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mark smyth

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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #570 on: January 29, 2012, 03:51:55 PM »
yes thats one
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #571 on: January 30, 2012, 01:34:22 AM »
I have gotten some private messages from forumists who seem interested in snowdrops in the US so I thought I would post photos of the first of my snowdrops to bloom in 2012.  I am in the mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania).  Everything is blooming early here, and all the snowdrops pictured usually bloom at the beginning of March.  I was especially amazed to find blooming 'Flore Pleno' and have included a photo because it is usually one of the last of my snowdrops to bloom.  Other than G. elwesii, which starts in November and goes through March (the clump in the photo is my March-blooming patch), 'Kite' was the first to bloom on January 25.  Carolyn

1.  G. elwesii
2.  G. nivalis 'Flore Pleno'
3.  G. plicatus 'Augustus'
4.  G. 'Kite'
5.  G. 'Kite'
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #572 on: January 30, 2012, 03:32:15 AM »
Lovely healthylooking plants Carolyn.  Kite looks very impressive in your climate.   You're months ahead of us, many are up but an inch and that through frozen ground.

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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #573 on: January 30, 2012, 05:04:48 AM »
Hi Carolyn

Nice to see the photographs of your snowdrops.  I think I can see at least two different clones in the clump of elwesii and, if they were growing here, would be tempted to try and seperate them into two distinct clumps so that all the green tipped ones were together.  Perhaps that is just my OCD talking!   ;D
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #574 on: January 30, 2012, 10:17:14 AM »
Nice photos Carolyn - Kite looks lovely and has just gone on my 'wish list'  ;)  This season I am attracted to larger flowers with very long outers (including poculiforms) - the bigger and taller the flower ...the better.  As already mentioned your plants do look lovely and healthy - you are so lucky to be able to plant direct without the worry of NFly or Swift Moth larvae.

No fog or rain here today (yesterday was thick fog most of the day) and I am off out to take some photos.

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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #575 on: January 30, 2012, 01:29:42 PM »
Good eye there John. There appears to be one hiding in the extreme lower left fore corner with the marking a litle higher up the outer.

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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #576 on: January 30, 2012, 02:24:14 PM »
Carolyn, while the train spotters (  ;D  ) are dissecting your 'drops for minute differences...  may I comment on your lovely photographs ?

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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #577 on: January 30, 2012, 02:34:20 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on January 30, 2012, 02:24:14 PM
Carolyn, while the train spotters (  ;D  ) are dissecting your 'drops for minute differences...  may I comment on your lovely photographs ?



Thanks, Maggi.  I think I said before that I have been planting bags of dried G. elwesii bulbs off and on since 1996.  I have two large patches with varying bloom dates and all sorts of combinations of marks.  If I have time I will photograph the different marks.  Someday I do hope to have time to separate them.  I am glad everyone is interested in seeing photos of what must be "ordinary" snowdrops to you.  Maybe it will encourage more lurkers to post.  Carolyn
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #578 on: January 30, 2012, 06:06:18 PM »
A few pictures from Fullarton Woods taken today. They are probably very similar to those I have posted over the last several years but it's still a cheery sight to see in the cold ,gloomy Winter
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #579 on: January 30, 2012, 06:19:54 PM »
If you do not need only the snow drop specials, than your nature looks fantastic.
I like these white spring carpets under old trees.
The sun is shining, the air is a little bit warm, but only in the sun
and there is only silence around you with only some birds.
This is galanthus time.
And there is some smell in the air, like honey.
And you are happy!

So it is in Fullarton Woods, or???
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #580 on: January 30, 2012, 06:32:49 PM »
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #581 on: January 30, 2012, 07:12:10 PM »
It looks like a fairytale.

Thank you for showing this, TC.

Lina.
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #582 on: January 30, 2012, 08:27:05 PM »
We have a local wood a little like this and with that low misty light and all that Hagen says, there cannot be a better place to be... but our little dog is more interested in chasing the rabbits!
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #583 on: January 30, 2012, 09:13:13 PM »
Tom what a display. Who cares if you show us something similar every year, its well worth showing  8)

Angie  :)
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Re: Galanthus January 2012
« Reply #584 on: January 30, 2012, 09:16:13 PM »
Quote from: kentish_lass on January 30, 2012, 10:17:14 AM
Nice photos Carolyn - Kite looks lovely and has just gone on my 'wish list'  ;)  This season I am attracted to larger flowers with very long outers (including poculiforms) - the bigger and taller the flower ...the better. 

Jennie

Hi Jennie and anyone else interested,

Kite has just been listed on ebay, see link below....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GALANTHUS-KITE-RARE-SNOWDROP-/180808469224?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item2a19064ae8

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