Galanthus February 2011

[mark smyth]

I'm very excited right now. I've just been to a private estate that is about two miles 3km from my house. I have never seen so many snowdrops in my life. They all look like nivalis. It was too dark to take lots of photos. I was brought by the gamekeeper to see where he had seen bats flying today.

I have to get back before the snowdrops go over.

I was also at the old garden where nivalis x plicatus Marks Tall came from. I found a S. Arnott type of snowdrop. which is now in my garden

[annew]

This is a nice plicatus seedling that someone gave me a few years back.

[Martin Baxendale]

This is a nice plicatus seedling that someone gave me a few years back.

Very pretty.

[Hoy]

I'm very excited right now. I've just been to a private estate that is about two miles 3km from my house. I have never seen so many snowdrops in my life. They all look like nivalis. It was too dark to take lots of photos. I was brought by the gamekeeper to see where he had seen bats flying today.

I have to get back before the snowdrops go over.

I was also at the old garden where nivalis x plicatus Marks Tall came from. I found a S. Arnott type of snowdrop. which is now in my garden

Now, that had been something   I would rather visit such gardens than watch the World Ski Championship in Oslo right now!
I am still waiting for the first snowdrops to open properly here

[galanthophile]

I have the opposite of that huge elwesii of Mark's on page 49. This is no bigger than my thumb! It's in a group of what I presume are woronowii.

[Maggi Young]

Interview with Joe Sharman from 25/2/11  in the FT online.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9f7f5c2-3ef2-11e0-834e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1F4gM8YBB

[Martin Baxendale]

Interview with Joe Sharman from 25/2/11  in the FT online.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9f7f5c2-3ef2-11e0-834e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1F4gM8YBB

Spot the mistake - they describe Galanthus 'E.A. Bowles' as a YELLOW plicatus! I'm assuming they didn't bother sending their story to Joe to be checked for mistakes.

[johnw]

Wow a shot of the rare krasnovii on John Grimshaw's marvellous blog this morning!

Does anyone sell seeds of platyphyllus or krasnovii?

johnw

[mark smyth]

I have the address of the man who was selling krasnovii at the Gala. He must grow from seed?

I bough a platyphyllus at the Gala. When I knocked it out of its pot guess how many roots it had - 0 - if I had known at the time .....

[johnw]

I have the address of the man who was selling krasnovii at the Gala. He must grow from seed?

I bough a platyphyllus at the Gala. When I knocked it out of its pot guess how many roots it had - 0 - if I had known at the time .....

If you could PM me the address that would be great.

Rootless platyphyllus? Argh.   I guess this is when you want to see roots coming out the drainage holes! Is platyphyllus difficult to grow in the UK including Scotland.   I'm trying to find species that don't require a good dry summer or baking.  How do ikariae and reginae-olgae do in the cool and mist of Scotland's summer?

johnw

[Paddy Tobin]

Interview with Joe Sharman from 25/2/11  in the FT online.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9f7f5c2-3ef2-11e0-834e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1F4gM8YBB

My goodness, what horrible people there are in the world that they would come and steal from other people's garden and how uncomfortable for Joe Sharman that he has to be so secretive.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

Forget the krasnovii what about the yellow plicatus byzantinus - drool drool

[Maggi Young]

Does anyone sell seeds of platyphyllus or krasnovii?

johnw

There was the person who sold us bulbs of platyphyllus some years ago - except that they were woronowii!  

[johnw]

I won't forget the krasnovii but that yellow is superb.

johnw

[daveyp1970]

Maggie i've had the same,ive also been sold Galanthus ikariae which turned out to be woronowii