Snowdrops in March 2012

[Brian Ellis]

Friends are in Vancouver, BC for a month and have been ordered asked to photograph every snowdrop they see. 

 

[Sinchets]

A few more Galanthus elwesii flowering here- a few with green markings on the exterior like a cat has scratched them and one with a little green man inside.

[KentGardener]

A few pics from my little patch today.  I really am 'scrapping the barrel' for my 2012 pics.  Many of these flowers are past their best - but they made me smile while taking the photos.

1 & 2 - I think someone asked a question about these two flowers earlier during this season. I found these ones in my suitcase when I got back to the UK after visiting Germany last year.  These are first year flowers for me so may not be of any help in a valid ID.

1 - 'Doncasters Double Charmer' (Avon)

2 - 'Double Charmer'  (Monksilver)

3 - 'Hugh Mackenzie' - opened up in the sun today so seemed worth another pic.

4 - 'Lydiard Diana' - it has reached the stage where I think I am now likely to struggle to ID all the named nivalis pocs!

5 - 'Mrs Tiggywinkle'  - Possibly a small flower during it's first year here? after being given it as a very kind gift.

6 - 'Fuzz'

7 - 'Fanny' - a flower that will be faded by tomorrow!

Things really are past their best here!  But these are a few pics that have made me smile today and I hope they will make you smile too.    

[art600]

Where are the rest of the photos? 

[johnw]

Ten celsius and sunny here and the snowdrops have popped in Ken's garden.

We checked the frames, everything in flower in the south-facing frame, perhaps some pic later. The north-facing frame is still quite frozen. G. elwesii Maidwell L is first out in my garden.

1 nivalis Anglesey Abbey
2 nivalis Flore Pleno
3 elwesii Maidwell L
4 elwesii Maidwell L
5 elwesii
6 Dionysus

Today is a perfect example of how we are affected by the surronding salt water, here 10c while Helen in New Brunswick is positively sweltering and watching her snow disappear. 

johnw

[johnw]

One snowdrop we never see on the Forum is nivalis Funny Justine, a really desirable oddity from Cathy Portier.  I wonder if it later manages to open?

johnw  

[chasw]

Nice to see Mrs Tiggywinkle ,John mine is just leaves this year but.....................I have one flower nearly ready to open on Boyd's Double 

[Webster008]

A few pics from my little patch today.  I really am 'scrapping the barrel' for my 2012 pics.  Many of these flowers are past their best - but they made me smile while taking the photos.

They certainly made me smile John

Double charmer and Hugh mackenzie are beauties.

[Thomas Seiler]

Flowering for the first time in my garden, Galanthus nivalis 'Chrome Yellow', a new snowdrop from Monksilver.
Does anybody know more about it?

[steve owen]

One snowdrop we never see on the Forum is nivalis Funny Justine, a really desirable oddity from Cathy Portier.  I wonder if it later manages to open?

johnw  

John, I might be able to help you next year.

[Alan_b]

A funny little yellow 2x2 I came across today.  It's in an area that seems to produce yellow snowdrops; this one was very small.  Perhaps it didn't have the strength to produce 6 petals so could only manage four?

[johnw]

John, I might be able to help you next year.

Thanks for the offer Steve but getting snowdrops to Canada can be a daunting task with red tape and permits aplenty.

john

[johnw]

A funny little yellow 2x2 I came across today.  It's in an area that seems to produce yellow snowdrops; this one was very small.  Perhaps it didn't have the strength to produce 6 petals so could only manage four?

Alan - You certainly have a knack for finding these things. Have you been working round the Hadron Collider?

A friend has had numerous crinkly and contorted plants arise in his Vancouver garden. A round-leafed crinkly Prunus laurocerasus comes to mind.  He thinks it has something to do with the fact he was one of the first New Zealanders into Nagasaki after the horrid destruction.

johnw

[bulborum]

I found this one in-between my Galanthus elwesii ssp. monostictus

Roland

[johnw]

Not often I get seed set on Galanthus indoors but trymnot was the last non-reginae-olgae.corcyrensis type to set seed.  After repeated pollinations this winter the cross of my trymnot (formerly Trym impostor) x elwesii 'Rosemary Burnham' appears to have taken strongly with a nice fat pod.  The reverse cross failed and again that cross was done repeatedly.

Now the long wait.

johnw