Galanthus anomalies- "wrong" flowers

[KentGardener]

Thanks for the picture Mark, I've seen a few with fused stems like that in gardens I have visited this year - It's not an anomaly I had noticed in previous years (though I am sure it must have been there and I just didn't see it).

[Alan_b]

Here's a flower in a clump of Wendy's Gold where one of the petals ended up on the wrong side of the ovary. 

[mark smyth]

Could the hard frost have caused the strange flowers this year?

[kentish_lass]

Hello everyone

I am new and joined the forum today.  I live in Kent and have been growing Galanthus for years but got seriously addicted in the last two years.
I have an area of woodlands where I grow single and double nivalis and rarely pay them any close inspection.  A few days ago I was looking at them wondering whether they should be split and I spotted a small clump of yellow flowers with bright yellow foliage.  The ovary and sinus mark is yellow and the leaves are bright gold - not patchy but solid gold.  The flowers are quite tiny.  Is it usual to find snowdrops with yellow foliage?

I have lifted them and planted them in front of a Cornus sibirica where they absolutely glow.  I will post a photo when I can work out how to do it.

I am glad to have found this forum and have been reading the posts for hours.
Jennie in Kent

[kentish_lass]

This is not an exceptional photograph as there was very bad light - but you can see the foliage colour
Galanthis nivalis yellow seedling - there were 24 bulbs in the clump!

I hope I have posted the photo correctly - as a first timer

[kentish_lass]

  Sorry photo far too big.  I reduced the file size but do not know how to make the photo smaller.
Jennie

[KentGardener]

Welcome Jenny, from another Kent resident.

Nice looking nivalis.  Will be interesting to see what it does next year in it's new location.

[Alan_b]

Welcome Jennie, from another Kent resident.

Nice looking nivalis.  Will be interesting to see what it does next year in it's new location.

Welcome Jennie.  Sometimes snowdrops that have been starved of light, buried under a mound of leaves for example, can look very yellow when they emerge.  So be prepared for a disappointment next year - but I hope they come back yellow again.

[Brian Ellis]

I am glad to have found this forum and have been reading the posts for hours.

It's nice to have you with us Jennie, I am sure you will get many more hours of enjoyment from it.

[Paddy Tobin]

Welcome to the forum, Jennie, and that was an interesting first post, a lovely snowdrop and, hopefully, it may repeat this next year.

Best wishes, Paddy

[bulborum]

Hallo Jenny

try this program on next site
http://www.efpage.de/eTinypic.html
its in German and English small and easy program
make a map tiny pick on your desktop to store the pictures
after sending them you empty the map

Roland

[Maggi Young]

Sorry photo far too big.  I reduced the file size but do not know how to make the photo smaller.
Jennie

Welcome Jennie, good  to have you join us.
I have resized your photo .....Roland (Bulborum) uses the programme he mentions and I resize in a programme called ACDSee, reducing the pixel size to a maximum of 760 wide, which makes for a handy size for the Forum. You will see that many Forumists use a standard 640 x 480 size which is, I think, a size that many programmes will edit to for email sending etc.

But, hey! You came right in and got your first photo posted just fine, so we'll be looking for lots more pictures of all your garden plants!!

[bulborum]

Brian

what is a Drop oholic
in Dutch translated it is liquorice oholic
but what has it to do with snowdrops
or are you dreaming from a black snowdrop
as I saw somebody dreamt of a orange snowdrop

Roland

[Paddy Tobin]

Brian

what is a Drop oholic
in Dutch translated it is liquorice oholic
but what has it to do with snowdrops
or are you dreaming from a black snowdrop
as I saw somebody dreamt of a orange snowdrop

Roland

"Alcoholic" = a person addicted to alcohol
"Dropoholic" = a person addicted to snowDROPS

Paddy

[kentish_lass]

Thanks everyone for your welcome.  Regarding the yellow leaved, yellow flowered nivalis - it was not covered in leaves and had as much light as its green relatives around it.  I must admit it looked to me like a plant starved of light when I first saw it.  I have split the clump and planted in two places and I may take a couple more bulbs and plant in a shadier area as well.  It will be interesting to see what it does next year.

I also got some very interesting plicatus seedlings but I am not sure they are fitting for this topic of anomalies.

I have spent a few hours trying to resize photos in ACDsee (thanks for the help Maggi).  I will post a couple of Mrs Thompson now to see if I have sized them right.  When I did the automatic 480 x 640 it distorted the photos so I tried 780 pixels.  Hope they come out right.

I know it is not rare to find a 5 petalled and double flowered Mrs Thompson but this was my first year of them flowering so I was quite happy to see both anomalies.

Here goes......