Author Topic: Snowdrops in March 2012 (Read 61473 times)

Sinchets · « **Reply #255 on:** March 18, 2012, 05:27:28 PM »

This Galanthus elwesii caught my eye today with its yellowish tinge to the ends of the inner petals.

Brian Ellis · « **Reply #256 on:** March 18, 2012, 06:04:35 PM »

Quote from: wolfgang vorig on March 18, 2012, 04:43:26 PM

my Galanthus Pucoliformis

A nice plump one Wolfgang

johnw · « **Reply #257 on:** March 18, 2012, 07:11:08 PM »

Ken spotted this in the front garden, an aberrant triple-header with one flower with yellow markings and another partially yellow. Do we get to choose three names for it?

johnw.

Valentin Wijnen · « **Reply #258 on:** March 18, 2012, 07:15:45 PM »

To me a very special one... This is what I found yesterday. Before looking at the pics,...this is a Galanthus elwesii. Does anyone on the Forum know of other poculiform ones like this? Of course I do know about the existence of (pure white) pocs like 'the Bride', but is a poculiform 'greentipped' elwesii seen before?

johnw · « **Reply #259 on:** March 18, 2012, 07:24:59 PM »

Valentin - That is wild. Very beautiful, there's your fortune! Now we need a new botanically correct descriptive....

johnw

razvan chisu · « **Reply #260 on:** March 18, 2012, 07:30:12 PM »

could this be elwesii?

Anthony Darby · « **Reply #261 on:** March 18, 2012, 07:36:13 PM »

What an amazing find Valentin!

mark smyth · « **Reply #262 on:** March 18, 2012, 08:26:43 PM »

well spotted Valentin!

Hagen Engelmann · « **Reply #263 on:** March 18, 2012, 08:43:33 PM »

Hello Valentin, I hope there is not only one bulb you found? It is very unusual, what you found.

Valentin Wijnen · « **Reply #264 on:** March 18, 2012, 08:51:14 PM »

Hagen, John, Mark and Anthony
It's a pity, this is indeed a single bulbed find. This was the most special finding. I also discovered several four- and five- petalled ones, distinct green-tippeds and a very good, distinctive chimere Galanthus elwesii.

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #265 on:** March 18, 2012, 11:38:27 PM »

Quote from: johnw on March 17, 2012, 08:52:48 PM

Speaking of greens, everyone is in green here today and not a sober one under the age of 25 to be found.

johnw

Same here John. I asked someone on Saturday why, as a Scottish city (by inheritance anyway) we don't celebrate St Andrew's Day when everyone at the market was wearing green and around town too. The answer came back very smartly. "No booze involved."

Anthony Darby · « **Reply #266 on:** March 19, 2012, 12:29:33 AM »

St. Patrick would turn in his grave. St. Patrick's day is an American institution that seems to have spread like a plague across the world. The Irish (or the Scots, for that matter) don't need an excuse for a booze up.

johnw · « **Reply #267 on:** March 19, 2012, 12:31:55 AM »

Quote from: Lesley Cox on March 18, 2012, 11:38:27 PM

...why, as a Scottish city (by inheritance anyway) we don't celebrate St Andrew's Day.....................
The answer came back very smartly. "No booze involved."

Almost choked on that one. Ha they nae been to Scotland or Nova Scotia? They'd have to sober up to celebrate.

johnw

Anthony Darby · « **Reply #268 on:** March 19, 2012, 01:30:23 AM »

I think they have finally made St. Andrew's day a public holiday in Scotland?

Thomas Seiler · « **Reply #269 on:** March 19, 2012, 10:28:42 AM »

Some more green snowdrops:
'Big Boy'
'Green Teeth'
'Oliver Wyatt's Green'
'Shades of Green'
'Lohengrin' (my own seedling, a plicatus, -grin is pronounced like green in English)
'Sophie North'
'Tubby Merlin'
'Merlin'
'Wasp'

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