Galanthus March 2011

[Brian Ellis]

What a great woodland Gerard, I particularly like DSC00879.JPG,  the one with the large receptacle (or small flower).

[KentGardener]

What a great woodland Gerard, I particularly like DSC00879.JPG,  the one with the large receptacle (or small flower).

Snap   

I thought what a great big ovary!

and then thought - or is that a really small flower  .....

 

[Janis Ruksans]

I'm not galanthofile, but few I'm growing.
Here plicatus 'Cowhouse Green'whicvh I got from Chris Brickell.
Janis

[Brian Ellis]

It is a lovely galanthus Janis, and a nice present

[Gerard Oud]

John and Brian,  i took that pic by coincidence with flashlight! It looks like its made of glass, but indeed very nice!
For the good order, i was allowed to take them home

My favorite is DSC00874.JPG it looks a lot like Daglingworth but with very dark green leaves and no elwesii but a unidentifiable hybrid.
I found one elwesii with a complet face marking, i found out later that the pic was not that good.

[KentGardener]

A lovely picture of 'Cowhouse Green' Janis.   

[Mavers]

I like virescent snowdrops very much.......a lovely gift to receive Janis.

Mike

[Alan_b]

i will check to see if there is a pot about with that label, if there is then this is either not greenish or more likley the bulb somehow ended up in that pot, or the label was misplaced

Following a suggestion by KentGardener, I now use a silver paint marker pen (around £1.50 from Rymans) to number all my pots and I keep a list of what each numbered pot contains.  This gets round the problem of lost labels, but not the problem of bulbs walking from one pot to another (which, fortunately, is not something I have yet encountered myself). 

[Boyed]

Spring was relatively late this year in my country.
At the moment I only enjoy some early spring bulbs. native galanthus species as alpinus and artjuschenkoae are in bloom as well.

[TheNorm]

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

[KentGardener]

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.   

[Hagen Engelmann]

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

[Alan_b]

...Most of the woodland around me is very samey.  Lots of G. nivalis, but very little variation.

Do they set seed?  If I look in the nearby woodlands where I found a lot of diverse nivalis forms, there are huge numbers of seedlings, whereas I have heard talks from UK snowdrop luminaries declaring that the nivalis found in the UK are sterile.  I think the truth must be that some UK populations of nivalis are sterile, or virtually so, and some are fertile.

The moral is, if you find a snowdrop wood, look for seedlings.  Where there are seedlings there will be diversity.  If you cannot find seedlings then you are unlikely to find much variation either.     

[Brian Ellis]

A lovely display of G. artjuschenkoae Zhihrair, very pretty yellow. 

[Hans A.]

Your Galanthus artjuschenkoae are really eyecatcher, Zhirair!
Not a species I have seen very often (never in real life), thanks for showing them!