October snowdrops

[johnw]

Paddy -  Welcome back, we missed you.

Hagen   - You realize some of us were trying to cut back on new snowdrops.  With your new ones the fires are re-ignited!

johnw

[Paddy Tobin]

Thank  you, John. It's wonderful to "see" you again.

[snowdropcollector]

Great you are back Paddy, looking forward to your comments and addings.

Lovely to see your snowdrops Hagen, as always ! You mentioned the third generation, you mean you have seeds growing from
three generations now ? That must have been lot of work. Do you make crossings by hand ?

[Hagen Engelmann]

SRGC- always one of the best addresses in internet.
Everybody of us has intensive times (my begins with galanthus again)and lonely times, so I was sure to meet Paddy here again, sooner or later.
He is back again -top  Paddy!!!
John, a fire in your heart you cannot delete. best, you do not try it. Love it. Galanthus are a part of my life. Hope we all will have a long life.
Richard, bees do most of the work , I'm only the organizer. Around 10 years I use seed from different sources and got a lot of seed from several classical locations.
 

[johnw]

John, a fire in your heart you cannot delete. best, you do not try it.

Hagen  - How true!  But the price of fuel these days to keep that fire raging....

john

[Maggi Young]

I think Gerard Oud may have given this link previously to his YouTube video about the mechanical grading of Galanthus, but in case he didn't  here it is again!

 

[Gerard Oud]

Thats the vintage way of grading bulbs! These days they are going through a machine where they are weightened and counted in on time! Cant afford such a machine just for snowdrops(about 200000 euro!)
Here i have the first peshmeni green tip eaten by snails, they left one petal with green on it. and a Tilebarn Jamie on its way.

[freddyvl]

Cambridge, the first named cultivar of r.-o., from Corfu and in culture through Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, hence the name. 'Nothing special' but nevertheless a early good doer.

[jens]

My first contribution to the Galanthus World with 2 snowdrops, that I grow under cover. I tried with Blanc de Chine in the garden, where it multiplied, but did not flower. I imagined that Blanc de Chine was pure White. The flower is bigger than my regular r.o.
The peshmenii is also satisfied with my regime after an slow start.

[Rick Goodenough]

Jens, your peshmenii Kastellorhiza form is beautiful.  First time I have seen this one. The amount of green on the inner is appealing along with the relatively rounded form of the outers...very nice to see.

[Alan_b]

Cambridge, the first named cultivar of r.-o., from Corfu and in culture through Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, hence the name. 'Nothing special' but nevertheless a early good doer.

But I asked a while ago and Cambridge Botanic Gardens had lost their stock of this snowdrop. 

[Maggi Young]

Couldn't resisit teasing those with the white fever with this : From IGPS  - a picture of cyclamen season at Anglesey Abbey  -

   

[Maggi Young]

A photo of Galanthus rachelae in the alpine house at Wisley - photo copyright of Harriet Rycroft, who has given kind permission to use it to show here ( https://twitter.com/HarrietRycroft )



The name is a synonym of Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. reginae-olgae. Interesting that Wisley is using it? 

[Alan_b]

a picture of cyclamen season at Anglesey Abbey  -

(Wandering dangerously off-topic but) it is absolutely magical there when the cyclamen first appear in great swathes; the flowers are so colourful yet appear straight out of bare earth with no leaves.  It looks more like a film set than something that could really happen in nature.

[johnstephen29]

Galanthus Reginae Olgae in flower, started with one builb a couple of years ago, has now started to bulk up nicely. I though it would go well with the cyclamen intaminatum plain & patterned leaf forms. Sorry about the netting, a consequence of the mild winter we had has been a lot of mice which have gone after my cyclamen as you might be able to see on the photo, stalks with no flowers or seed pods. I've had a word with our cat & she's got her act together, dead bodies turn up every day now.


Galanthus Reginae Olgae & Cyclamen Intaminatum by johnstephen29, on Flickr