Snowdrops in February 2012

[daveyp1970]

I agree with Alan get some water round the roots. Your bulb needs to stay healthy until it goes dormant.

Anyone got any ideas about a foliar feed for new aquisitions?

Mark i am using a mineral spray that  farmers use round these parts,i can find out the name for you.
Can i just add a pic of one off my finds from 2010 had to take the flower off as i have just spilt the clump into individual bulbs and was to windy to take a pic outside.

Brian what do you think

[Brian Ellis]

Nobody can accuse you of walking round with your eyes shut Davey, lovely snowdrop, well done.

[Hakone]

Snowdrops in garden today

[daveyp1970]

A couple of pics of a Poc i found in 2010 just for you Brian(i have sent you a pm)




Galanthus nivalis sandersii group ex Lowick


Galanthus nivalis  viridapice

[annew]

Well done, Davey. Your poc is a stunner!

[Brian Ellis]

Indeed it is and so is the Lowick form of sandersii!

A quick whizz round the garden in this lovely sunshine this morning, how nice not to be trussed up like a dog’s dinner just to be warm as we were yesterday with our visitors!  I must get out there soon and do some work

These caught my eye:

‘Cider with Rosie’ which has an inverted chevron at the tip of it’s outer segments.
‘Maidwell C’ - just for Mark
‘Anglesey Abbey’ a great green leaved poculiform
‘Viradipice’ a good green tip
Colour from Crocus ‘Pickwick’

[Brian Ellis]

Some more:

‘Lodestar’ another Anglesey Abbey selected snowdrop, our visitors reminded me how good it looks in a clump
‘Lady Elphinstone’ sorry about the sun in the picture but I’m not complaining!
‘St Pancras’ this has three aberrant inners which lengthen as the flower ages, but I like it.
‘Mill House’ green tipped, long pedicel, split spathe, super selection by Cliff Curtis.
Colour from Eranthis ‘Orange Glow

[Brian Ellis]

I must go and do some tidying up

‘Josie’ another difficult one to photograph, but she is a good one - some of these are flowering from the smallest of last year’s offsets - one bulb bought last year and this is the result (and I gave a large offset away).
‘Alan’s Treat’ they laughed at the name, but isn’t he lovely?
‘Floccon de Neige’ flowering for the first time for me, perfection, a gift from an extremely generous forumist, many, many thanks.
‘Aurelia’ named for a tune by Samuel Wesley and Ray Cobb’s house  in Nottingham, a fine, large-flowered snowdrop.
Colour from Crocus flavum?

[Brian Ellis]

Well perhaps I'll have lunch first

No apologies for another picture of ‘Corrin’, she is rapidly becoming one of my favourites.
As is ‘Swanton’ a gift from a new lurker on the forum a few years ago, what a stunner!
‘Gloucester Old Spot’ is just (?) a neat little snowdrop with a small mark - another gift from a forum member, I hope it’s not raining in Madeira.
Aldgate - which one I am not sure yet, thanks Davey I think it’s a lovely plant.
This snowdrop comes from a friend’s garden where it is labelled as double devastation.  Visiting a garden on their route home from the Gala one year, a group of friends liked the look of two of the snowdrops in the garden.  The owner said "Would you like one?"  (a fatal question I have always found).  She dug up the first clump and gave them some of that snowdrop, replacing the few that were left.  They decided it ought to have a name and one of them said ‘Devastation’ as they had really decimated the clump.  They couldn't think of another name for the other apart from 'Double Devastation' as that clump too had been decimated!
Colour from Crocus tommasinianus

[Maggi Young]

No apologies for another picture of ‘Corrin’, she is rapidly becoming one of my favourites.

I think "she" is a "he", Brian 

 edit : My mistake ! 

[Maren]

My G. Jonathan is somewhat floppy, leaves not as turgid as the others and flower stem drooping. Could this be a sign of dryness at the roots?

It is probably a sign that water is lacking but it could also indicate that the roots have been damaged or have succumbed to pest or disease.

Hi Alan_B, I would hope not as it came from Glen Chantry. I'll give it a drop to drink. Thanks for the advice.

[annew]

What an amazing shape of flower on Swanton, Brian, very distinctive.

[Lina Hesseling]

I can fully understand your love for Corrin! She/he is great.
But Swanton is a beauty too.

Nice that you added some colour in your messages.

Lina.

[Paddy Tobin]

Brian, that was a great whizz around the garden; lovely selection of snowdrops and little bits of colour also.

Paddy

[daveyp1970]

Well done, Davey. Your poc is a stunner!

Thank you Anne and Brian she is a little cutie.