Galanthus January 2012

[Torsten Junker]

Happy new year to all!

A few pictures of some of my (rapidly increasing  ) Galanthus collection!

1: Comet
2: Rev. Hailstone ("officially" should this be 'Reverend Hailstone' or ' Rev. Hailstone'?)
3: Fenstead End
4&5: Fieldgate Prelude
6: Florence Baker
7: Gerard Parker
8: Helen Tomlinson
9: Henham No.1
10: Mrs Macnamara

[KentGardener]

Great pictures Torsten - always nice to see what others have in flower.

I notice how red your soil is so in colour.  Very different from mine.

[Webster008]

Happy new year everyone

Hello Torsten,

Really lovely pictures. I particularly like the Florence Baker pic.

[ScotsmanInKent]

Happy new year to all

Lets hope its a good one fro snow drops.

Nice pictures.

I like the Mrs Macnamara and comet.
Must be nice to have so many varieties coming through so early.

[Paddy Tobin]

Very unusual mild weather continues here and snowdrops are open far earlier than normal. Here are a few which were open today.

G. 'Anne's Millenium Giant'
G. 'Atkinsii'
G. 'Atkinsii' Moccas form
G. 'Ding Dong'
G. 'Florence Baker'
G. 'Godfrey Owen'
G. 'Richard Ayres'  - fabulous scent.
G. rizehensis
G. 'Winnifrede Matthias'

[loes]

very best wishes to you all

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Torsten,
your FIELDGATE PRELUDE has an unusual mark and looks very good.
Hello Kentgardener,
will you change your avatar often also 2012? How can I recognize you, when I come to GB??
Hello Peddy,
the weather is on your side, with such a lot of flowering cultivars. DING DONG is fine!

I can show you only the sails of THREE SHIPS.

[Paddy Tobin]

Hi Hagen,

We are having very unusual weather, very mild and bright, and the snowdrops are opening very early.
Your 'Three Ships' are looking very well while mine are going over.

Looking forward to your snowdrops when they open.

Paddy

[Torsten Junker]

Having looked fantastic for ages, 'Three Ships' is also just going over here.

[KentGardener]

Excellent - Good to see the main season photographs starting - I do really enjoy looking at all your pictures.  

'Three Ships' have sailed out of sight and over the horizon for another year here.  

'X-Files' has also faded very quickly this year.  But other flowers are starting to appear - a few pictures from yesterday.

1 - 'X Files' it's last flower of the year.

2 - 'Rogers Rough' (not my usual choice of flower as it is not 'different' - but I have found something very appealing about this one over the last few years)

3 - 'Moyas Green'

4 - 'Penelope Ann'

5 - 'Kencot Kali'

6 - 'Yaffle'

7 - 'Sickle'

Hagen - I shall try and find a different avatar  

[ichristie]

Hi all and Lang may yer lum reek, in other words may your chimney smoke for many years.  The snow almost cleared yesterday but another fall last night, the weather was warmer so G elwesii Discovery came out this is different to any other elwesii I have it lifts its petals up high looking like a helicopter not warm enough for that yet,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Tim Ingram]

Interesting to see those snowdrops from John. 'Roger's Rough' comes from Richard Bird's garden at Kilndown near Goudhurst (which he opens regularly for snowdrops in February). Richard helped Elizabeth Strangman at Washfield Nursery in the past and has a number of potentially interesting unnamed seedlings derived from there. Elizabeth and Graham Gough when working at Washfield distributed some superb snowdrops like 'Washfield Colesbourne' and 'Cicely Hall', along with so many other wonderful plants. 'Penelope Ann' is named for Ann Borrill at Wymondham near Norwich, who was secretary of the Crocus Group for many years and has a very fine collection of bulbs of all kinds in her garden.

[alpinelover]

Great snowdrops everyone.

Galanthus plicatus 'Colossus' (photo 1 and 2)
Galanthus 'Comet' (photo 3)
Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. vernalis (photo 4 and 5)

[RichardW]

what a lovely day 

few from the greenhouse.

Hans Guck-in-die-Luft

p x byzantinus ex Warham

and a Green Brush I got a little impatient waiting for it to open so took home 

[KentGardener]

Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. vernalis (photo 4 and 5)

Interesting to see some green marking on the ends of the outers  .  Mine are always completely white.