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Anthony Darby

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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2009, 03:01:32 PM »
Well put Maggi. :)

Wolfgang, I like your Galanthus. Number 1 is a very unusual poculiform and number 2 is beautifully marked. 8)

Tony, that is exceptional! Are the two bulbs one clone? Is this the first time they have flowered?
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2009, 03:17:25 PM »
Wolfgang, welcome I also think your first one is lovely.

Anthony  I have just wandered down the garden in the sunshine to have another look at it and yes I think it is one clone,both the flowers on seperate bulbs are identical. It will have flowered before but I cannot say I noticed it.
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2009, 03:24:17 PM »
I will be watching this space next February to see if is the same. 8)
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2009, 03:25:40 PM »
Wolfgang - thank you for the photographs.  My favourite is the second picture with green on the outer petals - does it have a name?

Tony - I love the 2 petal one.  I have a stable 4 petal, and stable 6 petal.  A 2 petal one has eluded me so far.  Must admit to liking the 'full bodied' ones - but then always have time for the odd ones too.  :)

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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2009, 03:53:46 PM »
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Hagen the flower is a bit squinny for my liking.

Not at all Tony, quite refined in fact!  Yesterday we went out for lunch and to see snowdrops!  Unfortunately the weather was not good enough for lots of photos, and the paths were small so we were getting in everyones way ::) Nonetheless here are two from yesterday, first a very nice elwesii originating from Ray Cobb and called X-Ray much admired by everyone there, Pastures Green found by Richard Hobbs.  Then some from today in the garden/glasshouse Ailwyn, named after Lord Fairhaven, a kind gift from a fellow forumist, Acton Pigot No 3 and Ivy Cottage Greentips No 10.
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2009, 03:57:13 PM »
Brian, Michael has dropped the no. 10 in favour of 'Ivy Cottage Green Tip'
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2009, 04:01:34 PM »
Mark, he wrote the label and that is what it said so that is what I said!
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2009, 04:33:32 PM »
Brian, your pics are a pleasurable foretaste of coming times. You told us the dormant bulbseason of Avon and I bought ACTON PIGOT III. Here I see it the first time.
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2009, 04:55:45 PM »
Hello John,
this galanthus picture 2 is no name. I have several formes with green stripes.

many greetings,   wolfgang
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #24 on: February 04, 2009, 05:07:04 PM »
Just looking through my back catalogue of pictures, I found this amusing one of what an ant must think a snowdrop looks like.

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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2009, 05:10:16 PM »
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a pleasurable foretaste of coming times.

Hagen I hope it is not too long before you can enjoy all the snowdrops and that Acton Pigot no 3 does as well for you 8)
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2009, 05:12:08 PM »
Wolfgang there are some lovely snowdrops with green marked outers in Germany, we are all jealous :-\
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2009, 05:17:21 PM »
Alan, it's a shot most of us never take
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2009, 05:23:11 PM »
Brian

X-Ray certainly has a meaty flower. Very nice, the whole lot in fact
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Re: Galanthus February 2009
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2009, 05:29:43 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on February 04, 2009, 05:17:21 PM
Alan, it's a shot most of us never take

This made me smile Mark.   ;D 

When 'the driver', of my  previous years postings, attended snowdrop open days with me I always said that he must take lots of photographs.  When ever we got home I would look at his pictures - all the ones Ian took 'of people' were great and quite a few have appeared on the pages of SRGC - every single one he took of 'a snowdrop' looked exactly like Alan's Ant Picture!!....  hundreds of them!...   ;D ::) ;D

Bless him.

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