Galanthus January 2007

[Anthony Darby]

That's 22 more than me!

[snowdropcollector]

I took a look at the garden today which species are flowering;

Mrs. Mc Namara, Richard Ayers, Sickle, Wendy's Gold, Handel, Caucasicus, Comet.


Fred's Giant is on his way, like a few others. I tried to make some pics, but I think I need a other camera for that.

Mark; may I ask you what kind of camera u use ? Your site looks GREAT !! My compliments, will be a lot of work.
Something that will be fast forgotten by a lot of people. Keep on doing the good work please.

[mark smyth]

Thanks Richard. I was going to add the yellow named snowdrops in Gallery V2 but I'm dead beat tonight

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

That G. 'Castlegar' sounds fabulously interesting. Mind it very carefully! I will be begging one from you in a few years time.

As with Chris, I am amazed at the differences in flowering time between gardens which really are not so distant from each other. This week, particularly yesterday and today,  has made a marked difference to plants here and some that were barely showing earlier in the week have now stretched considerably and should flower soon.

If you would like to post your 'in-flower' list, I'm sure it would make very welcome and interesting reading.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I hear today that it can be cause by a delayed 'birth' of the flower

Richard my camera is a Nikon Coolpix 5000. It's no longer made. My new camera/s will hopefully be a Canon 400D and a Canon Ixus 750 or 60. A friend has the Ixus 750 that takes excellent distance shots, that my camera is rubbish at, and macro to 3cm. He's a traveller, not literally, and the Ixus goes with him everywhere eg Himalayas and South Africa. Soon he'll travel the length and breadth of America north and south. Here are his photos http://www.genon.smugmug.com/gallery/1975088

[Paddy Tobin]

A good bright day brought these two into flower.

Galanthus 'Paradise Giant'
Galanthus 'Dionysious'
Paddy

[mark smyth]

Paddy could you edit the photos to show close ups?

[Paddy Tobin]

Here you are, Mark.

Galanthus 'Paradise Giant'
Galanthus 'Dionysius'

Paddy

[mark smyth]

thats better thanks

[Paddy Tobin]

I hadn't realised you were so short-sighted; never saw you wearing spectacles. I'll keep your infirmity in mind in future!

Paddy

[KentGardener]

thanks for the close-ups Paddy - I find the detailed pictures very useful as reference shots.

cheers

John

[KentGardener]

Hi Maggie

I have just realised that there may be a way to improve the search facility.

At the moment the person posting pictures must put the name of the plants being posted in the text of the post for the search to work.  However, because the pictures now show the file names it is very likely that a lot of the time the plant names will not be written in the text.  In these cases the search facility fails to find the relevant threads (eg, Paddy's Galanthus post about Dionysius or Lesley's Iris post about Star at Midnight - neither of which show up if searching for those plants).

Could you possibly ask Mr Admin if the attachment names can be added to the search criteria perhaps?
Sorry, it is not possible to do this.

with my best wishes

John

[Mick McLoughlin]

Galanthus elwesii recently purchased from local garden centre. Hope I haven't caught white fever from you Mark, never had much interest in snowdrops before coming on this forum. Thanks for all the great photos and info.

[KentGardener]

Hi Mick

now you can see why it is referred to as a fever.  I used to think my aunt was mad collecting snowdrops as 'they were all just green and white' to me.  15 years later I am begging any spares shes has and spending far too much of my pocket money! 

John

 

[mark smyth]

hello Mick. Your elwesii is, although nice, a well marked elwesii var. elwesii, two marks instead of one, and included those with all green inners. Single marked elwesii are var. monostictus.