snowdrops in April 2012

[Oakwood]

not at all, Hagen!
thanks, John! want make an experiment with my Chuguyster - to try infect a normal plant of nivalis just to see is it contagious infection that lead to such phenotype or it is smth else........

[johnw]

Dimitri - Wonderful snowdrops.  And you grow them outdoors in the garden there?

Can you tell us something of your climate in Kiev?  Do you have hot dry summers, late springs?  I see you say Zone 5 so I assume you can fall to -26C to -32C (-15F to -25 F).  Is this with snow cover as a rule? Rainfall?

Keep posting.

johnw  - +5c & sunny

[Natalia]

Spring has come to us ... first appeared on Saturday Galanthus caucasicus ... The last 40 cm of snow are disappearing at enormous speed. And this is what came out of the snow yesterday during the day.

[Brian Ellis]

Gosh Natalia, in your second picture is the alpinus sitting in a depth of water or is it ice?

[Janis Ruksans]

My last indoor snowdrop - Galanthus krasnowii - not sufficiently hardy outydoors here.
Janis

[Hagen Engelmann]

Janis, the pic is best, the name of the pic is OK.
But what do you mean with Galanthus worinowii???

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, the pic is best, the name of the pic is OK.
But what do you mean with Galanthus worinowii???

Oh stupid Janis Mistake in printing - now corrected.
Janis

[Hagen Engelmann]

Galanthus krasnovii - it`s very special. I like it also very much.
I thought it is hardy enough for East Germany. But it is not!!!
So I learnt this winter the same lesson like Janis.

[Oakwood]

the last pics of them at me - end of bloomtime

G. krasnovii ex Abkhazia - overwinter outdoors in my garden in SE Ukraine
my lovely Liussia)) 14 years old
G. trojanus - hope this time it would be with seeds))))
G. plicatus variegata Savrasska, Crimean selection
G. nivalis Chuguyster with flower stalk that grows all time!

[Oakwood]

Dimitri - Wonderful snowdrops.  And you grow them outdoors in the garden there?

Can you tell us something of your climate in Kiev?  Do you have hot dry summers, late springs?  I see you say Zone 5 so I assume you can fall to -26C to -32C (-15F to -25 F).  Is this with snow cover as a rule? Rainfall?

Keep posting.

johnw  - +5c & sunny

Thanks, John! yes, these species I grow in my garden in SE Ukraine, outdoors. This isn't in Kiev (that is more in the North of Ukraine) but in Donetsk. Hot summer, severe continental climate, rainy autumn till December, snowy January till March, it could be frosts up to -24C but with snow

[mark smyth]

lovely plants Natalia

This morning some white in one of my troughs caught my eye. I have two very late G. elwesii Michael Myer's Green Tipped

[Natalia]

Thank you, Mark!
  I would like to show more snowdrops, but can not do it, as we all do: (

[Hagen Engelmann]

Natalia, why not???

I like the very late pics from "far" east.
You bring some more long weeks in our Galanthus season.

[Maggi Young]

Natalia, why not???

I like the very late pics from "far" east.
You bring some more long weeks in our Galanthus season.

Hagen, I think it is because we cannot post photos to the Forum at this time. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

OK Maggi, I understand.