Galanthus January 2012

[emma T]

Wow is right     

[kentish_lass]

Two Galanthus, both bought at garden centres as G.elwesii, clearly not. The one with 3 flowers I have had since 2008 and I have already been able to give one to a friend, and the other I bought last year. I presume that they are G.woronowii
Janette

Blimey - wheres your garden centre 
They are a fantastic find - now start looking for ones just like this but in yellow 
Jennie

[RichardW]

I'm definitely going to the wrong garden centres, that's an amazing find.

[johnw]

We had close to -11c last weekend.  Today we were promised a snow storm followed by 30mm of rain.  A skid of snow by 3pm and it's now raining. Just checked in the yard and 'Cambridge' is standing up and looking not bad save for tiny brown tips, no doubt from being out now for more than a month. What a tough little flower.

johnw

[Warren Desmond]

Two Galanthus, both bought at garden centres as G.elwesii, clearly not. The one with 3 flowers I have had since 2008 and I have already been able to give one to a friend, and the other I bought last year. I presume that they are G.woronowii
Janette

What a lovely little drop Janette...looks like a gem that one...

Warren

[mark smyth]

wow Janette, brilliant finds and more so that they are stable.

Years ago when I worked in a garden centre I bought all the green tipped nivalis which were actually woronowii. I beavered away repotting the bulbs so I could buy the green tipped ones. They have never been green tipped again

[mark smyth]

Janette does you ?woronowii have a small or large inner mark?

[Janette]

Mark,

The ?G.woronowii with the three (actually now four) flowers has much smaller inner marks than the one with the single flower. I will try to take a photo on Sunday if that helps. The leaves look identical on both plants, so I think that they are the same species and have assumed that they are most likely to be G.woronowii, although the label is G.elwesii. How does it happen that these plants are wrongly labelled as I often see them incorrectly named for sale?

Janette

[mark smyth]

Thanks for the additional info. New green tipped woronowii are very exciting.

[RichardW]

Richard - have you noticed the wonderful scent on 'Pear Drop'? 

I haven't, am about to go and raid the greenhouse to take some with me when I go away tomorrow morning so I'll stick them next to the log burner for a while, I've got hundreds of bulbs in the G/H at the moment and the scent this afternoon was amazing.

[kentish_lass]

Or Slagger - Snowdrop Lovers' Annual Push Punch & Elbow Reunion.

  

[mark smyth]

Does anyone know a twin scaped elwesii monostictus with very thick outers that cant be opened with the snowdrop pinch?

When I plant snowdrops in troughs I plant them around the edges. This one is in the middle which makes me think it 'died' and I recycled the pot contents. It came up last year and it's back again now.

[David King]

A nice little snowdrop:  Hobbgoblin

[johnw]

David - Wonderful that you have made your debut on the forum.  Hobbgoblin is lovely and the pix on your site are exquisite.

johnw

[David King]

Not quite my debut John, that was this time last year! Decorating ever since then.