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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Leena on April 05, 2023, 08:40:10 AM
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'Mrs Macnamara' in an early spot. For the past week every night it has been flat on the ground when temperatures have been -10 - -15C, and every day it gets up again. It is so tough!
Now the very cold nights should be over, and snow starts to melt.
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Yesterday was warm and sunny day, and first butterflies had woken up.
Snowdrops in my earliest spot,
first 'Trumps'. I think the yellow is from cold nights.
'Rosemary Burnham'
'Lady Elphinstone' is very nice.
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In woodland beds snow is slowly melting and snowdrops are coming through it.
'Diggory' and Crocus tommasinianus.
'Straffan'
'Green of Hearts'
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Leena, beautiful pictures!
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That's right, great pictures!
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They are even more beautiful coming through the snow Leena!
Great pictures :)
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Here's my garden at the tail end of the season, 'Polar Bear' in the foreground and an unnamed plicatus behind it.
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Тhe last snowdrop is overblow.
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Galanthus platyphyllus
This spring was very warm and there will be lots of seeds.
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Galanthus 'Spindlestone Surprise'
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Alan, 'Polar Bear' seems to be very late and extends your snowdrop season nicely. :)
Stefan, is your G.trojanus a late one?
Mine seems to start flowering quite early, it is always trying to come up through snow, and when it is still too cold.
It suffered in winter 2022, but is now ok, so I hope it will start to increase. I don't know if I should move it to a spot where snow melts later,
right now it is in an early bed. These were grown from Holubeck seeds.
In the same bed grows G.elwesii 'Tuuliku 2', a snowdrop found in Estonia (Taavi Tuulik). It increases and grows well here.
G.trojanus is in the background in the second picture.
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'Polar Bear' is one of three named snowdrops that have been on sale at every garden centre in the UK that I have visited this year. The other two are 'Beluga' and 'Snow Fox'. They're all examples of Galanthus elwesii and 'Polar Bear' is the most distinctive because it is particularly late-flowering. I presume they have been "mass produced" in Holland. If so, they're the first named snowdrops to have been propagated in large quantities and they seem to me to be an odd choice if someone has mastered a technique that could be applied to any named snowdrop.
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I'm so sorry, it's my fault! Thanks Leena for reminding me.
The photo is of Galanthus platyphyllus, this snowdrop is the latest to bloom in my garden.
I fixed my mistake!
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Leena, your 'Diggory' in the snow is especially beautiful! I can't believe you still had so much snow couple of days ago! Here, some varieties are quite worn out already, like 'Lucy' and 'Trimmer'. At the same time, 'Wessex Titan' is still coming up and there is no sign of G. platophyllus jet (I hope there will be any time soon). However, very warm (+15) and sunny days make the season short.
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'Polar Bear' is one of three named snowdrops that have been on sale at every garden centre in the UK that I have visited this year. The other two are 'Beluga' and 'Snow Fox'. They're all examples of Galanthus elwesii and 'Polar Bear' is the most distinctive because it is particularly late-flowering. I presume they have been "mass produced" in Holland. If so, they're the first named snowdrops to have been propagated in large quantities and they seem to me to be an odd choice if someone has mastered a technique that could be applied to any named snowdrop.
Alan, thanks for the history of 'Polar Bear'.
Yes, why haven't they propagated any even more distinct and pricier snowdrop?
Leena, your 'Diggory' in the snow is especially beautiful! I can't believe you still had so much snow couple of days ago! Here, some varieties are quite worn out already, like 'Lucy' and 'Trimmer'. At the same time, 'Wessex Titan' is still coming up and there is no sign of G. platophyllus jet (I hope there will be any time soon). However, very warm (+15) and sunny days make the season short.
Thank you Villu. :) This spring is the second late one in a row, and snowdrop season will be very short here. I hope next spring will be better.
Snow is melting fast, days have been almost as warm as in Estonia, but nights are still below freezing. They should get warmer this week.
