Galanthus in December

[johnw]

Brian  - Hadn't we started a list of snowdrops that had gone missing over there?

Maybe we should have an ongoing thread to which we could post new MIA ones.  Every year or so we could send that to Galanthophiles over here to see if any are in collections here.   Then of course we'd have to go through the laborious paperwork to get them back across the pond.

johnw  - +10c and cloudy,

[johnw]

Alan  - Of course you're absolutely right.  NBF has made it's appearance here relatively recently from what I can tell, presumably from imported bulbs.  And stag, well who knows how long it's been around, imported Hippeastrums are lousy with it and it's easily spread from them.

I hadn't heard that Matt's collection was affected, ouch.  I recall Ruby Baker's collection was wiped out as well, was that virus or stag?  And Helen Dillon's was downed by swift moth.  The list goes on.  So if you have collection that is in the ground back-ups in pots is a very wise move.  And vice-versa.

johnw - +10c & sunny   

[johnw]

Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Alex Duguid' today. G. plicatus 'Three Ships' is getting very close.

johnw  - +6c

[mark smyth]

Today while having a bit of a clean up  in the garden I was happy to see my Three Ships is back. It returned last year after several years below ground. I was even happier to see it has two noses.

Loads of snowdrops now have noses poking up.

[chasw]

Same here Mark,I am pleased to say

[Brian Ellis]

I shall wait patiently then

[steve owen]

The 10 December roll-call had 28% of my varieties showing compared with 48% last year, confirming the November picture that they are significantly later this year.

[Paddy Tobin]

A new book on snowdrops, "A Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops" by Freda Cox is due to be published in April 2013 by The Crowood Press.

 

[Lina Hesseling]

Thank you Paddy, for this information.
I like the books in this serie. 10 of them are translated into dutch by Hanneke van Dijk.
And now about snowdrops! Great!

Lina.

[Martin Baxendale]

I have a nice seedling from plicatus 'Three Ships' x reginae olgae flowering now. Must try to get a photo to post. The cross definitely took as the seed was from the plicatus but the seedling's leaves are much more reginae olgae.

[Carolyn Walker]

Maggi: I am having a lot of problems posting.  I would say one of three goes through.  Any ideas?  I will try again.

There was a typo in my post about 'Potter's Prelude'.  It should be monostictus.

I am looking for information on G. elwesii 'Zwanenberg', photo below.  I couldn't find it in the bible and not much on line.  Does any one know its characteristics, origin, history, etc?  I believe Zwanenberg was the main nursery of the Dutch family Van Tubergen.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi: I am having a lot of problems posting.  I would say one of three goes through.  Any ideas?  I will try again.

There was a typo in my post about 'Potter's Prelude'.  It should be monostictus.

  Carolyn, I have myself had some problems posting recently- I found that my internet connection was appallingly slow. Trouble is, it can appear good enough a speed but i can fall suddenly and that is where he problem arises. I suppose that the fact that the world and his wife are online at this time of year doesn't help!
Not something I can do anything about, I'm afraid. 

I have corrected your typo of  monostictus -
perhaps worth saying: Forumists may re-enter your own posts at any time to make such a change- click on the "modify" button over the post and you can edit it  there.

[Carolyn Walker]

Thanks, Maggi, will just persevere.  Thanks for explaining the modification process.

[johnw]

I am looking for information on G. elwesii 'Zwanenberg', photo below.  I couldn't find it in the bible and not much on line.

MarkS or DmitriZ to the rescue....

[Hagen Engelmann]

Carolyn,

there are different types of ZWANENBURG in the collections. Here is another. The important thing is the color of the ovarium. It is a yellow green, we say olive!!! It came from North Green in 1996