Galanthus in January

[annew]

Saraband is a cracker, one to look out for in the future.

[ronm]

These plants would be interesting stock for a greeding program.   

??

[David Nicholson]

??

Maybe, but I'd prefer pork pies

[Oakwood]

I don't think there is any named cultivar that does this reliably.  Lots of snowdrops produce a second flower on a second scape (stalk) and several times I have found a snowdrop that has produced two flowers on the same scape once but never (yet) to be repeated.  But snowdrops that reliably produce two flowers on the same scape are hard to come by.  'Mrs Thompson' comes quite close but usually the two flowers are fused together.  I'm sure in time two-flowered snowdrops will emerge but I don't think it has happened yet.   

yes, Alan, two-scapes drops aren't really rare in the wild, but reliably with two flowers on one stalk.....  it should be somewhere in their genom as they had a common multiflowered ancestor with Leucojums and I hope one time such mutant stable allele would appear in the wild, then in our gardens, in a manner like poculiformis morph allele appears from time to time from the wild collections.

[Oakwood]

There is of course this one:

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8483.msg234174#msg234174

which we are thinking of calling 'Saraband' if it displays a full quota of double flowers this year

very showy, Brian - thank you! want to hope it is a well doer every year

[Oakwood]

We have a plicatus (hybrid?) that makes a scape with twin flowers,  see this Bulb Log:  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Mar211332339999BULB_LOG__1212.pdf
We're calling it 'Craigton Twin' ( devastatingly imaginative, huh?)

ohhhhh, Maggi - nice plant!!! love, love love      I wonder how it would be fat the smaller flower on a stalk of your 'Craigton Twin' in my hot climate allowing to warm up a bulb in our steppy summer 

[Maggi Young]

ohhhhh, Maggi - nice plant!!! love, love love      I wonder how it would be fat the smaller flower on a stalk of your 'Craigton Twin' in my hot climate allowing to warm up a bulb in our steppy summer 

The photo in that Log is from a very cold March - it looks better when there is some warm sun to open the flowers- perhaps  it would be perfectly fat in the Ukraine- but in March, would it be out from under the snow?

[Oakwood]

surely out of snow!!! Maggi you know we have here very sunny March - the sunniest March all over the world!!! 

[kentish_lass]

Lovely finds Brian, Alan & Maggi - hope they prosper.

Nice photos Richard - the apple tree planting area is coming along very nicely.

Driving rain & wind stopped me going outside today but I will try again tomorrow and hopefully take some photos.

[Martin Baxendale]

Maggi, if you have some pollen to spare at some point from your twin-head plicatus I'd love to use it in my breeding programme. Pretty please 

[Alan_b]

Yes, Martin.  I was thinking of you when I tried to write of snowdrop breeding earlier. 

(Unfortunately a now-corrected typo transformed this into "greeding"; which turns out to be a real word - who knew?)

[RichardW]

two more seedlings that appeared near a large group of gracilis Highdown have flowered this year, unlike the others these have twisted blue foliage.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, if you have some pollen to spare at some point from your twin-head plicatus I'd love to use it in my breeding programme. Pretty please 

It'll be quite a while before it's in flower again, Martin- barely out of the ground at the moment. I'll try to get pollen for you but yours may all be over by the time it flowers.

[Martin Baxendale]

Thanks Maggi. I can always freeze pollen for use next year. But I re-potted a lot of my snowdrops late this year so they're behind where they'd normally be and will be flowering (those that are large enough to flower after my mass-chippings sessions of the last couple of years) later than usual.

[mark smyth]

Catherine Erskine has several twin spathed snowdrops. Here's some that I saw in 2006. Unfortunately my memory card crashed while there losing most of my photos