Galanthus in February 2014

[johnralphcarpenter]

Naturalised Galanthus nivalis, many of them doubles, in Lorenden Woods, Kent yesterday.

[Tim Ingram]

Very nice Ralph - haven't gone to see those yet but have hopes of getting some good pictures and including them on my AGS Diary. You need Aaron Davis or Chris Brickell to answer your question about G. caucasicus; or what opinion would botanists from the region have?

[Alan_b]

... Now I read in this Forum that G. caucasicus is in fact G. elwessi var. monostictus, which I also have and which looks nothing like this. The latter is a tall robust snowdrop. This plant is flowering at 8cms high.

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.

[Maggi Young]

Galanthus caucasicus is an ambiguous name because it is used both as a synonym for Galanthus alpinus. var alpinus (which is found in the Caucasus and Transcaucasus) and also for Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus

Here are two links to photos from the forum
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5090.msg145887#msg145887    Dimitri Zubov
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3352.msg88343;topicseen#msg88343   Olga Bondareva

The PBS wiki has photos sent by
Dr. Shalva Sikharulidze, director of the Institute of Botany, Tbilisi
and Bakuriani Botanical Gardens in the Republic of Georgia of
Galanthus alpinus var. alpinus , Photos taken in the Republic of Georgia by David Kikodze. http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Galanthus

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you Thomas, my knowledge about the filled snowdrops is only small. But I want to learn.

[Tim Ingram]

Inspired by Anne's photos, these are several of the plants we displayed in Faversham yesterday - not especially unusual, but all good garden plants and distinctive.

[johnw]

Nicely done Tim, very classy and beautiful grown plants.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

Nicely done Tim, very classy and beautiful grown plants.

johnw

hear! hear! lovely presentation of the pots too, thanks for sharing them with us Tim.

[ian mcenery]

I have seedlings from Jim Archibalds last seedlist of G Caucasicus which he describes as being considered by Davis as a form of alpinus but Artjuschenko regards it as a distinct species you will find the full description on this link to the archive http://files.srgc.net/archibald/seedlists/JJA_seeds/JJA_seeds_2011_January.pdf

Here a couple from me as at last  things appear to becoming alive

G sandersii
G elw Rosemary Burnham
G gracilis Vic Horton

[mark smyth]

Fabulous Sandersii and Rosemary Burnham!

[mark smyth]

Does anyone know of an eyed plicatus? Not feint eyes but eyes as dark as the sinus mark. I have a self sown seedling from my garden. I saw it two years ago and removed it to a pot. It failed to flower last year but is back this year as two flowering sized bulbs with three flowers. The photo was taken just now in the house so its not the best. The flower isn't mature either. Two eyes in the name is just for my records

[Tim Ingram]

Thank you Maggi!

[Maggi Young]

Thank you Maggi!

My pleasure to help, Tim.
 Nice display - not one that would be possible  up here for a while yet.
I  do hope there will be some in fine order from growers in time for the Dunblane Early Bulb Day on the 15th February - there is usually a great range of snowdrops on the benches - and often for sale too.

[snowdropcollector]

Mark, I do not know about a two eyed Plicatus. Yours has clear markings, looks great !!

[annew]

Beautifully presented, Tim. And nice one, Mark! Ian, your outdoor clumps look great.