Galanthus March 2011

[TheNorm]

Martin,

Both are lovely flowers.  Dinky is an understatement.  Very cute indeed.

How tall is the gracilis x plicatus please?  What are the leaves like.  I'm imagining a far broader version of that lovely grey-green gracilis leaf?!

Lewis

[Martin Baxendale]

This plicatus x gracilis isn't one of my tallest ones but still a decent size - 21 cm to the tip of the spathe. The outer segments are 2.6 cm long. It's in a pot this year (waiting to be chipped) so a bit smaller than it would get in the open ground. Leaves half-way between plicatus and gracilis.

The dinky seedling is 12 cm tall. But has been drawn up under glass. Outside, probably closer to 8 or 9 cm.

[TheNorm]

If it is not too presumptuous of me Martin, could you think of me for a swap when you have a spare bulb of each of those please?

Thanks,

Lewis

[mark smyth]

I like the first one.

[Martin Baxendale]

Have to chip them both, and then probably chip them again to bulk them up, so will be a few years. That's the problem with deliberate crossings and raising from seed rather than finding clumps self-sown in old gardens - the bulbs are younger and tend to be much more vigorous and healthy but it's a long wait until there are enough to distribute, which is frustrating for me and those who see them and like them.    But I'd rather show them now, so some small enjoyment can be had from them even if it is just a single flower in a photo, than hide them away for years until they've been increased.

[Martin Baxendale]

The tiny one is a seedling from 'Bertram Anderson', would you believe? You can see it in the shape of the flower, but the size is a surprise. You never really know quite what you're going to get!

[mark smyth]

Opinions on this large Galanthus. elwesii or ikariae or ...

[TheNorm]

For my money it is ikariae or a selection thereof.  Perhaps a bit of plicatus folding to the leaves?!  Unusual ovary shape in relation to ikariae.  Bolder marking than on my plants too.

Outer segments look right though. 

Importantly, looks beefy and imposing. 

L

[art600]

Here is an elwesii that started flowering last week - and looks a lot like Jennifer Owen.

This patch of elwesii bloomed in November the first year I moved to the bungalow.  Flowering time has not been consistently early and this year is very late - presumably because of the severe winter

[Pauli]

Hello,

yesterday I tried to look for special forms of Galanthus nivalis in our woodlands. It is the peak of flowering now and there were billions of flowers over miles along the river Danube!
I have been on a very special place, where Galanthus and Leucojum grow together. I found only one special Galanthus: A greentipped form. A friend  was luckier and found a puculiforme-clump.

Interesting was a special group of Leucojums with very open flowers - we called them "Flatterling".
Of course I collected some the see the variation in my garden!
Here some pictures:
1 woodland with white carpet
2 Galanthus and Leucojum growing togethet
3 greend tipped form
4&5 Leucojum "Flatterling"

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks for posting these Herbert, I love to see the woodland with snowdrops like this.  The L.'Flatterling' is good too.

[TheNorm]

I'll second Brian's comments Herbert.  Lovely to see a wooded area adorned with bulbs.

Love your Leucojum, like the spokes of a wheel.

Lewis

[Gerard Oud]

There are lots still flowering over here!
Just a selection from a Very Big plicatus, almost twice as big then Diggory!
And a yellow nivalis and my nivalis with Diggory look still doing well!

[daveyp1970]

Opinions on this large Galanthus. elwesii or ikariae or ...

Mark is that your clump.

[Rob]

The Big Bopper, just a selection from a Very Big plicatus, almost twice as big then Diggory!

Gerard,
The big bopper sounds like it would make a good garden plant.