Galanthus March 2011

[Boyed]

Hi Boyed,

Lots of flower. They look great. Is G. artjuschenkoae what I'd call G. transcaucasicus? There seems to be a few yellows in there?! I struggle to get mine to flower at all.

Good late display. Have you had a particularly late or cold winter?

Regards,

Lewis

No, it is not transcaucasicus. it is separate species, quite vigorous, but doesn't like replanating and harvesting. After replanting it needs a year or two to perform its best. So the first year after replanting it is ususally less vigorous, short and some speciemen show some yellow, which is not permanent feauture. Unlike this species, galanthus alpinus, doen't mind relpanting at all and always looks in its best. This spring was about 10 days late here in our region.

We have quite cold winters, in February the temperature can drop until -25 C for several days.

[Boyed]

Lovely drops Zhirair.  Are these planted in your garden?  I like the shape of the flowers and also interested to see how yellow some of them are.   

Yes, they are planted in my garden. I planted some small bulbs, now the second year i have them and this season most of them are in bloom.

[Boyed]

Hello Zhirair, very interesting species. Spring goes to east . Our season is in best time now. Do you have some close up views please?

Hagen, I didn't make close up photos, as that day I photographed with my mobile. Tomorrow I will take my camera and will make a some close ups for you. I am quite lazy lately with taking pix.

[TheNorm]

Thanks Zhirair,

Great plants and looking forward to seeing your close up pictures. Thanks for the information, much appreciated.  Is there a big bulb sales/swap market in Armenia? 

Thanks,


Lewis

[Janis Ruksans]

Hi Zhirair - again on Forum!
Here few snowdrops, still bvlooming in greenhouse due very cold weather. Today all the day was snowing.
The first - Galanthus transcaucasicus from Iran
Then Galanthus  angustifolius
Galanthus kemulariae
and as last - G. nivalis 'Poculi Perfect'
Janis

[TheNorm]

Lovely pictures Janis,

Great to see the foliage on G. transcaucasius in such detail.

Lewis

[johnw]

A few nivalis from today while the sun is out.

johnw  -  +8c

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you Janis and JohnW for your late pics. The music (of the bells) is over. Here we can shut the doors.
Some late greetings with our favourites:
LINIENTREU - only green lines never green spots.

[Hagen Engelmann]

DES ZAUBERERS LEHRLING - a little apprentice of the great master MERLIN

[Hagen Engelmann]

MÄRZEN`S MAIGRÜN - a yellowgreen color

[Paddy Tobin]

Hagen,

I think you are becoming the specialist of the green-marked snowdrops! You certainly seem to like them very much and have a wonderful selection.

They all look very nice.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

Some beautifully marked snowdrops there Hagen, G.Linientreu is very nicely marked.  Thanks for showing us.

[johnw]

Hagen - Some very special ones there, seems you are quite the Zauberer.  Thanks for posting, we have to keep these sleepy Galanthophiles awake these days.  

johnw

[Martin Baxendale]

Beautiful Hagen. Are these all selections from woodland nivalis populations or have some been raised in gardens from deliberate crosses?

[Martin Baxendale]

If any of the green snowdrops you've shown are from deliberate crosses, especially if they're inter-species hybrids, I'd be interested to know their parentage. What little hybridising I've done using snowdrops with virescent and green-tipped outers have so far produced disappointing results. I'm starting to wonder if the gene for green outer segment markings might be recessive, like the gene for yellow markings, so that it is necessary to cross two parents with green outers to get green-outer seedlings.