Galanthus April 2011

[Natalia]

John,thanks your!
G.krasnovii resistant in my garden, but they are in nature is well tolerated frosts, perhaps even a necessary condition for them. But the conditions of the garden, very wet spring, very wet soil. In nature, populations of G.krasnovii clearly confined to the water stream - watch it on the lower limit of altitudinal distribution.
 G.krasnovii suffered frosts, 2009, when it was -32 with a layer of 3 cm of snow, but in spring 2010 of the bulbs did not come out to the surface and I thought I had lost some of the selections. But even after the heat of last summer they bloom.

[alpinelover]

and some more photos ...

Nice pictures, Natalia, hardly to believe there are now growing snowdrops. Today here in Belgium, it was 26,5 °C. The leaves of the snowdrops are almost disappeared.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Natalia. Super plants. From a distance your krasnovii look like platyphyllus.

[loes]

very nice to see those krasnovii`s,Nathalia
they really like your place

[Maggi Young]

It is good to see the snowdrops still giving pleasure from colder climes.

At the Alpines 2011 conference I was delighted to meet a fine galanthophile, Olive Mason. What a charming lady she is , so very good humoured about the teasing that the galanthophiles take here on the Forum but then again she is a calm and reasoned person!  http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=173239

Yesterday I was given a G. Primrose Warburg from a kind visiting Forumist.  I'm pleased to have a reminder of that lady in my garden.

[olegKon]

Yes, Maggi, the garden here is full of Snowdrops. As usual we have everything flowering almost together here. Some snowdrops new for me this season
1. Lady Elphinstone from Susan Band
2. Ophelia

[Oakwood]

Thank you, colleagues!
 I also like Galanthus woronowii_2008, it is larger than the growing number of G.woronowii. Oakwood has suggested that perhaps it is a hybrid with G.krasnovii.

Not at all, Natalia, I've never suggested that your G. krasnovii or giant exemplars of G. woronowii had hybrid nature with G. woronowii.

[Natalia]

Dmitry, I do not understand all the talk about the big G.woronovii. As far as I can remember - a hypothesis put forward about the hybrids. At the same time a conversation polyploidy. What is true?

[art600]

As all my snowdrops have finished I am delighted that I now have my 'Snowdrop' tree - Halesia carolina 

[Brian Ellis]

Excellent forward planning Arthur

[Maggi Young]

Excellent forward planning Arthur

Isn't it just? 

[Natalia]

Colleagues, I ask to forgive - has wrongly placed the answer in Russian.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Natalia, no problem a lot of east german can translate a little bit Russian. But English is much easier (only my English not )

[Martin Baxendale]

No problem for me either, Natalia. My wife speaks and reads Russian, so I have a translator in the house