Galanthus November and December 2007

[Maggi Young]

There is nothing wrong with a bit of rounded fullness

Indeed, Brian, with a figure like mine I can only agree with that!

Martin, your snowdrops have impeccable pedigrees.... breeding will out, I suppose. I tend to find the chubbier drops more appealing than the slimmer types, pretty as those can be, and, of course, I contend that it is really only the difference between tubby ones and skinny ones that makes any difference between these snowdrops, anyway!

Since I am lucky enough to have Alec Duguid's entire AGS Journal collection ( bound volumes, at that) as well as some of his other books from his library, then I can also admit to a liking for any flower given his name... so I like your 'drop, too, Mark.

Now I'm off to lie down for a bit until this little attack of white fever passes.... or I may go out and drink in the charms of a perfect crocus... that usually does the trick

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Maggi,
I would recommend a good tranquilizer before lying down...

[ArneM]

@ 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. 

I wondered a bit but no problem. 

[Joakim B]

Martin B I would say Your looked a bit on the pink side. (To be honest I thought You tricked with it in photoshop) so I understand that You answered.
I am amazed how the white fever strikes so hard and fast 12 pages in a month and over 2400 views.
Luckiely I am a bit blind to it and to cheap to pay 10£ for a snowdrop even if that is considered a bargain.
Still very nice to read about the experience people have with this.

David regarding brining You wife to the gala and pushing Your wife might be better on that then You. Mine is better than me, on a bulb sale at the local garden club women +50 were better than most rugby players and my then pregnant wife was much more successful than I was in getting plants so maybe bringing Your wife will get the "shopoholic" in her going. My wife is not that interested in gardens either. She likes them but not the work so it was the event that got her going rather than the bulbs it self.

kind regards
Joakim

[Martin Baxendale]

Here's a slightly more in-focus shot of my first Gal. elwesii seedling of the season. It wasn't easy to shoot to show it to its best advantage. When you lift a snowdrop from the garden, pot it and bring it into poor light conditions indoors, it'll often go all floppy-stemmed and fall about at all kinds of odd angles so you can't get a natural looking pic of it! This was the best I could do. It wouldn't open up enough, even in today's bright sun on the windowsill, to show the nice heart-shaped mark.

[mark smyth]

excuses excuses! 

[mark smyth]

Can we see an enlarged version of the flower itself?

[vanhouttewim]

Hello!
Galanthus plicatus 'Three Ships' and 'Collossus' are allways early flowering,
Do you know other early flowering varieties of Galanthus plicatus?
around cambridge there are many woods with carpets of Galanthus plicatus.
are some of these also early - flowering?
Wim

[Martin Baxendale]

Can we see an enlarged version of the flower itself?

Just for you, Mark:

[mark smyth]

very nice. thanks

My success story has been with 'Colossus', c40, but this year not one is poking up through in the garden. Some in a pot are up. Last year the first was open on December 5th

[Martin Baxendale]

Wierd season - my Colossus are well up, ahead of last year, as well as loads of others, but it's not usual for me to be ahead of you, Mark, out in the middle of the Gulf Stream!

[ian mcenery]

Martin is there really a pink tinge to your seedling or is a trick of the light?

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin is there really a pink tinge to your seedling or is a trick of the light?

Just a trick of the light I'm afraid. Don't know where the slight pink tinge is coming from in today's pic - it was taken in daylight with nothing red anywhere near it.

[mark smyth]

there are some true 'orange' snowdrops out there. I must try and get some sent to me

[loes]

I`ve got a question for the experts:
are the elwesii monostictus always flowering ahead of the elwesii elwesii and cultivars?
and:are elwesii monostictus with no cultiver names,all counted as hiemalis?