Galanthus in January

[Alan_b]

Catherine Erskine has several twin spathed snowdrops .... that I saw in 2006.

So potentially quite a few more by now.

[Maggi Young]

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

The centre photo looks to be a twin poculiform- now, that would be nice!

[mark smyth]

Maggi your language amazes me white fever is rubbing off. I dont like pocs because they all look the same but a twin flowered would be different

[Maggi Young]

Maggi your language amazes me white fever is rubbing off. I dont like pocs because they all look the same but a twin flowered would be different

For me the joy of snowdrops is the purity of a white flower in winter- so poculiforms are the extreme expression of that; perfect white purity.      'Seemples'!

[KentGardener]

Richard - great to have seedlings flowering.  All my open crossed seeds have been sent off to Canada for the last 5 years and I can't wait to see what starts to appear from the genetics present here.

Maggi - That certainly does look like a twin headed poc - wow! 

Mark, any other snaps of that particular one?

The 3rd one (gracilis?) looks lovely but I personally would think of it as a "one off" twin (ie: two flower with two completely individual spathes but joined on a shared scape) - a shame as that could be a beautiful twin headed one.

[Alan_b]

But how best to show off that perfect white purity, Maggi?  Surely by contrast with some green looking ones.  So better start saving up for a 'Green Tear'.

[Maggi Young]

I do not find 'Green Tear' to be attractive, Alan.
I have 'Green Brush' and  'Green Flake' ( and Ian has used the pollen on other pocs to see what happens  ) (Thankfully, I don't think he got much seed!)
Brush has  defined markings, as has Flake - my opinion is that I find the diffused markings on  Green Tear to look a bit muddy. Not to my taste at all.

[KentGardener]

I have a big smile on my face as I have had another day where I get an hour in the garden - in the dry - in day light.   

A few quick pics from my little Kentish garden.

1 - 'Sibbertoft White' - this was one of the first snowdrops I was ever gifted by my aunt when she was trying to "Get me to recognise the differences between snowdrop".  It seems to have worked!!!   

2 - 'X-Files' - this is really late for me this year - I have previously been enjoying this with my early Christmas snowdrops - late and "floppy" this year.

3 - 'Penelope Anne' - over the years this has slowly been working her way up into my top ten.  She is always doing well here and is always happy to display that lovely dark green block.

4 - One that has often put a contented grin on my face over the past seasons - 'Gerard Parker'.

[Ian Y]

I just found some more pictures of Galanthus 'Craigton Twin' taken on 20th March 2011 - one shows the group the other a detail of a flower.

It is stable with all mature bulbs producing the twin flowers on a scape.

I split it up last year into three small groups and passed a bulb on to another grower - later this year I will lift a bulb and twin-scale it.

[KentGardener]

Your lass is a beauty Ian.   

[Ian Y]

Your lass is a beauty Ian.   

The snow drop is not bad either

[KentGardener]

I've "ummed and arred" about this particular post as the flowers are quite immature that I probably should not have taken their pictures yet and they will look much better in a week or two.

But as I am unsure when I will get daylight hours in the garden during the 2013 snowdrop season I am trying to grab any pics when I can.

1 - 'South Hayes' (is going to look so much better in Feb).

2 - 'Finchale Abbey' - only just starting to show the lovelyt tulip shape.

3- - 'Bloomer'  - doesn't yet in 2013 show the "described bloomer feature" - but appeals to me even early in the season each year.

[Mavers]

Your Kentish plot grows beautiful healthy snowdrops John.

Do you ever get any 'don't shows' the year following planting?

[KentGardener]

A couple more as I was downloading the pics on my camera.

1 - Rodmarton Sirius

2 - Rodmarton Regulus

[Mavers]

Do you have any pictures of your lovely 'Green Flake' Maggi?

I remember seeing it in one of Ian's bulb logs.

Last night it was 15 degrees C down here in the SW in fact it was so mild the snowdrops that had opened during the day were still open in the dark & being blasted by the very strong southerly wind.