Galanthus February 2008

[johngennard]

I agree with Martin,Cardamine qunquifolia is an absolute thug and shoud not be planted anywhere near anything that you value.I have almost eradicated it in one spot after treating it with Roundup and I stress ''almost''.I have another patch which will be getting the same treatment and worse still it harly ever produces flowers for me.Nice foliage though.

[Martin Baxendale]

Yes, I meant to say that the although the flowers are nice, the proportion of flowers to foliage isn't great. I'm hoping that root-bound in a big pot or under rhodos in tubs, it might produce more flowers. When it can spread, it just keeps moving ever outwards.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Paddy, your pics are allright. When I saw your PEG SHARPLES, I remembered. And then I looked to my pictures, like Mark asked. Here are my plants.
PEG SHARPLES
 DAVID SHACKLETON

[mark smyth]

Not much difference Hagen but I will agree that they are variable from one year to the next. My group show between no upper mark to a good deep green linking the two marks

[Anthony Darby]

Going back to my pot with the four petalled plant. Here's a pic of the base, plus a single (no. 1) with a similar arrangement of leaves and another single (2) which must be elwesii? These leaves definitely overlap.

[Anthony Darby]

I know the pics are rubbish but is it possible to confirm whether both the three bulbs in my pot are elwesii or only one, the other two being gracilis.

[Martin Baxendale]

I know the pics are rubbish but is it possible to confirm whether both the three bulbs in my pot are elwesii or only one, the other two being gracilis.

I can't say for sure, Anthony. I've looked at your original pics and they all look like they could be convolute but (apart from the one very obviously convolute one) it's hard to see (convolution can be slight to pronounced). The flower with the small split sinus mark looks a bit like a gracilis-type mark. The flower with the two thicker marks looks more elwesii. The 4-petal flower with the big mark certainly looks like elwesii and not gracilis. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

[mark smyth]

Anthony how many camera do you own? I wondering how some of your photos are great and some are out of focus eg Angelique compared to the leaf photos

[Anthony Darby]

I was using the same (Olympus) compact but it was fairly dark when I took the leaf pics. I will try to take some better ones at the weekend.

[John Forrest]

For the 3rd year Lady Elphinstone has flowered green. Can anything be done or is it just weather conditionds to blame?

[KentGardener]

hi John

so far my one has always come up yellow (4 years now) - there is a lot of chalk in my ground as I am on a chalk hill in kent - could this have anything to do with it?

John

 

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

I don't think the chalk has any significant effect. Mine grow in slightly acidic soil, Ph of 6 - 6.5, and have yellow flowers each year - see recently posted photograph.

The general wisdom is that they need to settle to reliably flower yellow but then John's - John Forrest, that is - has his well settled in and they are still not flowering properly.

I wonder if you have the correct plant John? (J. Forrest) Has it ever flowered yellow for you?

Paddy

[art600]

Rob

I bought a lot of 3 on eBay this last week and they are all a very good apricot colour.  Very strong plants

[Hans J]

  hi all 

we have now March 

[art600]

Hans

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