Couple more pictures of snowdrops coming through snow from yesterday.
'Treasure Island'
'Phil Davis'
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Snow has melted fast, now almost all of it is gone. Days have been warm but nights still below freezing.
Some pictures of snowdrops.
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Many snowdrops suffered possibly from winter 2022 and then last years drought, and don't flower this year, but these ones do well.
The last picture is from a clump of garden center elwesii where one is very tall with all green inners. :)
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Many snowdrops suffered possibly from winter 2022 and then last years drought, and don't flower this year, but these ones do well.
The last picture is from a clump of garden center elwesii where one is very tall with all green inners. :)
Leena, still great snowdrops to show!
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It is good to see that weather and snowdrop season are picking up in Finland too, Leena! Great pictures! I like your naturalistic style. Here, it has been over a week now with temperatures around +13 to +14 and in some days even +16 to +17 degrees in Celsius. It means that spring bulbs are blooming in full speed. Crocuses were finished by five days! Snowdrops are little sturdier. However, first are going over too - like ''Glenorma', 'Lucy' and regular nivalis.
But as long as they last, I'm enjoying the best show ever! ;)
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Galanthus 'Spindelstone Surprise'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Virescens'
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Galanthus 'Sentinel'
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Galanthus plicatus 'Wendy's Gold'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Big Boy'
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And some more ...
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Galanthus woronowii 'Elizabeth Harrison'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Rosemary Burnham'
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Galanthus plicatus 'Trimmer'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Green Mile'
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Galanthus 'Amy Doncaster'
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... and more ...
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Galanthus 'Cowhouse Green'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Godfrey Owen'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Pat Mason'
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Galanthus 'Jaquenetta'
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Galanthus 'Brenda Troyle' - Leena, that's the tall floriferous variety you asked about. It is my tallest and really good performing plant!
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I will finish off with different poculiforms today. I like the way they all are little different.
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Galanthus plicatus 'E.A. Bowles' - classic beauty, very full flowers
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Galanthus nivalis 'Moreton Mill' - really lovely variety
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Galanthus elwesii 'Don Armstrong' - super plant! Very long blooming, strong growing, tall, very wide blooms on sunny day. It is it's second year from a single bulb!!!
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Galanthus elwesii 'White Perfection' - little different elwesii
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Galanthus nivalis 'Poculiperfect' - just perfect as the name suggest!
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Delicious photos, Villu! Thanks for sharing your flowers with us - that goes for all those taking the time to share here, too. Lovely to enjoy them.
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Villu, your snowdrops are amazing!!
They seem to multiply so fast for you, your soil and conditions are exactly right for them! Wonderful clumps. :)
'Brenda Troyle' is also so good in your garden. Mine has increased very slowly. 'S.Arnott' on the other hand is much more prolific here, and I have been able to divide it to many places. It is one of the best here.
'Godfrey Owen': I have two bulbs in different beds. The first one is in more dry spot, and doesn't flower (but has increased to two set of leaves in five years), so I bought another and planted it in more moist woodland bed where others do well, but no flowers there either in two years. I think it may be a too early variety and gets damaged by cold.
Besides yellows, poculiforms are also my favourites, but nothing to compare to yours. I seem to have lost my 'E.A.Bowles' but luckily I divided it couple of years ago and I have one bulb flowering now in another bed (the same one where non-flowering 'Godfrey Owen' is). So I'm happy it is still alive, and I have a good growing seedling from it (not poculiform).
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The past week temperatures have been high here, days 15-18C and nights just below zero, and very sunny and dry. So snowdrops and crocuses growing in the most early bed are now over, but in woodland bed they still flower and in some are now at their best.
These pictures are from last week.
'Hugh Mackenzie'
'Lerinda'
'Greenish'
'Trumps', still some flowers looking yellow because of cold when it came up.
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'The Pearl'
'S.Arnott' has been the best increaser here.
'Bambino', very cute
'Phil Davis'
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'Wendy's Gold'
'Grave Concern', planted last autumn. Does anyone know where it got it's name?
