Galanthus February 2011

[RichardW]

Richard - the proper name is Ivy Cottage Corporal - I only know because I have ordered it this year but not got it yet.  The markings are supposed to resemble a Corporal's stripes.....if you have a vivid imagination    I love the 'find' of yours and the gorgeous snowdrop vistas.  It is looking beautiful.

thanks Jennie, the found one is different but not something I think is very attractive, but it has made a small clump quite quickly.

[daveyp1970]

If anybody's still after elwesii Green Brush you can get it here http://www.royal-blooms.com/flowersproducts.asp?id=157140402329103&SectionID=50&Start=1 I think jenny was after it.

[Maggi Young]

If anybody's still after elwesii Green Brush you can get it here http://www.royal-blooms.com/flowersproducts.asp?id=157140402329103&SectionID=50&Start=1 I think jenny was after it.

 New one on me, Davey..... perhaps our Norfolk forumists can reccommend this company?
Royal Blooms
Wimbotsham
Norfolk
PE34 8QB

Tel: 01366 386286

[mark smyth]

NEVER buy Green Brush mail order. ALWAYS buy it where you can see what you are getting.

I saw about 100 Green Brush this week and was amazed by the range of green on the tips. This ranged from the tiniest amount to what we see in the photo that is used to sell the plants. Sadly and stupidly I forgot to take photos.

Allegedly this is a seed raised variety.

My plants had minute green marks and were badly affected by stagonospora when they arrived as dormant bulbs.

[daveyp1970]

To late Mark all ready bought one,i'll report back when it arrives.Thanks for the heads up though

[mark smyth]

yellow Trym

[art600]

yellow Trym

I would send it back - it is olive green 

[Martin Baxendale]

NEVER buy Green Brush mail order. ALWAYS buy it where you can see what you are getting.

I saw about 100 Green Brush this week and was amazed by the range of green on the tips. This ranged from the tiniest amount to what we see in the photo that is used to sell the plants. Sadly and stupidly I forgot to take photos.

Allegedly this is a seed raised variety.

My plants had minute green marks and were badly affected by stagonospora when they arrived as dormant bulbs.

My bulbs of Green Brush from Gerard also had variable (and disappointing) marks, and one rotted before making any root or leaf growth. Mark, you mentioned at the gala that you'd been told it was a seed-raised strain or grex but I can't remember if you said who the info came from. Was it a reliable source? Gerard maintains it's a clone after I questioned him about it earlier in this thread. We really ought to get this settled one way or the other so that people know what they're buying and know for sure the best way to buy - which seems to be, as you say, in flower so you can pick out the best ones.

Gerard, perhaps you could tell us who your source is for the claim that it's a clone? Did you speak to the person who raised it?

[Martin Baxendale]

yellow Trym

Did Joe say anything about whether the colour gets better after it settles in or on certain soil types?

[Brian Ellis]

If anybody's still after elwesii Green Brush you can get it here http://www.royal-blooms.com/flowersproducts.asp?id=157140402329103&SectionID=50&Start=1 I think jenny was after it.

 New one on me, Davey..... perhaps our Norfolk forumists can reccommend this company?
Royal Blooms
Wimbotsham
Norfolk
PE34 8QB

Tel: 01366 386286

I haven't bought any bulbs from them, I think this may be a new departure.  It is part of Whispering Trees nursery which is a brilliant fruit tree/bush nursery.  I used to pop in on the way back to Norwich in apple season and they sold all the varieties they grew.  I always bought two or three bags of quite unusual ones.  Aaah memory lane strikes again.  I have had fruit bushes from the company which were good.

[Brian Ellis]

yellow Trym

Did Joe say anything about whether the colour gets better after it settles in or on certain soil types?

It would be stunning if it did.

[Hans J]

If anybody's still after elwesii Green Brush you can get it here http://www.royal-blooms.com/flowersproducts.asp?id=157140402329103&SectionID=50&Start=1 I think jenny was after it.

 New one on me, Davey..... perhaps our Norfolk forumists can reccommend this company?
Royal Blooms
Wimbotsham
Norfolk
PE34 8QB

Tel: 01366 386286

I haven't bought any bulbs from them, I think this may be a new departure.  It is part of Whispering Trees nursery which is a brilliant fruit tree/bush nursery.  I used to pop in on the way back to Norwich in apple season and they sold all the varieties they grew.  I always bought two or three bags of quite unusual ones.  Aaah memory lane strikes again.  I have had fruit bushes from the company which were good.

Interesting to see that this nursery has listet also Galanthus "Bobette" .....the picture is also "Green Brush"
On the website of P.Nijssen is a other pic of "Bobette" 

[mark smyth]

Joe always complains about his soil making yellow marks pale green

P. Nijssen mailed my G. Marijke in a jiffy bag. The roots have dried and the flower has withered.

[Martin Baxendale]

Joe always complains about his soil making yellow marks pale green

P. Nijssen mailed my G. Marijke in a jiffy bag. The roots have dried and the flower has withered.

That's bad for Joe but good news for the rest of us if it means his yellow Trym will get brighter elsewhere. Was there nothing in the jiffy bag to keep the roots moist?

[Maggi Young]

Maggi: Royal Blooms
Wimbotsham
Norfolk
PE34 8QB

Interesting to see that this nursery has listet also Galanthus "Bobette" .....the picture is also "Green Brush"
On the website of P.Nijssen is a other pic of "Bobette"  

I could not find the photo of Bobette' on the Nijssen site, but the Snowdrop mongraph says in  "2001.......Peter Nijssen .... includes two new cultivars of G. elwesii........ 'Bo bette' and 'Spring Pearl'. Both have separate apical and basal marks."

 This two mark description matches theat given in various nursery lists.

 Mark Smyth has a single marked flower under Bobette /Bobbette on his site
http://www.snowdropinfo.com/galanthus%20bobbette.html


More white confusion  
Not so much a white fever as a white delirium, me thinks!