Galanthus December 2011

[Jo]

Hi Arthur, I've just had a look at 'Warley Belles' which is in full flower in my garden. It is a plicatus with green stripes on the outers just like yours, and it has a single ,dark inner mark that nearly covers the entire inner.  Its too dark and wet outside to take a pic, maybe tomorrow.

The elwesii's you sent me are well up in the pot,  are they usually quite early ? 

[art600]

Jo

The earliest they flowered was in 2003 when the whole patch erupted into flower on November 1st.  This year I had dug up and replanted the bulbs and they started into bloom mid November.

I think they are a good robust elwesii.

[bulborum]

Some selections from Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus

Roland

[David Nicholson]

A little quote below from an Article by Nigel Colborn in the January edition of The Garden. The Article is titled "Snow-bloopers"

""Yet, in intensively snowdroppy gardens, I've heard rapt visitors cooing over oddities with yellow where the green should be, or with dirty olive smudges on their outer segments. I was shown one with a comically cross face, called G elwesii 'Grumpy'-which is what it made me-and G. nivalis f. pletiflorus 'Walrus' which resembles a part-dismembered spider. My most-loathed, G. nivalis f. plentiflorus 'Blewberry Tart' has amorphous flowers that look like the gunk you pull out of a jammed lawnmower......."

Maybe he'll give The Gala a miss?

[KentGardener]

 

Made me laugh.

But......   

[Alan_b]

G elwesii 'Grumpy'-which is what it made me

We're still on the lookout for his cousin 'Happy', with a comically smiley face    .

G. nivalis f. plentiflorus

'plentiflorus' - that's a new one on me - or is it really 'pletiflorus' as David wrote the first time round?

...My most-loathed, G. nivalis f. plentiflorus 'Blewberry Tart' has amorphous flowers that look like the gunk you pull out of a jammed lawnmower......."

As always, the $64,000 question is what he makes of the ordinary and ubiquitous double snowdrop.

Maybe he'll give The Gala a miss?

Surely after a visit to the Gala he'll have gathered enough material for another ten articles in the same vein.

[Brian Ellis]

Well perhaps not Happy but 'Smiley' has been named Alan:

Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #540 on: February 22, 2009, 09:20:24 AM »

Edit by maggi to add actual link to post  mentioned:  
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2604.msg76659#msg76659

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[chasw]

I had Grumpy as a present from the sons..................................................no idea why though

[Maggi Young]

I had Grumpy as a present from the sons..................................................no idea why though

Probably just coincidence, Chas......

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks Maggi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Not very often I venture into this thread  , but I couldn't withstand showing you G. plicatus "Colossus" - flowering two months earlier than last season ! 

 

[Paddy Tobin]

Luc,

Beautiful flowers and well ahead of normal time. By coincidence, I looked at these in the garden here today and they are only just above ground, far from flowering.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

They really are early aren't they Luc, mine are about to flower too.

[johnw]

Poor photos but two that opened this week.

johnw   - +1c and sunny