Galanthus February 2011

[kentish_lass]

Mark - I have to admit Yes they are this years acquisitions    I have a very big garden and it is difficult to make an impact - well that's my excuse.
Snowdrops are eating away at my savings much faster than the daylilies did and I thought that addiction was bad.

Yes my woronowii are way behind yours.  Where I live we are 700ft above sea level and everything flowers much later.

Jennie

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Yes my woronowii are way behind yours.  Where I live we are 700ft above sea level and everything flowers much later.
Jennie[/quote]

Hi Jenny , my woronowii are about the same as yours, just about showing in my garden.

Another few pics from our gardens
Diggory
gracilis
Wendys Gold
ccc 4p

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Opps sorry pictures in wrong order.

[Jo]

This is my group of green tipped woronowii. How excited I was when I bought and brought home and planted about 10 green tipped woronowii. The next year the green tips were gone

Hey Mark, I just bought a green tipped woronowii and a 5 petalled one from Rosemoor, both labelled as elwesii, they had a whole batch that were mislabelled     Its amazing how often snowdrops are mislabelled.

I expect these will revert like yours. The 5 petalled one looks a bit fasciated, or like Mrs Thompson.

[mark smyth]

You are not allowed to go back until I get there! 

[kentish_lass]

Is that this years acquisitions?

BTW only the snowdrops are new this year and the potted bulbs!  I am not that bad ....yet
Jennie

[Brian Ellis]

Snowdrops are eating away at my savings.....

Now that seems familiar, and I'm going to a snowdrop sale tomorrow afternoon at Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery

[kentish_lass]

Cheryl - you are lucky to have a little clump of Diggory, I think my single bulb has perished and I was so looking forward to that one.

This is not a snowdrop but is a very worthy little woodland bulb that you will all know - Narcissus Cedric Morris.  I started with a single bulb many years ago and have been patiently splitting it and spreading around for years....just incase of narcissus fly.  I now have a few nice colonies in three locations.
It is quite late this year - in milder winters I always had one in flower for Christmas day.

[kentish_lass]

Snowdrops are eating away at my savings.....

Now that seems familiar, and I'm going to a snowdrop sale tomorrow afternoon at Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery

Lucky you - I bought some very fair priced excellent quality bulbs from them on ebay this year as Buy it Nows.

[johnw]

A smart looking clump of Diggory there Cheryl!

johnw

[johnw]

Jennie - Yes the plicatus seedlings are in the greenhouse. They'd be not so stretched if it were colder inside, even with the thermostat set at 4c when the sun comes out the temp rockets up to the high teens or 20's. At this time of year it is too cold outdoors to vent properly, a change of wind direction and you have -5c or worse blowing in.  I considered gas or wax powered vents but have seen them fail constantly at a greenhouse I tend. In fact last week even the electric vent louvres were wide open and -11c outside, just caught it in the nick of time, some computer glitch in the main computer - pistons disonnected but motors are still running.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

Lucky you - I bought some very fair priced excellent quality bulbs from them on ebay this year as Buy it Nows.

Ah, but Jennie a little bird tells me that, at this very moment you are visiting a wonderful snowdrop collection

[Alan_b]

Brian, I was just wondering about the Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery sale today; do you know who will be there?

Edit:  Oops looks like I just missed him!

[loes]

Joy Cozens again
still looking orange,color on the photo`s is difficult to get right.clearly visible in the garden,I like it!

[mark smyth]

Loes a pale grey card behind the snowdrops would help your camera see the snowdrops

So much for someone says it was sick with stagonospora