Galanthus March 2011

[Brian Ellis]

Hans they are lovely, but the one you label as G.p.ex-U-CU is stunning

[Alan_b]

I was really taken by the other one ("ex-U").

[Hans J]

Hi Martina ,Brian and Alan !

thank you for your friendly words 

now I have to wait until fall for the next snowdrop flowers ....

Hans

[loes]

and so many...they are lovely

[Hans J]

and so many...they are lovely

Hi Loes ,

I have received those with "K" in year 2004 ....and those with "U" 2005 ....the multiplication is very slow ....
The first years i have tried to grow it in big pots but this was not so well now since they are in my border is it much better !
But this plants are really tricky !!!

Hans

[Natalia]

From amusing - here such form Galanthus plicatus with two flowers.

[steve owen]

A few pics from the garden today...

[steve owen]

and...

[steve owen]

and finally..

[TheNorm]

Lovely pictures Steve,

Rushmere Green and Francesca de Grammont are particularly lovely.

I've only got a couple of late gracilis and one or two allenii in flower now.  Have to wait until autumn from my next snowdrop hit at home.

Lewis

[freddyvl]

Steve, beautiful pics of very special drops (especially so late in the snowdropseason in the West) ! It's nice to see some different snowdrops. Thanks for sharing them with us. We should say: keep on going  Making a choice is very difficult because one is more magnificent than the other ! Do you also have 'normal' snowdrops ? 

[johnw]

and so many...they are lovely

Hi Loes ,

I have received those with "K" in year 2004 ....and those with "U" 2005 ....the multiplication is very slow ....
The first years i have tried to grow it in big pots but this was not so well now since they are in my border is it much better !
But this plants are really tricky !!!

Hans

Hans  - You say platyphyllus is tricky.  Can you tell us what it requires or more exactly what it does not like.

You certainly seem to have tamed the beast.

johnw 

[kentish_lass]

Lovely snowdrops Steve
Rushmore Green is beautiful - such a lot of green.

I had a quick look today and all I have flowering is Washfield Warham, Galadriel & Baxendale's Late

All over for another year sadly.  Now I need to get them all planted.

Here are a few photos of the raised bed I have created in the last few weeks.  It has been hard work but I hope it is worth it.  I have cleared the area of as many weeds and ground ivy that I could find.  The soil is raised almost 2ft in the centre and probably needs more as it settles.

I was going to add other woodland plants to give a longer season of interest but I am so pushed for time now that I may just plant the whole lot in there in lattice pots and worry about them when I have more time to spare.  It will be a very boring bed but at least they will be out of the net polytunnel where they are not happy in this recent warm weather.

1.  Preparing the bed
2.  Cleared of weeds and ready to top up with soil
3.  Almost finished bed with topsoil, leafmould and compost from our compost heap.  Will probably move the nivalis on the end when time permits.

Jennie

[Hans J]

and so many...they are lovely

Hi Loes ,

I have received those with "K" in year 2004 ....and those with "U" 2005 ....the multiplication is very slow ....
The first years i have tried to grow it in big pots but this was not so well now since they are in my border is it much better !
But this plants are really tricky !!!

Hans

Hans  - You say platyphyllus is tricky.  Can you tell us what it requires or more exactly what it does not like.

You certainly seem to have tamed the beast.

johnw 

Hello John ,

thank you for your interest .

Here comes some information's :
G.platyphyllus are really difficult to grow - special in my area!

The first years I grow it in big pots ...it has not worked- never flowers ....

Then I put it in big pots for waterplants ( mesh pots with a lot of peat ) and plant it on the coolest and wettest spot in my garden ...now it grows !

The problem is also the weather - if we have a year when the winter is cold and long ( without any hot days ) so this plants grows fine ...but if in January is warm and dry so the plants emerge ...and later if comes again cold days so the plants stop ....and abort the buds .

My G.platyphyllus are from friends which have visit Georgia very often together with botanists - so they have reported me very precise about the conditions in habitat – they shows me also pics from the habitats.

If you look in the Galanthus book from A.Davis so there are pics from  E.M.Rix  from the habitat –they grows on a very high pass ( around 2400 m altitude )....the snow is very long on this highest point of Georgia ...then in May it is smelting and the area is very wet .....soon as the Galanthus are ready with flowering comes a lot perennials  and cover all ....so there are again wet conditions ....and in September /October again starts with snowing .

I hope this will give you some ideas what this plants like ...

Regards
Hans

[steve owen]

Steve, do you also have 'normal' snowdrops ? 

Yes, but none still in flower! (apart from Baxendales Late).