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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2020, 03:16:52 PM »
G. peshmenii
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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2020, 09:24:28 PM »
Galanthus reginae-olgae is doing well in the rock garden at Wisley, photographed last week;


I bought a snowdrop labelled G. reginae-olgae 'Cambridge' from the Wisley plant centre which has slight green smudges on the outer petals.


This one is G. reginae-olgae 'Uranium', difficult to photograph but there is a distinct green glow to the petals. 'Adamite' is similar and looked very green when it first opened but faded quicker.

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2020, 10:26:41 PM »
Rainbow Farm Early on 19 October, I don't think it's flowered this early before.

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2020, 11:04:48 AM »
Galanthus elwesii Naomi Slade

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #19 on: October 23, 2020, 07:46:00 PM »
Galanthus elwesii Naomi Slade
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'Naomi Slade' is a selection of G. reginae-olgae Gerd not elwesii, described as "an early flowering form appearing in September/October and has very large, wide-petalled flowers with a solid green mark on the inner petals". My plant is flowering now so not particularly early and I wouldn't say the flowers are any wider than other forms although perhaps they will increase with age?

And whilst on the subject of Galanthus that are not elwesii - last month I posted a picture of my Galanthus 'Kinn McIntosh' which had been sold to me as an elwesii cultivar but the leaves didn't look right - more like reginae-olgae but with a slightly folded back plicatus edge. Last week I spoke to Bob Brown (who in reference to Maggie's comment "I've  read  that Bob Brown of  Cotswold  Garden plants  found  this  in the  garden of the  person for  whom it  is  named  - in 1946  !!   Bob must  be  older than I thought!!" says he was only one year old then). He says that he was told it was a form of G. byzantinus. This is now considered to be a subspecies of G. plicatus which makes more sense looking at the leaf characteristics. Bob's plants weren't up but he is going to have a look when they appear and see if they are the same as mine;
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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2020, 09:06:59 AM »
Thank you Gail - it seems I have to have a closer look at my labels!

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2020, 02:52:50 PM »
Some Galanthus in the garden this week:
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G. reginae-olgae flowers opened nicely with 20 degrees Celcius earlier this week.
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G. reginae-olgae 'Casper'

G. bursanus opened up and yes, it actually did smell very sweet up close.
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Just a bunch of normal g. reginae-olgae.

Newly acquired g. peshmenii about to flower. Looking forward to 'Green flight'.
For galanthophiles:
Check http://www.snowdropwiki.nl
A wiki, for snowdrops.:)

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2020, 02:43:10 PM »
Some autumn-flowering snowdrops out now. I'd rather be indoors photographing today!
These show variation in one batch of seedlings from G. reginae-olgae x peshmenii

These two are maybe my favourites with large flowers




Autumn Beauty is performing well this year after taking a few years to bring it back to health from a dodgy start in a garden centre


« Last Edit: October 27, 2020, 02:46:11 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #23 on: October 27, 2020, 02:47:53 PM »
Galanthus reginae-olgae Eleni came into the house bearing a passenger!




Galanthus reginae-olgae Tilebarn Jamie is another fine cultivar.


These two are the same species - both G. peshmenii. The more compact, small-bulbed form on the left, and the bigger, beefier Kastellorizo form on the right.
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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2020, 11:39:46 PM »
Some early blooms in Virginia, USA, on All Hallows Eve

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #25 on: November 01, 2020, 05:29:43 PM »
Nice  to see  these  do well for  you outside, Timothy - I'm not  so lucky here in Aberdeen.
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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #26 on: November 01, 2020, 06:48:51 PM »
Reginae-Olgae in the second year form a nice group:
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Galanthus peshmenii came again too:
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Remember Remember freshly planted some weeks ago is lurking:
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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2020, 08:11:20 PM »
Thanks for all the lovely photos,does anybody know what’s going on with this peshmenii.

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Re: Galanthus October 2020
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2020, 08:13:33 PM »
A different angle

 


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