Galanthus in November 2011

[Anthony Darby]

I thought it was a spring flowering species?

[emma T]

I as i understood it, snogerupii should flower around about December, Ikarie in the spring. My snogerupii was i actually flowering on the 30th of October.

[Anthony Darby]

Maybe it tells us something about the coming winter, or perhaps the previous one?

[Anthony Darby]

The photos from Glen Chantry in 2010 show it flowering mid-February.

[emma T]

maybe ?  I am not sure what, if anything its telling us about the weather, past or future .

Its nice to have it flowering this early on the one hand , on the other it does look a bit silly, as i can still see the dahlias in flower across the  garden !

[emma T]

I have only had it 3 years. First 2 years its flowered in Early December, this is its 3rd flowering for me .

Do you think it could be some other sps of snowdrop ? or is it just growing a bit weird for me ?

[Jo]

My G. snogerupii is just coming into flower.  I understood it to be the ' autumn flowering version of G. ikariae ', which for me is quite a late season snowdrop.  

I have about 5 different clones of G. reginae-olgae in flower at the moment.  Thankyou to Arthur and John for those. Its really exciting to have the snowdrop season start so early.  I will post some pictures of them later.

[Anthony Darby]

It looks right, and I think many plants choose to flower earlier or later according to the vagaries of the seasons in the UK.

[bulborum]

Thanks Emma

this explains everything

Roland

[RichardW]

my first drop (other than r.olgae) opened yesterday, no idea what variety it is but looks nice in the dogwood leaves.

[bulborum]

looks like G. elwesii monostictus

Roland

[Jo]

That's a good early elwesii Richard, a nice big, dark inner mark.  I've got 'Fieldgate Prelude' showing buds already.  They are ones which I moved last spring so maybe that has encouraged them to get going.

Here are a few pics of G. reginae-olgae clones.  They are all different sizes, or different inner marks. The first two are planted in the garden and the next three are in pots.

[emma T]

my first G. elwesii monostictus has already flowered and gone over, it was up first week of October . It flowered at Christmas last year.

[Martin Baxendale]

Interesting how this unusually mild weather is allowing/encouraging the snowdrops to develop earlier than usual, especially after the very cold autumn last year that held everything back so much.

[Roma]

Galanthus corcyrensis is starting now.  It usually flowers for me from November to February.  Who needs all these different 'drops when one variety will flower for so long.  Last winter it was held back by the weather and did not start flowering till February.