Snowdrops in February 2012

[Brian Ellis]

I think Robin Hood is one of the best, always looks good to my eyes Diane

[Maggi Young]

Tough, isn't it? One minute you're looking at some dainty little 'drop, tiny and unassuming, thinking how lovely it is, next your eye is taken by a big fat flower that is standing loud and proud in a windy garden and you  think... no, I like the chunky ones better.....  it's a very common problem isn't it... you love the one you saw last..... able to change your mind more often than your socks!

[mark smyth]

very few snowdrops left here now most are over due to the warm weather

[David King]

G Hugh Mackenzie in the garden this morning.

[zvone]

Hi!

Galanthus nivalis from Slovenia:



Best regards!  zvone

[David King]

This is SA 0902 in our garden today but found at the Greatorex garden during a visit made by Brian Ellis, John Finch, David Quinton and myself.


 

[Maggi Young]

Hi!

Galanthus nivalis from Slovenia:

Best regards!  zvone

Just emerging from under the snow ?!  

[Maggi Young]

This is SA 0902 in our garden today but found at the Greatorex garden during a visit made by Brian Ellis, John Finch, David Quinton and myself.

 Very smart twin flowers. The one we found (in Scotland) with twin flowers  is exbiting the same feature this year. Not so far advanced as SA0902 though, which is looking robust and handsome.  

[mark smyth]

Hugh Mac   MG

I like the twins also

[Paddy Tobin]

Found in the garden yesterday.

I found this snowdrop in the garden yesterday. It is growing beside a clump of G. ikariae. There seems to be two bulbs with the same foliage but only one with a flower. As you will see, the ovary is yellow and the inner segment mark a light green. The nearest yellow snowdrop to this position is G. 'Spindlestone Surprise'. I have posted a photograph of the flower which opened today; another of the foliage; one of it with the group of G. ikariae beside it (the snowdrop in question is in the bottom right of the photograph) and, finally, a flower of one of the G. ikariae in that group. The flowers on this little group of G. ikariae have always struck me as a little larger than normal. There is a group of G. ikariae very close to this position and it is smaller in all parts, foliage and flowers.

Does anybody see a resemblance between this flower and any other named snowdrop?

It might well be something new - imagines e-bay, making my fortune etc. LOL. And, of course, it may never appear again. Such are snowdrops.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I think it's a cow pat G. ikariae cause by the mulch

[Paddy Tobin]

That's not entirely impossible, Mark, as the mulch was applied this December. This was before the snowdrops had come over ground and other snowdrops in this bed were not effected in this manner though they had the same treatment.  Would the mulch not have made the foliage yellow/pale green also?
Next year may tell a different story.

Paddy

[Alan_b]

Here's a really weird snowdrop I saw in the woods today; its a 2x4 or is that a 4x2?  What I mean is that it has four outers and two inners arranged symmetrically.

[mark smyth]

I had a yellow Mark's Tall a few years ago and also found a group of about 20 olive green nivalis. All came back normal  

[RichardW]

That's not entirely impossible, Mark, as the mulch was applied this December. This was before the snowdrops had come over ground and other snowdrops in this bed were not effected in this manner though they had the same treatment.  Would the mulch not have made the foliage yellow/pale green also?
Next year may tell a different story.

Paddy

it doesn't look like a cow pat job to me, I see plenty here and the foliage/stems are usually showing signs of the same thing, it is lovely & hope it turns out to be stable.