Galanthus in November 2011

[steve owen]

Nice healthy looking clumps Roma.

[Maggi Young]

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.

Ah, Roma, the voice of reason,  as ever! 

[Anthony Darby]

 

[Martin Baxendale]

I KNEW I'd regret the last two years' mass chipping of pretty much all of my best snowdrops. Now I have nothing to look at. 

[Gerard Oud]

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 and 
mass chipping of pretty much all of my best snowdrops!

That sounds like 2 perfect reasons to have more variety Maggi

[Melvyn Jope]

Another plant that is early for me this year, Galanthus Peter Gatehouse photographed between periods of torrential rain today.

[Paddy Tobin]

Melvyn,

A lovely group of 'Peter Gatehouse'.

Tell me, please, are these indoors or out? I ask  because I have this cultivar in the garden and there isn't any sign of it yet and won't be for some time to come, certainly not until after Christmas.

Paddy

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello Paddy, I have G. Peter Gatehouse both planted out in the garden and in a pot under cover, they are at exactly the same stage of development, much earlier than I would expect.
However in contrast to the experience of others my plants of G.snogerupii are only just showing, both of the forms that I grow have direct provenance to Andros, one from Ruby Baker and the other from seed collected by Peter Moore, so in this case I think there must be an autumn flowering form as well.

[Brian Ellis]

My 'Peter Gatehouse' is now going over Paddy, but it's the third time I have tried it and the first time that I have managed to keep it, for some reason it does not like my garden - probably too dry!  Amazingly my 'Barnes' has only just opened - not nearly as early as others, yet one that I gave to kentgardener was out some time ago, microclimates are everything I think.  In the spring my snowdrops are way behind everyone else's - but I enjoy them when they have nothing to see

[steve owen]

Paddy

I have a clump of Peter Gatehouse (in the soil) and the first nose is only just through.

[Paddy Tobin]

Many thanks for the information, folks, much appreciated.

Each year comes around and I look at the photographs being posted here on the forum and wonder why I never have any of these early snowdrops in flower. OK, G. reginae olgae simply does not grow in the garden here and I simply and happily enjoy your photographs but when I see the likes of G. 'Peter Gatehouse' fully grown and in full flower with you when it hasn't as much as peeped above ground here I am amazed. It's peculiar. I have no snowdrop above ground here yet.

Brian, you comment that your garden is dry. Mine is quite the opposite. I am very close to a river and it is always damp, foggy and misty here and the soil is always very wet over winter.

Paddy

[Alan_b]

My 'Peter Gatehouse' is now going over Paddy, but it's the third time I have tried it and the first time that I have managed to keep it, for some reason it does not like my garden - probably too dry! 

Oh, I don't think so.  Peter Gatehouse does well in my garden and I'm sure it's a lot drier here than in Norfolk.  The only place I have tried it that it didn't like was a rather cold spot.  But it does well under my climbing hydrangea in a south-facing bed so it gets full sun and thus plenty of warmth once the hydrangea has lost its leaves.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Melvyn, it`s a pleasure to see your fine group of PETER GATEHOUSE.

[Anthony Darby]

I second that. I'm hoping there is a good range of seeds in the seed distribution. My first Galanthus reginae-olgae seedlings are just showing. Was Galanthus snogerupii formerly known as a variety of G. ikariae?

[RichardW]

looks like G. elwesii monostictus

Roland

could well be, I did move some bulbs years ago but it's not marked in my book, ta.