Test your skill........

[Martin Baxendale]

And it opens up so wide. Some of the poculiform nivalis, like Angelique, are quite reluctant to open up anything like that much.

[Anthony Darby]

What ever it is I'm first ( ) in the queue. What kind of whisky do you drink Ian?

[KentGardener]

Ian, that is beautiful - almost looks like a crocus flower to me.  Maybe with that find you can turn even more SRGC'ers over to the white side. 

regards

John

[Paul T]

At first glance it looks like Leucojum tingitanum, but they're multiple per scape.   I know, I  ;Dknow.... I've just commited treason, comparing the two genus like that. 

'Tis very nice though!!

[Maggi Young]

Sadly, the news of dear Peg Crosland is the worst: Peg passed peacefully away last evening, actually before I even made my post. Her nephew and SRGC friends had seen her and spoken with her earlier in the day and were sitting with her in the evening, though she was unconscious then.Shortly after they arrived home from the hospital they got the news that Peg had died. It was a long life and one where Peg found only friends over her 93 years... not many can say that! She is spared further suffering but we will miss her very much.

[ichristie]

Hi Maggie thanks for your call to let me know about our dear friend Peg, they just don't make them like that anymore.

Hi to all :the odd Galanthus was growing amongst other G. nivalis and strange as it may seem no other species were around but we did see several other clumps of good poculiform and some almost between, we intend to have another close look soon. I have seen a similar snowdrop named G. Sandhill Gate which looks like what I have posted and I will post another pic with this so maybe something strange going on in this colony. Anthony we will try and chip this if possible and as for Whisky well any malt that is wet?? cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Alan_b]

That's a really unique and lovely snowdrop.  This one seems to be the whiter of the two you showed earlier.

[mark smyth]

My Angeliques open very wide this year and are missing their pips

[KentGardener]

Now I see Mark's pic of Angelique - Ian's new snowdrop is sooooo different.

As I said before; beautiful!  And unique.

John

p.s.  Ian, please think of the SRGC'ers when you first distribute this snowdrop (I am sure I can find some wet malt to send your way  )

[Martin Baxendale]

My Angeliques open very wide this year and are missing their pips

Very nice, Mark. 'Angeliques' plural - I'm impressed! I ordered my first bulb this year. I read that even in the warmth of the RHS hall when it got its preliminary commendation, 'Angelique' was reluctant to open up wide. But I've also read that it's not a clone but a number of similar seedlings bulked up together as a grex, so there's likely to be at least some variation amongst them - maybe you're lucky and got one that opens well.

[Martin Baxendale]

Yes, John, I still think Ian's flower has very nice, rounded, incurved segments for a poculiform nivalis. I don't grow them myself, but what little I've seen of them (mostly in pics) they generally seem slimmer and less generous in the petal than Ian's find.

[Maggi Young]

Pay attention, chaps! You're supposed to be identifying all these snowdrops... what's keeping you?

[Martin Baxendale]

Pay attention, chaps! You're supposed to be identifying all these snowdrops... what's keeping you?

I've done my best, Maggi. So many you just can't see properly. But okay, I've taken another look, and I'll say (on top of my previous namings) Ketton, Ginn's Imperati, Brenda Troyle, Neil Fraser, Sophie North, Atkinsii, Sir Herbert Maxwell, and ordinary nivalis (I can't see all those, but at least some of them must be in there! 

[mark smyth]

Maggi I'll throw the question back at you. Do you have the answer?

[Maggi Young]

Oh, yes, indeedy!! Martin's got fourteen correct so far, and a few wrong. Given him the benefit of the doubt on his  Greatorex double- dionysius or Ophelia.... actually, it's a Desdemona....there is no Jaquenetta or Three Ships



come now, any offers?



Luit, my secret agent, and I are finding this hugely amusing, you know!