Galanthus January 2011

[emma T]

Well done Cheryl.  Your first picture post - and lovely pictures too. 

Ailwyn is such a perfect double.  ex Emma Thick gets around doesn't she.    I've not noticed my Elfin yet - will have to go and have a look for it when the sun comes up.  What is the last photo of?

Can I ask where you are based Cheryl?

Cheryl lives 5 miles away from me and is my cousin    

[Brian Ellis]

4 - My first flower on JM6 (or JMDS-7B2-6 as it is also known  ) - I've been waiting a few years for this after a postal blunder where the parcel took almost 2 months to reach me.  A very sad looking mess was unwrapped but luckily there was a small solid bulb in the centre of the mess.  A couple of patient years of feeding the leaves and I've been rewarded with a beautiful little flower.  

It certainly is a beauty John, what is the inside mark like?  Your patience has it's own reward - in bundles.  I will show my ignorance and ask who is JM?

[Brian Ellis]

I have to laugh to myself at seeing all these Galanthus 'Trymmer'/'Trimmer' (depending on which year it was bought), mine is about an inch out of the ground so nowhere near flowering   A couple of photos, first a salutary lesson to myself, a snowdrop with a lost label.  I always used to put a spare label in the bottom of the pot out of reach of all the blackbirds so I would know what was what if they had fun with the labels.  I didn't with this one and now face trying to discover what it is by a long process of elimination - serves me right   Still it's a nice snowdrop
Second my first flowering of a gift from a Cottage Garden friend G.'Elmley Lovett' and lastly the first flowering of some twin-scaling (the Hatchet man strikes again Maggi) of 'Maidwell C' or should that be 'Enid Bromley'? The mark is not as clear as on the parent plant so may need to have a mature bulb to show the full effect.  The jury is still out on the naming and it seems to depend on whether this was acquired from Margaret Owen before she lost the original clump or after the seedling form was discovered.

[KentGardener]

I've not noticed my Elfin yet - will have to go and have a look for it when the sun comes up.

Just found my clump of 'Elfin' - or should I say SLUG FOOD!     Got there in the nick of time with the slug killer to hopefully see a few flowers to maturity this year! 

[Maggi Young]

David is doing a great job with these pix, Brian.

[lettuce begin]

Thankyou all for the warm welcome and encouragement re photos,
as emma says John I'm also in deepest Dorset.
Ailwyn had been in a frame and had been fully out for awhile.
I 'm sorry I dont Know who no 4 is John as it and many others were
rescued from a garden makeover, so if anyone can help I would be grateful.
I liked because of its wonderful big leaves it is also nicely marked inside.
I will try to post  pics later. More frozen knees!!!
Thankyou maggie for explaining about the 500kb, I'm a bit dense when it comes
to the technical side of computer thingys. cheryl

[johnw]

Getting confused here. Emma showed a shot of ex Emma Thick which I assume is a seedling of 'Emma Thick'. Lettuce begin showed us x Emma Thick which I assume is the hybrid 'Emma Thick'.   I am confused?   

Olga - As I grow many snowdrops in pots the order of flowering may well be different when they are plant outdoors. Then we might see an entirely different order of bloom depending on fast they come out of the deep dormancy caused by frozen ground.  It would be a good project to compare order in milder Europe and the colder parts of the world.

johnw

[johnw]

Brian - Your lost label looks a bit like Bushmills or am I daft?  But then the ovary is not long enough 

johnw  - -3c

[Brian Ellis]

Brian - Your lost label looks a bit like Bushmills or am I daft?  But then the ovary is not long enough 

johnw  - -3c

No I don't have Bushmills John, the only Bushmills I know comes in a bottle

[Brian Ellis]

Just before I went to a meeting, which unfortunately meant sitting on the bypass for an hour and forty minutes because of an accident, I took this photo to show you how far behind my G.'Trimmer' is...at least there will be one flower

[steve owen]

Two more today before it got too cold..

[Brian Ellis]

Just before I went to a meeting, which unfortunately meant sitting on the bypass for an hour and forty minutes because of an accident, I took this photo to show you how far behind my G.'Trimmer' is...at least there will be one flower

just noticed I hadn't put the photo on!

[Alan_b]

Getting confused here. Emma showed a shot of ex Emma Thick which I assume is a seedling of 'Emma Thick'. Lettuce begin showed us x Emma Thick which I assume is the hybrid 'Emma Thick'.   I am confused?   

Emma can probably explain this better, but my understanding is that the snowdrop she found does not have a name of its own (it was not deemed quite worthy by the powers that be in the snowdrop world) so is simply referred to as "ex Emma Thick".  Any other form of this name is simply an abbreviation.  Despite it's lack of name I would be happy to grow this snowdrop in my collection if I got the chance.   

[Paddy Tobin]

Cheryl,

Good to have you on the SRGC forum. Welcome!
Also, your "ex Emma Thick" is a very attractive snowdrop, very nicely marked and, although there  may be others with similar marks, it is a good one to have.

It is no wonder John Weagle is confused over "ex" or "x" Emma Thick - after all he has been on the Bushmills.

This has brought on an urge to have an Irish coffee, with Bushmills, of course.

Paddy

[johnw]

Just before I went to a meeting, which unfortunately meant sitting on the bypass for an hour and forty minutes because of an accident, I took this photo to show you how far behind my G.'Trimmer' is...at least there will be one flower

Brian - You must be expecting a sizeable clump in the future with a Trimmer label that big!

Nice lot of Acton Pigot there Steve.

johnw