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Author Topic: Galanthus April 2009  (Read 8847 times)

KentGardener

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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2009, 09:34:29 PM »
Are you sated yet John?

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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #31 on: April 12, 2009, 10:08:31 PM »
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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2009, 01:42:38 PM »
Thank you John!

My first garden Galanthus this year:

Galanthus caucasicus


Galanthus cabardensis


Unknown Galanthus at friend's garden



« Last Edit: April 18, 2009, 01:44:46 PM by Olga Bondareva »
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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #33 on: April 19, 2009, 12:08:57 AM »
Beautiful, Olga.  Do you grow any of the autumn species as well?
Cheers.

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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #34 on: April 21, 2009, 07:49:06 AM »
Thanks Paul!

I'd like to grow autumn species but there's nowhere can get them.  :-\

What species can be Galanthus at my 2 last images? G. alpinus?
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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #35 on: April 21, 2009, 11:50:22 AM »
Olga,

I'll try hand pollinating my reginae-olgae if you'd like.  Usually they set seed without help, but hand pollinating produces a bigger seed set.  I will not be able to guarantee that they aren't hybrids with G. peshmenii though (and my peshmenii has never set seed up until now), as that is in flower at the moment as well.  If the plants in the garden set seed I'll at least know that they are pure as they are the other side of the house from the peshmenii.  I could always send you a couple of bulbs, but then you'd have to turn them around from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere..... maybe someone else on the forums in the northern hemisphere can spare you a bulb at some point?  Anyway, let me know whether you want seed and I'll see what I can do if it successfully sets.
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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #36 on: April 22, 2009, 04:56:13 PM »
The potatoes you are eating may be part Galanthus nivalis!

http://agron.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/92/4/797

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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #37 on: April 30, 2009, 07:25:53 AM »
From the Scilla 2009 thread

Mine came from Holden Clough nursery (n.b. they still sell Galanthus woronowii as G. platyphyllus).

And supplied to RHS Wisley this year???  I bought something there that was supposed to be G. platyphyllus but was 'wrong' on several counts and I eventually returned it for a refund.  Advice from this forum (somewhere in the January thread) helped me reach the conclusion that what I had been sold was not the genuine article. 
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Re: Galanthus April 2009
« Reply #38 on: January 09, 2010, 04:26:03 PM »
I never noticed this series of photos until now - great selection. Thanks
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