Galanthus reginae-olgae

[snowdropman]

Franz - what a lovely clump of snowdrops - they look really great in the sun & very healthy!

[hadacekf]

Mark,
I have no  Narcissus fly!

[Paddy Tobin]

Great clump, Franz.

Paddy

[Tony Willis]

Martin I believe what you said earlier about the growers holding back snowdrops to keep the price high. There is a guy in Belfast micropropping 'Wendy's Gold'. I was there a few years ago and saw 10s of 1000s of them in all stages. The first have already gone to Holland for planting out. The big boys arent happy

As my wife is sat watching football I thought I would try and broaden my understanding of the snowdrop world and so can somebody tell me who or what are 'the big boys'

[Anthony Darby]

I don't know either, but just you wait until the boys are back in town. Eventually they will make a surreal TV serial about it called 'Twin Scales'.

[ian mcenery]

Franz your shot in the wild shows a marvellous display of Anemone pavonina - I really do like them
 

(see previous page Re: Galanthus reginae-olgae
« Reply #58 on: January 11, 2008, 08:10:50 PM )

[Diane Clement]

Franz your shot in the wild shows a marvellous display of Anemone pavonina - I really do like them
 

(see previous page Re: Galanthus reginae-olgae
« Reply #58 on: January 11, 2008, 08:10:50 PM )

isn't is Anemone coronaria

[Lesley Cox]

 If only one of them has been a tetraploid, we'd have had people deliberately breeding and selecting donkeys years ago.

You want to breed and select donkeys now Martin? I'm all for that. Nice creatures, donkeys. Suppose asses/mules are triploid too are they? So again, the further breeding and selection stop.

Following which profound contribution to this topic, I shall retire gracefully and return to irises.

[Anthony Darby]

Fortunately, polyploidy doesn't exist in the animal world. Animals are diploid (with the occasional haploid).

[hadacekf]

Ian, you are right it is Anemone pavonina.

[ian mcenery]

Thanks Franz I wasn't absolutely sure without a close up. I had a nice plant of this  last year but the wet summer may mean that it is lost. Do you grow at home?

[hadacekf]

No Ian, I lost it in a hard winter.

[Anthony Darby]

What is Anemone pavonina? I am  just  a little confused to it .,
Can you give me  more details about this.,?

Anemone pavonina is the Wind Flower:

http://www.ashwood-nurseries.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9

[Maggi Young]

I think of Anemone nemorosa as being the "windflower"   

[mark smyth]

A. nemerosa for me also. This goes to show why common names do not work