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Anthony Darby

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Galanthus April 2008
« on: April 07, 2008, 10:47:30 PM »
Here's 'Baxendale's Late' flowering now.
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Re: Galanthus April 2008
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2008, 01:46:57 PM »
A pleasant case of "doing exactly what it says on the tin"  ;) :D..... nice, isn't it?
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Re: Galanthus April 2008
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2008, 04:33:14 PM »
Today I received my order from Ivycroft and among other snowdrops I got 'Ding Dong' but what about its leafes? Is it virus-infected?  :o

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Re: Galanthus April 2008
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2008, 04:42:14 PM »
Today I received my order from Ivycroft and among other snowdrops I got 'Ding Dong' but what about its leafes? Is it virus-infected?  :o

Looks to me like it's dying back and going dormant early. I'm finding some of my snowdrops are dying back early after the mild winter (they seem to have completed their growth cycle faster than usual in the milder weather we've had in England this last winter - almost no frosts).
Martin Baxendale, Gloucestershire, UK.

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Re: Galanthus April 2008
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2008, 04:58:57 PM »
I do not mean the yellow colouring of the leafes. Of course they are dying down but these stripes confuse me a bit.

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Re: Galanthus April 2008
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2008, 05:41:02 PM »
I do not mean the yellow colouring of the leafes. Of course they are dying down but these stripes confuse me a bit.

What I mean is that once the leaves have started to die back, then it's not easy to tell if the striping is due to virus or whether it's just due to the normal dying back process. Some snowdrop leaves seem to die back in a uniform yellow colouring without stripes, while others do seem to develop some striping as they die back (especially the wider-leaved plicatus and nivalis x plicatus types). Whether that's a sign if virus or just how they die back is difficult to say.
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Re: Galanthus April 2008
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2008, 07:33:42 PM »
Thank you very much. Hope there is no virus...  :-\

 


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