Galanthus in February 2014

[Hans A.]

Ian , terrific clumps of some of the most beautiful snowdrops!
Fantastic find Mark!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Galanthus elwesii (monostictus or otherwise) shows great variations in size.  Just because you have a tall robust specimen does not mean that your small feeble one is not another elwesii var. monostictus.  If the leaves are supervolute (I cannot really tell from the photographs) then it has to be either elwesii or alpinus.

They seem to be applanate.

[Mavers]

Lovely photos Tim, have you grown them in the pots or dug the snowdrops from the garden & potted them?

Hi Ian, I bought a Rosemary Burnham last year as a dormant bulb & it is looking lovely in the garden. I understand she can be difficult & slow to multiply, can you offer any advice of what makes Rosemary happy & clump up like she does for you?

[ian mcenery]

Hi Ian, I bought a Rosemary Burnham last year as a dormant bulb & it is looking lovely in the garden. I understand she can be difficult & slow to multiply, can you offer any advice of what makes Rosemary happy & clump up like she does for you?

Thanks for the nice comments Hans, Mark ,and Anne


Mike
I bought this from Colin Mason who grows them for sale. He recommended to plant in an area where the soil could be kept dry by tree roots in summer so mine are in a reasonably well drained spot quite close to an acer griseum. I bought "half a bulb" about 3 years ago (I couldn't bring myself to pay the full price) and it has done well so far. These mutant drops can be a bit squiffy so .................................

[mark smyth]

Have you seen this Clovis lookalike woronowii on Ebay? If I had it I'd be twinscaling it
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-Rare-Galanthus-Woronowii-Mutant-Snowdrop/331120325867?_trksid=p2045573.c100034.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107092241%26meid%3D4578597841206495977%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D20140107092241%26rk%3D0%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D171230813521

[Gerard Oud]

Very nice that two-eyed plicatus Mark! Here are some pics of today between the wild plicatus. A double and a semidouble one and one with tiny stripes on it.

cheers,

[Gerard Oud]

S Arnott is quit early here this year. Far ahead the normal nivalis.

[Tim Ingram]

Hi Mike - the snowdrops were lifted from the garden a week or two ago especially for a display we did in the town. In pots they are a little like young things going to a 'prom' - very beautiful - but I really prefer them in the garden.

[Alan_b]

Does anyone know of an eyed plicatus?

I've certainly seen a 'funny-face' snowdrop in the grounds of Myddleton House and many of theirs are plicatus or hybrids.  But that would not be a named cultivar.

[emma T]

Yay after 2 weeks the phone lines have been fixed and I get back online . Hello everyone 

[Maggi Young]

Welcome back, Emma - was it the flooding that got into the telephone wires?

[Brian Ellis]

So that's why you were quiet Emma, hope it was just the phone lines that needed fixing.

[emma T]

Just all the damn wind and rain had broke something some where , but finally came out and fixed it today , yay .

Waters still very high , not really going anywhere fast .

[Maggi Young]

Waters still very high , not really going anywhere fast .

Nowhere for the water to go, is there ?  Pity it couldn't be  gathered up and sent to Robert in California, who is desperate for rain.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Maggi, Emma you have the sea around. But we only have small valleys.