'Moreton Mill'
'Poculi Perfect'
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G.nivalis is still one of the best here.
'Straffan', I'm not sure I could tell this apart from nivalis, but it is a good doer, too.
'Big Boy' almost died in winter 2021-22, but now it has recovered and seems to do well.
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Lots of lovely 'drops there, Leena!
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Thank you Maggi. :) Snowdrop season is always too short here, but I enjoy them so much. :)
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It is good to see that snowdrop season is in full swing now in far North, Leena! Just unfortunate, that it is so short. It was little bit longer for us here in Estonia but compared to Western Europe, it is still just a brief moment. Oh well, we have to accept what we have, Leena! :).
Yesterday we had +20 degrees and it was very warm, like the summer! Most of the snowdrops are over now in my garden. Only the very last ones still persist. I doubt if E.A. Bowles will carry on until May, like usually.
My last nowdrops, photographed 23.04.
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Galanthus plicatus 'E.A. Bowles'
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Galanthus plicatus 'Augustus'
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Galanthus 'Cicely Hall'
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Galanthus 'Melanie Broughton'
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Galanthus plicatus 'E.A. Bowles'
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And some generals shots to get the idea of the progress...
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'E.A. Bowles' in the middle
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Snowdrop Bed
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Snowdrop Bed
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Villu, your 'E.A.Bowles' is amazing! It is such a good and big snowdrop and when it grows so well in your garden it is fabulous.
Here 'Cicely Hall' is just coming up, and this morning I noticed the nose of 'Fieldgate Tiffany' which has always been my latest snowdrop to flower.
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Hi Vilu
Gresat looking snowdrops, you clearly have ideal conditions for growing the species'.
I live in new Zealand and trying to grow snow drops, some success but not always.
Would you be prepared to collect seed from your poc varieties, doesn't have to be hand pollinated. I colud send you double helleborus seed in exchange.
Regards and thanks
Jeff
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While the middle part of April was unusually warm the last week temperatures have been low, days around +8- +10C and nights around zero, so there are still snowdrops flowering. Crocuses went over fast as did many Hepaticas, but Corydalis came up just when temperatures got cooler, so they are doing ok.
Most of these pictures were taken a week ago, so many are now going over.
'Ballerina' has increased well here, and I divided it last summer.
'Trinity' also a good doer.
Same goes with 'Greenpeace'
Yellow snowdrops suffered from winter 2021-22, but at least they are alive.
Two pictures of 'Primrose Warburg'
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'Midas'
'Copton Trym'
'More the Merrier'
'Wol Staines'
'E.A.Bowles', I'm so happy I divided it some years ago, because it has vanished from the original spot.
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This poculiform from Austria does well here, and it has become one of my favourites.
I like how it's leaves are almost flat, none of my other nivalis behaves like that.
Third picture is 'Springwood Park, which has been a really slow increaser. I have had it for 9 years and still only three flowers, yet it grows quite close the the Austrian poculiform.
'Priscilla Bacon' is a late one, and does well.
Tiny Estonian 'Kullake' flowering for the first time now. It is really small, smallest of all my snowdrops.
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'Glenchantress' is also one of my favourites. It suffered a bit the previous winter, but seems now ok and I hope it will start to multiply again.
I have taken many pictures of it, first two were taken ten days ago and the third was taken day before yesterday, so it came up late and goes over fast :(.
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Leena, nice snowdrops! Lovely combination with Hepatica's and Eranthis.
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Yes, very captivating planting and interesting snowdrops! Obviously, ´Trinity´is a very desirable snowdrop, and ´Kullake´looks more special, too.
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Thank you Herman and Mariette. :)
'Trinity' has done well here and I could have divided it already in two places. It was one bulb planted in 2019 so only four years old.
I hope 'Kullake' will do well, we'll see.
'Merlin' has been here for over 10 years now, but it is a very slow increaser in my garden. Here it is flowering with Scilla siberica yesterday.