Galanthus R.I.P.

[johnw]

my Ketton are only just poking through, they're planted on a large bank with quite a lot of different ones and seem to be latest...

Richard  - I will poke about some more.

johnw

[kentish_lass]

My definite losses so far are

Three Ships (had a second pot)
Angelique
Ketton (had a second pot)

No Shows - 24 at the moment.....

June Boardman - had this 3 years and it always remained one bulb
Modern Art (have a second pot) - showing through
Kildare - showing through
Bertram Anderson
Tubby Merlin - got the lattice pot out...and it is alive!
Snow White - ROTTED AWAYApril Fool
H Purcell - alive
George Chiswell - showing through
Ivy Cottage Corporal - cannot find yet
and the list goes on......

have marked them all and will check from time to time....and hope    In a week I will remove the ones in pots and investigate - or should I do it sooner?

Jennie

[Sean Fox]

Ouch Jennie,

Hopefully all are not losses but time will tell.

I must admit I've already checked on my no shows growing (or not) in pots and my worse fears were realised.

I haven't checked the ones not showing in the garden yet as these can tend to be a little later than my pot growing ones (probably because I plant them quite deep).

[loes]

so many losses Jenny...sad
about H Purcell,I tried this one 3 times,the rotten thing died always the next year.

[johnw]

Jennie - Sorry to hear about your possible losses. Keep your fingers crossed.

In Excel I've kept a running tally over the years of varieties by pot that have passed on, some were duplicates, many not - lines 451 to 540.  

SRGC seeds arrived yesterday. 

johnw  - +10c and raining.

[kentish_lass]

Jennie - Sorry to hear about your possible losses. Keep your fingers crossed.

In Excel I've kept a running tally over the years of varieties by pot that have passed on, some were duplicates, many not - lines 451 to 540.  

johnw  - +10c and raining.

I am really hoping that many will show through yet - I really did try to do everything right in the two new beds and that is where most of the losses are.  I am wondering if they were too dry in the summer....but I thought they needed dry summer dormancy.  I did water the beds a few times to keep the Hellebores, Hacqueta, Ferns and Brunnera alive that are planted with them.

I must do an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of everything.  When it comes to elwesii, plicatus and nivalis named snowdrops do you list by name with ie. elwesii after the name or just list by groups with elwesii in front of the name?  Does that make sense?   I will try to start it tonight.

My swathes of nivalis in the ground in the woodlands that have been there years are now just showing their tips above ground.  So we are quite far behind here.

Jennie

[steve owen]

Jennie
There is plenty of reportage of snowdrops that "disappear" for a year and then return. Obviously not big clumps in one go. If it happens to me I wait that year, meanwhile picking up a fresh bulb of that variety if I can do so at reasonable cost.

[steve owen]

Jennie

I have dozens of varieties yet to appear - and I know they will.

[Alan_b]

There is plenty of reportage of snowdrops that "disappear" for a year and then return.

When transplanting snowdrops in the green I occasionally find a bulb that has not produced any shoots (or roots either, I think).  Whether it ever does again I'm not so sure. 

[kentish_lass]

Jennie

I have dozens of varieties yet to appear - and I know they will.

That is a great consolation Steve.  Of the ones that are not up by the time I go to Vincent Square - I will look out for replacements if the price is right.

Alan - I have had several bulbs that never made roots or shoots and just sat there and presumably eventually rotted, or they may one day surprise me and reappear though I doubt it.

I feel able to cope with the losses more this year than last year and thankfully most of my really special ones are ok for this year anyway  

[steve owen]

Some varieties are so difficult to grow so success with one is so much sweeter. In 2007 I had Savill Gold from one of the few growers. It declined to appear in the Spring. Did the same in 2008. In 2009 I grovelled (hard) and got a third bulb. It sulked and got Stag. I dug it up, removed all traces of Stag by peeling the bulb back to a central stalk, and interred it with a prayer. In 2011 three wispy leaflets arose like first year twinscales. This year the three look less like wisps and one has a FLOWER!

[Maggi Young]

Some varieties are so difficult to grow so success with one is so much sweeter. In 2007 I had Savill Gold from one of the few growers. It declined to appear in the Spring. Did the same in 2008. In 2009 I grovelled (hard) and got a third bulb. It sulked and got Stag. I dug it up, removed all traces of Stag by peeling the bulb back to a central stalk, and interred it with a prayer. In 2011 three wispy leaflets arose like first year twinscales. This year the three look less like wisps and one has a FLOWER!

 Ian has been addressing this sort of thing, from a different angle: the survival of "stripped" bulbs, in this week's Bulb Log .... that lad must be psychic
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Feb011328099277BULB_LOG_0512.pdf

[Brian Ellis]

Some varieties are so difficult to grow so success with one is so much sweeter. In 2007 I had Savill Gold from one of the few growers. It declined to appear in the Spring. Did the same in 2008. In 2009 I grovelled (hard) and got a third bulb. It sulked and got Stag. I dug it up, removed all traces of Stag by peeling the bulb back to a central stalk, and interred it with a prayer. In 2011 three wispy leaflets arose like first year twinscales. This year the three look less like wisps and one has a FLOWER!

Congratulations Steve

[Martina Kopsieker]

Makes me wonder if they were too wet last summer
[/quote]My blonde ing hasn't shown itself either ?

Thats interesting! I lost Blonde Inge, too, and I had two bulbs in two different spots!


Martina

[steve owen]

Martina
No sign yet of my two pots of Blonde Inge either, but there are too many in each pot for them not to appear. Hang on in there!
Steve