heard about a Gee in this early flowering period.
Chris, I will send you a PM.
John, NADELSTREIFENSPITZEN has a normal but very big apicalmark, because it is a Gem.
Maggi, thank you for the translation of NADELSTREIFENSPITZEN.
Luit, may be its more green because it got fewer light?

[Paddy Tobin]

Galanthus elwesii monostictus in sunshine. 

Hans, you show and describe a new one for us - "sunshine". We haven't seen that for a long time.

Good snowdrop.

Paddy

[Gerard Oud]

Very nice one Hagen and so early! This must be in a greenhouse or something like it.
Luit i wish i had time to visit Lisse on mondays but its too busy at the moment in the Lillies. About 90 million to wash and pack this season!

[emma T]

My snowdrops are buried under the snow    probably a good thing with temperatures dropping to - 13 last night here in Dorset

[Brian Ellis]

My snowdrops are buried under the snow

Yep, mine too Emma and I am giving the chips an extra fleece blanket today. 

[Maggi Young]

My snowdrops are buried under the snow    probably a good thing with temperatures dropping to - 13 last night here in Dorset

That is cold, Emma.... would that be a record cold temp. for your area?

I know that we have Forumists who have already been stuck below minus 20 or 30 for weeks, but for the UK this weather is not the norm and so we're taking it badly! 

[emma T]

It is the lowest recorded temperature for November that i know of, dont know about the country as a whole. It got down to - 17 last January     I  live and work in a frost pocket      

[emma T]

plus we have freezing fog this morning !!!!

[Maggi Young]

plus we have freezing fog this morning !!!!

Oh joy! It's gets worse, doesn't it? 

[steve owen]

A slow thaw on the Bucks/Beds border this morning, +4. The cold seems to incentivise the bulbs to come through.

[Hans A.]

Thanks for all the comments! yes, that one is a Galanthus elwesii monostictus.

Mark, I never heard about a Gee in this early flowering period.

This is also what I have heard - but today I had a further look on a snowdrop because I saw three very bluish leaves, checking the flower I would think it is a very early Galanthus elwesii elwesii, at least this year.  

[Melvyn Jope]

With temperatures above freezing for the first time in a while I checked on my snowdrops and noted that its a real time of transition. The majority of Galanthus reginae-olgae and all of Galanthus peshmenii have finished flowering. I brought the plants shown below into the house to photograph and was immediatly struck by how quickly you could smell the perfume from the flowers.
G.r-o Stefan is a John Fielding selection, note the 'crinkled' end on the pedicle which is always evident on this selection.
G.r-o Leyla is one that I have selected because it is always at its best now right at the end of my plants flowering season.
One of the last few flowers still on G.r-o Fotini.
Promise of things to come with the only G.r-o ssp vernalis that I have selected as worth naming, Katsoris.