Galanthus in January

[RichardW]

almost tropical today compared to this time last week trying to get mulching finished before we open at the weekend though not much to see...

byzantinus ex Warham (this is up there with Washfield Colesbourne & Peardrop as being a lovely well proportioned drop for me)
Little John
Lapwing
Daphne's Scissors
Elmley Lovett (mark seems very variable)

Apple Bank I started planting 5+ years ago, considering the terrible soil everything doing very well.

[RichardW]

last one...

[Oakwood]

last one...

what a picturesque winter situation, Richard  - I liked much your drop place under apple-trees.
per contra I have another winter picturesque table, may be a little bit siberic, but nice, as for me...
now in my garden there is 45 cm deep snow and it is entirely covered with snow my Mediterranean snowdrop cold tunnel    Happy New Year!
ps - there are one 15-years old Juniperus squamata behind my Conica and the same age Pinus mugo behind Forsythia at least I left them there in December yet....

[KentGardener]

Nice plants, Arthur, especially twin-bells Selborne Greentips. Is this feature really stable for this cultivar? And does anybody know stable twin-bells snowdrop cultivars, of course not of virus-nature....

I took a picture of the label on Arthur's pot.  It says:

"An elwesii with green markings on the outer segments towards the apex.  Early with often two well-formed flowers on the scape"

[Oakwood]

I took a picture of the label on Arthur's pot.  It says:

"An elwesii with green markings on the outer segments towards the apex.  Early with often two well-formed flowers on the scape"

thanks,  John! wanna find stable twin-flow snowdrop cultivar to grow, like in Leucojum vernum ))

[johnw]

Dimitri - I envy your snow cover.   We have been unusually cold for over a week and have only 7-10cm snow cover; as usual the most precious plants have none around their bases.

While we have not been to record low temps the persistent night lows are whittling away at things.

johnw - -4c, sun and feels balmy.

[Mavers]

Thanks for the pictures Dimitri your snowdrops will be in their prime when ours are going over........it will be all up to you then to entertain us with snowdrop pictures

[RichardW]

Rivers freezing over makes my few inches of snow look mild, does look amazing though 

what a picturesque winter situation, Richard  - I liked much your drop place under apple-trees.
per contra I have another winter picturesque table, may be a little bit siberic, but nice, as for me...
now in my garden there is 45 cm deep snow and it is entirely covered with snow my Mediterranean snowdrop cold tunnel    Happy New Year!
ps - there are one 15-years old Juniperus squamata behind my Conica and the same age Pinus mugo behind Forsythia at least I left them there in December yet....

[Alan_b]

... wanna find stable twin-flow snowdrop cultivar to grow, like in Leucojum vernum ))

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.     

[Brian Ellis]

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

[Alan_b]

Thanks, Brian.  I was aware of that one but I wasn't sure if you wanted to go public (forgetting that you already had).  And even then, I guess that the total number of bulbs in existence barely runs to double figures yet.

I really hope it does continue to perform, by the way.

[Maggi Young]

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.     

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?)

[Alan_b]

'Craigton Twin' is a nice snowdrop, Maggi.  But again, I presume there are not yet many bulbs in existence. 

[Maggi Young]

No indeed, Alan - but then again, I rather think one could say that for a VERY large number of other named 'drops 

It does show that there are such plants around though, which gives hope for the future.

[Alan_b]

And hope for Oakwood, who wants one.  He just may have to wait a few years.

These plants would be interesting stock for a breeding program.  How about crossing yours with Trym to get a double-flowered version?