Galanthus January 2011

[steve owen]

Hooray, some sunshine at last, and a chance to get the camera out...

[steve owen]

and a few more....Harwood Twin is a bit dog-eared...

[mark smyth]

Tony thats a lovely mark on your plicatus plicatus

[Paddy Tobin]

Steve,

That's a selection of very uncommon ones for me, very interesting.

Isn't 'Harwood Twin' an interesting one. Does it always have the two flowers?
Lovely shape to the flower and spathe of 'All Saints' and that's a lovely long flower on 'Britten's Kite', very elegant indeed.

Enjoyed them all.

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

Nice clump of Margaret Biddulph, Steve.

[mark smyth]

The year I gave lectures at Harvey's I bought two Ivy Cottage Green Tips. Last year they lacked green tips. They are just through and the green tips are not there. Does anyone have it? Do they have green tips?

[ian mcenery]

three more out today,the first two from swaps with Ian and the third my own seed in 1992

Galanthus 'Yvonne'
Galanthus plicatus ssp byzantinus
Galanthus plicatus ssp plicatus

Nicely grown and photographed Tony

[KentGardener]

I bought two Ivy Cottage Green Tips. Last year they lacked green tips. They are just through and the green tips are not there. Does anyone have it? Do they have green tips?

They have always had green tips here Mark - I'll see if I can find them later or tomorrow.  (Hopefully I haven't put a paving stone on top of them like I did last year when they had yellow tips for a while!   ) 

[steve owen]

Paddy

Harwood Twin seems reliable at throwing two flowers from each scape.

Steve

[Jo]

The year I gave lectures at Harvey's I bought two Ivy Cottage Green Tips. Last year they lacked green tips. They are just through and the green tips are not there. Does anyone have it? Do they have green tips?

Hi Mark,

yes, I have it too and it has green tips, however the markings are really small and I definitely had to get down low to see them. 

If it warms up at all today I'll take a photo.

We've got the garden open tomorrow, the forecast is dry and cloudy and 2C so I don't think there will be a lot to see  Only some of the late earlies

  Even Atkinsii is tight shut although the flowers are all there and the overall effect is white theres not an inner to be seen

Luckily people are phoning to check and so we can tell them to wait till next Sunday and hopefully we won't be under a blanket of snow by then.

[mark smyth]

As mine are still at soil level I'll get back to y'all when it opens

[Olga Bondareva]

This clump started with three bulbs in 2001.

Thank you Paddy! Now I have a hope to get the same clump from my 2 bulbs. 

[KentGardener]

Cold day here (well Bloody Freezing day if I am honest!) - but as I work most days and rarely see the garden in daylight recently   I have taken some photos, even though the flowers are not at their best while protecting their nether regions (as I was too  )

1 - a really rubbish photo - but I am very glad to see that the double header that Brian Ellis, David Quinton and I spotted while visiting the Greatorex woods with Richard Hobbs has proven stable for a third year.    (It looks better when it puffs out a bit in a couple of weeks).

2 - this year 'Three Ships' has managed to still have some nice looking flowers to make me happy at the end of January.

3 - I know we've seen it twice already this year - but Trimmer is definitely attracting my attention each time I get into the garden in the last couple of weeks.

4 - My first flower on JM6 (or JMDS-7B2-6 as it is also known  ) - I've been waiting a few years for this after a postal blunder where the parcel took almost 2 months to reach me.  A very sad looking mess was unwrapped but luckily there was a small solid bulb in the centre of the mess.  A couple of patient years of feeding the leaves and I've been rewarded with a beautiful little flower.  

5 & 6 - Some years I look at 'Richard Ayres' and think - that is one lovely looking snowdrop.  This is another one of those years for me.  Beautiful.  

7 - My first Hellebore flower of the season.

yes, I have it too and it has green tips, however the markings are really small and I definitely had to get down low to see them.

Mark, Jo is absolutely right - I knew the green tips are there, and on all flowers, but you do need to look for them.  

8 & 9 - Ivy Cottage Green Tips

[emma T]

Been out with the camera for a bit, to cold to stay outside for long ( evil wind chill         ) two pics of Galanthus ex Emma Thick and one of a findling from a few years which normaly put up flowers 4x4 or 5x5 , this year has produced a fused scape. What it does next will be interesting 

[Brian Ellis]

I am very glad to see that the double header that Brian Ellis, David Quinton and I spotted while visiting the Greatorex woods with Richard Hobbs has proven stable for a third year.

I am keeping my fingers crossed John, I can't remember whether David had one or not?