Galanthus in February 2013

[Brian Ellis]

Oh Jennie, did you lose Gemini ex PC last year or are you adding to the clump - or thinking of the knife   I loved your picture last year so much that I got one today

[kentish_lass]

Oh Jennie, did you lose Gemini ex PC last year or are you adding to the clump - or thinking of the knife   I loved your picture last year so much that I got one today

No Brian I never lost it - just like it so much I bought another one!  Certainly not confident enough to take the knife to that one yet.  Also bought a second Jonathan and would have bought another Edith if there had been one.  I think Gemini is gorgeous - glad you got one.  Was it Harvey's today then?

[arilnut]

Hi Melvyn.  I'll give $50 USD for  * G.elwesii yellow 2.  right now.

John B

[emma T]

The yellow does make it interesting , im in the i like it camp too

[Brian Ellis]

Phew Jennie, I'm so pleased you didn't lose it....yes:

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10057.msg265973#msg265973

[bulborum]

John  B.

I wouldn't wonder on ebay this one would bring a new record 
sure TM would bid on it 

Roland

[KentGardener]

I'm with you all the way there, Brian.  Cream or ivory or buttermilk would be excellent appellations for the slightly yellow snowdrops.  Although I'm not sure what you'd call the slightly orange ones that they have at Anglesey Abbey.

Apricot and vanilla smoothie?

[ian mcenery]

This was bought as a hybrid between koenianus and fosteri from the Wallis's. It is nice and very demure and I can see the former species but its relationship to fosteri other than it is perhaps a little greener seems only to be that it flowers at the same time as fosteri . My koenianus is yet to flower

[Michael J Campbell]

Galanthus  Titania

[kentish_lass]

Here are a few plainer looking ones - but as Beth Chatto once said "not every plant can be a star performer - you need background plants to help them shine" - or words to that effect.

1. The Apothecary
2. By Gate
3. byzantinus ex Warham - really like this one.
4. Overhead view of Richard Ayers
5. Lodestar

[Paddy Tobin]

Jennie,

I was working on a bed today and came on a clump of G. 'Richard Ayres' and was taken aback at how few flowers were on the plants - good healthy plants but only a very few flowers. About a foot away I lifted the low branches of an evergreen shrub and came on a collection of old hellebore seedpods, collected and nibbled by mice and there with them was a stack of snowdrop flowers. They weren't eaten so it looks like the mouse was simply decorating its nest - a mouse with taste.

Paddy

[snowdropcollector]

'Gemini ex PC', 'Timm's Hill Poe' and 'Wake up Call' are looking great Jennie, hope they grow well with you  .
Specially Gemini ex PC and Timm's Hill Poe, as snowdrops with large flowers are my favourite.
Last year I did become 'Pat Mason', a stunner also !! Almost flowering overhere.

[RichardW]

Jennie how does gracilis Cockscrew differ from Highdown?

[kentish_lass]

Paddy - are you sure it was mice and not fairies  . I don't know why Ireland makes me think of fairies.....maybe watched too much River Dance!  (No - not Michael Flatley  - there was a young girl dressed as a fairy and playing a flute)

On a serious note - has anyone ever had the flower buds of Hellebores snap off/eaten off?  When I trimmed back the leaves a few weeks ago there was a multitude of young buds on the ground around the plants?

Snowdrop collector ....lucky you.  Pat Mason remains on my wish list for another year.

Richard ....my Highdown from you are not flowering this year so I cannot compare the flowers but Corkscrew has much twistier foliage.  I really like all gracilis and was so happy when I spotted this one at Myddleton House.

[RichardW]

Jennie I had hundreds of hellebores in pots with flowers & buds nipped off a few years ago, can only assume it was mice as the plants were in a poly tunnel with the doors kept closed, still find them regularly, they also go after my chillis though not the habs, wimps 

Always liked Highdown because its early and very vigorous here, starting to get a few more now so will keep an eye out for corkscrew.