Snowdrops in March 2012

[carolesmith]

Thank you so much, Maggi. So it was Joe himself, who found it, and I have a little story to tell for visitors 
Bunch seems to have been found on the same trip.

Well done Maggi and Thomas.  The poculiform ex. Jedburgh recently shown by Brian and David was also found on the same trip with Joe, nine years ago now, hence a good size clump.

[Brian Ellis]

The poculiform ex. Jedburgh recently shown by Brian and David was also found on the same trip with Joe, nine years ago now, hence a good size clump.

I haven't got long to wait then

[Maggi Young]

Thank you so much, Maggi. So it was Joe himself, who found it, and I have a little story to tell for visitors 
Bunch seems to have been found on the same trip.

Well done Maggi and Thomas.  The poculiform ex. Jedburgh recently shown by Brian and David was also found on the same trip with Joe, nine years ago now, hence a good size clump.

Thank you, Carole, keeping us up to date and on the right track 

[Gerard Oud]

I dont visit old woodlands all the time. But this time i was invited to have a look in a old applegarden, where are for at least 60 years snowdrops are growing. Here are some pics for a impression.

[Gerard Oud]

Saved the best for the last A clump of tall Blonde Inge lookalike's next to another clump of normal ones! I did not expect to find anything different but when we had some closer looks i found these.
Like my late father used to say to me"You can catch fish with a pair of trousers".

[Maggi Young]

Gerard, it's time you got a new car!

And haven't those trees been pruned a bit too hard?  

Nice 'drops though.

[Gerard Oud]

Where we had a look they are going to plant cherrytrees. They cut down the old windfencetrees. That car is stuck there for at least 15 years, it has been from the owners late father. I do have a automaticgear car, but with a 6,3 liter v8 engine, car is made in the UK!
Oops and i forgot the last car i bought a 52 coupe de ville twice the size of that green Daf/Volvo

[Maggi Young]

That's interesting... .will cherries grow well there? 

[Gerard Oud]

For the petrolheads more pics of the car that is given back to nature!

The soil is fantastic over there! Its almost black from all the organic material in it! Everything will grow there besides Rhodos

[mark smyth]

Does anyone know a tiny elwesii that flowers now/late? It has very small leaves 6cm x 1.5cm and a 9cm scape. The inner mark is two tiny dots.

It was labelled Rowallane which is a mistake

[JimF]

Another poculiform. How will we tell them all apart, lovely as they are?
Maybe I should put some green, yellow, or double flower pollen on it. . . .

Galanthus nivalis 'Poculi-Perfect'.

[mark smyth]

I dont grow any pocs because I cant tell them apart. I found a population of them last year but just left them in place. Could have been the first Irish poc.

[art600]

I am sure this is a lost label snowdrop and would hope someone can give it a name..

The pot has 3 identical flowers

I have shown the inner mark taken with and without flash

[Martin Baxendale]

I am sure this is a lost label snowdrop and would hope someone can give it a name..

The pot has 3 identical flowers

I have shown the inner mark taken with and without flash

I'm hesitant to make any kind of definite id but were you ever given or did you ever buy Peg Sharples?

[mark smyth]

Possibly Peg Sharples