Galanthus October 2012

[Tony Willis]

My first galanthus are now well in flower all

Galanthus peshmenii

First picture a general view
Second plants from Kastellorizo from a friend
Third plants from seed collected near Kemer

[daveyp1970]

Superb Tony mine aren't even above the soil here.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Fantastic Tony,

here all my bulbs are still sleeping under the ground.

[Brian Ellis]

What a treat for an October day Tony

[Anthony Darby]

Some lovely variation there.

[mark smyth]

wow those look great! No sign of peshmenii I bought this year. You may remember all of mine died in winter 2010

In February I bought 2 Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Ruby Baker' which I wasnt happy with. They were tiny, possibly twinscales, with only one leaf. I repotted them today and what a surprise I had. I was expecting nothing in the pot but I had two good sized bulbs and two tiny off sets. I should have photographed them. They have started to root so I dont want to know them out again,

[Hagen Engelmann]

Never heard about a G r-o RUBY BAKER

[mark smyth]

Hagen it is a green tipped reginae-olgae

[pehe]

Tony, nice to see your peshmenii doing so well!
No sign of mine yet. I have a single rgo flower in a pot under glass and the first one is just visible in the open garden.

Poul

[Maren]

On a less successful note, I splashed out on some snowdrops in January including:
‘Blewbury Tart’
‘Jonathan’
‘Mighty Atom’
‘Mrs Macnamara’
‘Rosemary Burnham’.
All were lovely healthy plants.

I followed instructions by the book, gritty compost at the right proportions, a little sharp sand bed for the bulbs to sit on, semi-shaded location, gentle care and lots of positive conversation.

On inspection yesterday the pots were empty. Is that normal?  

[mark smyth]

Definitely not normal Maren. Was there any brown 'flesh' left? All the ones I bought this year are so far still in the pots I them in - bulb/s at the bottom and whatever was to hand on top. Those that I have potted on properly are OK

[pontus]

excellent looking Peshmenii Tony. Is this sp also fragrant like reginae olgae?

my reginae olgae are not yet showing above ground either...

[Alan_b]

On inspection yesterday the pots were empty. Is that normal?  

I think it is perfectly normal that a snowdrop that perished over the summer leaves very little trace.  In my case I believe they mostly get eaten. 

[Maren]

Hmmm, I can't imagine they were eaten. My squirrels eat the dactylorhiza tubers and plant nuts in the pots, but you can see the disturbance. In the snowdrop pots, the compost was undisturbed, the sharp grit layer on top intact, no trace of any plant, bulb or root in the pots, as if there had never been anything.

[Lina Hesseling]

I did experience the same, Maren.
When I checked about 100 snowdrops, 3 or 4 were gone. Nothing in the basket that proved there had been bulbs in it. And another 4 or 5 had a larva inside. Disgusting. 

Lina.