Snowdrops in March 2012

[Lesley Cox]

Without any pic?
It´s not a good begin.
I hope march will bring us a lot of galanthus flowers to show.

Maybe I'll show reginae-olgae when it comes up Hagen. Nearest I have at present is Acis autumnalis.

[Brian Ellis]

Yes, I looked it up too before I sent her an email David, I'm sure it's something as simple as a mix up somewhere in the labelling and she will sort it out.

Indeed it was, an error in labelling which she is going to rectify

[David King]

Some pictures from our visit to the National Collection of Margaret MacLennan in Essex.

1.  G ‘Eliot Hodgkin’
2.  G ‘Falkland House’
3.  G ‘Melanie Broughton’
4.  G ‘The Pearl’
5.  G ‘Two Eyes’
6.  G ‘Armine’
7.  Left to right: Janet Hammond, Margaret MacLennan, Jane-Ann Walton, Brian Ellis
8.  Margaret MacLennan and Brian Ellis

[David King]

A few more from our visit to the National Collection of Margaret MacLennan in Essex.

1.  G ‘Kite’
2.  G 'Mighty Atom ex Pottertons'
3.  G ‘Ransom’s Dwarf’
4.  G 'Squire Burroughs'
5.  G ‘Oliver-Wyatt's-Green’
6.  G 'Seagull'
7.  Now what’s in here?
8.  Even more

[Don B]

I always enjoy seeing the unusual snowdrop variants that pop up over there in your woodlands and gardens; with the modest patches that I have, I never thought anything striking would show up in my garden, but what do you think of this? In a clump of rizehensis, one of the bulbs has two flowering stalks (I checked carefully to make sure both stalks are arising from the same sheath). One of the two is typical rizehensis, but the other is larger in all its parts, and the flower is more open; it's more open because it has four outer petals, and six inners. I realize the possibility of this recurring next year is about nil, but it still seems interesting to me. Small bulbs from balmier climates get quite a shock when they pop up in my garden in the middle of Iowa, so I suppose about anything can happen.

[johnw]

David       - No wonder Brian's head was spinning.  Those frames are enough to spark vertigo. The numbers are staggering.

johnw

[johnw]

I particularly like that first rizehensis Don. Well done.

johnw

[RichardW]

  at those frames, looks like they're all in pots? lattice packed together or normal?

[KentGardener]

This is the only contribution I am likely to make to this brand new thread, but, hey, I got there before anyone else.

I knew you couldn't resist for the whole of march.   

[David King]

at those frames, looks like they're all in pots? lattice packed together or normal?

They are all lattice pots sunk in sand.

[steve owen]

Correction to yesterday's post; this is Envy, not Fee Clochette. Both uncommon at present. Also a nice patch of Alburgh Claw and two others.

[loes]

Looks like ' Alburghs Claw' has a bad hair day  .  (I like it)

[Brian Ellis]

Correction to yesterday's post; this is Envy, not Fee Clochette.

Phew, thought I'd got the wrong thing!

[mark smyth]

As a collection holder does Margaret have an official open day?

[Lina Hesseling]

Thanks for the pictures of Margarets garden. Does she have her snowdrops thrive in the boxes before she puts them in the garden? It is a great way, she can cover the boxes and keep nf out.

Lina.