Galanthus mid February to March 2007

[ian mcenery]

Anne you are absolutely right that is what I meant about Blewberry tart. Perhaps when you get complete white blindness they are all lovely but this one seems well just nothing

[Lesley Cox]

In the advertising for the little Holden (Opel) Astra car that is sold here and in Australia, the girl, as she abandons her boyfriend and goes off with the guy in the Astra, yells out "Astra la Vista Baby!"

[Brian Ellis]

One for Alan b taken in Walsingham estate Norfolk...now you can see why they are called snowdrops!

[Maggi Young]

Unlike Blewberry Tart, poor thing, this wood IS a pretty sight, Brian!

[mark smyth]

see anything unusual?

[Brian Ellis]

Not this time, but hope to go again next week for a better look ;-)

[Anthony Darby]

Trees? . In the UK the car would be a Vauxhall Astra. I had one. I was a star! Did as many miles in the same length of time as Michael Moore did when he tried, and failed, to justify cheap petrol prices in his neck of the, possibly, trillium covered woods.

[mark smyth]

Today I found a green tipped well marked navalis in a garden centre. Time will tell how it behaves. Nothing compared to the orange shaded and all green pocs found in the UK and Europe this year

[KentGardener]

Hi Mark

nice find - I have purchased a couple of bits from garden centres myself this year but nothing too exciting.

Do you think we are likely to see pictures of the orange or all green snowdrops posted on the SRGC forum?  They sound very interesting.

cheers

John

[mark smyth]

If you go through this months pages you will see an orange gracilis. In the Dunblane thread you will see a good green tipped poc. Owner secret for the time being

[KentGardener]

thanks Mark - I must have missed them whilst getting into the holiday spirit.  I shall try the search facility now and see if it finds them.

cheers

John

[Alan_b]

This nivalis snowdrop was growing on a nearby bank.  I thought the small marking made it look quite interesting so I took a photograph.  Somehow the photograph now seems more striking than I thought the snowdrop was at the time.  Does anybody else think I should go back and collect it?  Is it garden-worthy?

[Maggi Young]

That is a pretty form, Alan. Ask permission of the landowner to see if you may collect some.

[Anthony Darby]

Several years ago I purchased some Galanthus kemulariae from PC. Artjuschenko places it in lagodechianus (see pic 2), but these were about a metre from a clump of the latter, which grows and flowers like a weed, and has never flowered until this year. Two years ago I moved the bulbs (both the three of them) and this year I have two flowers. Chris Brickell suggests that kemulariae is distinct. I'm with him (and it's his round). I also photographed two forms of woronowii, the first from the States, came as krasnovii; the second is a garden centre clump now struggling on in my lawn.

[Anthony Darby]

Here is Galanthus 'Merlin', G. plicatus 'Augustus' and G. xallenii.