mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments

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my yellow sandersii coming into flower i bought it last year so first time.
but its mostly green!
even more dissapointing my blonde inge which should have yellow iner markings is also green!
they look like a ordinary nivalis.
is this becuase i repot them each year?
is the disturbance cuasing this?
there all grown in pots.

rob

[mark smyth]

nivalis Blonde Inge is known for dropping the yellow mark when moved. nivalis Sandersii should be yellow no matter what. Did you see it in flower when you bought it?

[Brian Ellis]

As Mark says it's best to keep Blonde Inge without disturbing it if you can.  My new bulb of Blond Inge was greenish last year  :-\and so I hope this year she will show her true colours

[loes]

my Blonde Inge flowered last year for the first time, and after planting,and she was as it should be,yellow.
even my Lady Elphinstone was yellow the first year(I planted her in slightly acid soil).
I do not plan to repot every year,do you all repot every year?

[Brian Ellis]

No I don't repot every year, or plan to!  The important thing is to keep them well fed I think and just a new top dressing during the time they are below ground is all I intend to do for the ones in pots.  I have some in lattice pots in the garden and time overtook me so the soil had settled and I hadn't top dressed.  They look a bit odd growing a little below ground level but I didn't want to put anything more on once the leaves were clear of the sheath...better husbandry next year!

[snowdropman]

Rob, as Mark has said, g. nivalis sandersii group should be yellow no matter what, so it sounds as if what you were supplied may well have been ordinary nivalis.

There was some discussion on this Forum last year about the pitfalls of buying snowdrops on Ebay - there are some good, reliable, sellers on Ebay but there have also been some bad experiences reported - whether this was due to the ignorance of the Ebay seller, or something else, is difficult to say.

[mark smyth]

Rob why dont you make yourself some hyper tufa troughs to keep your collection permanantly planted?

[Maggi Young]

Stufff hypertufa troughs, Rob, why not make some fish-box troughs.... far superior!
See here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/feature/fishbox/troughs.html     !!

and here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/feature/back%20to%20troughs/backtroughs.html
and also here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/feature/chris/troughs.html

[mark smyth]

  LOL

Either way make a deep one so you can plant your bulbs deep

[mark smyth]

vigerous leads, I think, to a richer yellow. We/I expect a photo tomorrow no matter what the weather

[Maggi Young]

Rob, go to B&Q or one ofthose types of place and look for the little sample pots they have of Masonery paint. get two or three colours, choose according to you personal taste, or to match your local stone walls etc..  Click the  "fig. no" markings in Ian's article to see pix of the process... it is great fun and very effective. Gives plants a good hoem, nice and cosy and fit for long term living.

[Maggi Young]

We use the little pots of Sandtex masonry paint,, they cost about £1 each and three little pots of different colours will cover about two or three large polystyrene boxes.
If you can't lay hands on an electric paint stripper to seal the carved surface , then you can use a hairdryer, on the hot setting.. it takes a little longer than the paint stripper( which only takes seconds, or the whole thing melts!) Be sure and poke some drainage holes underneath... use a stick and poke from the outside of the box to the inside.. use a quick stabbing motion for a clean drainage hole.
Use a stippling motion for spreading the paint as well as applying the paint, you get a much more natural stoney look that wa... do not brush on the paint like painting a wall.
 Hope this helps!
 M

[Anthony Darby]

Snowdrops......in pots....... Only seedlings or those I haven't planted out yet. I'm thinking of redoing my snowdrop border and planting them in pond lily baskets plunged to keep track of them.

[mark smyth]

and I'm doing the opposite, Anthony! Mine are coming out to get a good free root run

[Anthony Darby]

and I'm doing the opposite, Anthony! Mine are coming out to get a good free root run

Aw shucks!