Galanthus November and December 2007

[ArneM]

@ dominique

Do your G. caucasicus ( ) really have this yellowish colour?

[Martin Baxendale]

@ dominique

Do your G. caucasicus ( ) really have this yellowish colour?

No, the yellowish sheen on the leaves is just the indoor light shining on them. Had to take the pic indoors with the lights on as it was so dark and gloomy outside today, and I didn't want to use flash. I'll try to take a better pic tomorrow to replace this slightly out of focus one.

[ArneM]

It had been the second yellow G. elwesii...

[Maggi Young]

Martin, I do like the rounded fullness of your snowdrop............... there, got this one back to me!

[dominique]

Hi Arne
Yes the colour is good but I don't know if it was the same colour last year. It is only from I am new member of srgc  ( 1 month) that I look at these details. All galanthophiles have open my eyes on these splendid and various flowers. You are all responsable of my new desease !!! And I risq to ask you thousand questions about them and you say : Still Dominique, again,again,again, STOP !!! You are so good galanteachers and I am galantho...ill !!! Thank you everybody. My caucasicus hiemale is now elwesii monostictus, ok , noted.

[mark smyth]

I heard from Janis Ruksans that the true G. caucasicus has been found

[Martin Baxendale]

@ dominique

Do your G. caucasicus ( ) really have this yellowish colour?

Sorry, I thought you were asking about my Gal. caucasicus pic!  Which is why I answered a question for dominique. 

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, I do like the rounded fullness of your snowdrop.

Praise indeed, coming from you Maggi!     The seedling has a good pedigree. It's from a large, very round-flowered G. elwesii that came, via my parents, from E.B. Anderson, and which I use a lot as a seed parent. This seedling's from a batch where I crossed the elwesii with G. plicatus, but in this seedling the cross doesn't seem to have taken (although it has with other seedlings) - sometimes difficult to tell, but this one shows no signs of hybridity, so it's probably pure elwesii as a result of self-pollination (I don't bother removing anthers from pollinated flowers - life's too short and I do too many pollinations).

[mark smyth]

very good colour Wim.

Martin I hope you show us a good close shot of your snowdrop! Do you use manual or auto focus?

[mark smyth]

Here's r/o vernalis 'Alex Duguid' again showing it's vertical stem

[Martin Baxendale]

very good colour Wim.

Martin I hope you show us a good close shot of your snowdrop! Do you use manual or auto focus?

I can't see Wim's post on the forum. Has it been removed?

Mark, I'm using auto focus but I was using your trick of focusing on my hand then taking the hand away. Didn't work in this photo. I was in a hurry. Will try to get a better shot tomorrow.

[mark smyth]

but better!

Yes his photo is gone

[KentGardener]

Mark, I'm using auto focus but I was using your trick of focusing on my hand then taking the hand away.

I think I must have missed this technique during my 5 month absence.  Could you point me ot the original post please. 

thank you.

John

[mark smyth]

what I do if the camera ignores the flower I want to photograph is to put my hand behind the flower when taking a macro shot. The hand must fill the frame. The camera will 'see' the flower and pull it in to focus. I remove my hand, hold the buttton down to re focus and take the photo. You dont have to this with an SLR

[Brian Ellis]

I do like the rounded fullness of your snowdrop

My goodness Maggie, is this a recognition of snowdrops!  Pick me up off the floor.  There is nothing wrong with a bit of rounded fullness