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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Oakwood on March 11, 2014, 08:46:44 PM
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Ivano-Frankivsk area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Leucojum vernum
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
Crocus heuffelianus
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
Crocus heuffelianus
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
Crocus heuffelianus
Leucojum vernum
Primula acaulis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
Crocus heuffelianus
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
Crocus heuffelianus
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Kolomyia area, Prykarpattia, Ukraine
Galanthus nivalis
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Khust area, Transcarpathians, Ukraine
Crocus heuffelianus
Leucojum vernum
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Khust area - Narcissus angustifolius valley, Transcarpathians, Ukraine
Narcissus angustifolius, leaves
Crocus heuffelianus
Leucojum vernum
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fantastic finds! I really like the double Leucojum
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Khust area, Transcarpathians, Ukraine
Leucojum vernum
Helleborus purpurascens
Corydalis cava
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Hope, you liked them all my finds - enjoy!! ;D ;D
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OMG those yellow tips are fantastic
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Dima! We are nearly speechless to see such wonderful variety in all these flowers. So very exciting to be able to see this fabulous display in nature.
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Dima, how much time has it taken you to get all those photographs? I was struck by the similarity of many of your nivalis finds to things I have found myself in my local nivalis woods. But that has been by spending perhaps 10 hours per year over 10 years and you have more variety than I do. So I would feel more encouraged if you told us that was the work of days or even weeks than if you said those were things you found in an afternoon.
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Yes there certainly are a lot of variants Dima! Amazing how different they all are, did you cover a large area?
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Thank You for some good news from Ukraine, Dima! You do enjoy a wonderful flora and a fantastic range of variations of Galanthus nivalis!
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That was a thrilling tour Dimitri. I wonder how seed set is in the Galanthus stands and if voles are a problem eating Crocus bulbs in the wild there?
More tours please.
johnw
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Amazing!
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Dima, welcome home after a very successful trip! These nivalis variations are fantastic. Thanks for showing us.
Poul
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Wonderful to see plants in their natural habitat, thank you! :)
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Dear all - many thanks for your comments! I was there 4 days, and most of nivalis finds was made in one day, you're right Alan! ;D ;D
Brian - nivalises were searched for at 6 loci on 3 mounts in a same area of Kolomyia.
Mark - it isn't double leucojum, just curly one, but simpatico!!
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Thanks for the background information, Dima. Like everybody else, I'm tremendously impressed.
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Very nice pictures. I wonder if it's the time for me to start visiting the forests around.
:)
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Nature has something of the galanthophile in her! - beautiful pictures and places. My favourite - the Leucojum in the early morning frost. Wonderful to see plants from a different place - many thanks.
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to the homologous ranks in Galanthus - here below some similar flower type without inners, found both at nivalis in Carpathians and at plicatus in Crimea. I asked myself if there is already such flower type in culture in gardens?? Does such a cultivar already exist?
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to the homologous ranks in Galanthus - here below some similar flower type without inners, found both at nivalis in Carpathians and at plicatus in Crimea. I asked myself if there is already such flower type in culture in gardens?? Does such a cultivar already exist?
I have never seen any that look like that
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Does such a cultivar already exist?
I do not believe so in nivalis. But was there an elwesii found at the Kencott site like that? I half-remember a story that at first it as thought to be a practical joke played by one Galanthus expert on another but was in fact genuine. I think it was probably Matt Bishop telling the story - and he of all people would know the answer to your question.
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ok, thanks, guys!!
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Yep it was Matt , the one they found will be named " nobody's prank"
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Yep it was Matt , the one they found will be named " nobody's prank"
do you have a picture, Emma?? or a link on it?
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to the homologous ranks in Galanthus - here below some similar flower type without inners, found both at nivalis in Carpathians and at plicatus in Crimea. I asked myself if there is already such flower type in culture in gardens?? Does such a cultivar already exist?
These are Super Dima and never seen before some like these, almost no innerpetals Wow :o
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These are Super Dima and never seen before some like these, almost no innerpetals Wow :o
Conversely, Gerard. Emma says there is a similar Matt's elwesii "nobody's prank"..........
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Dima
Fantastic snowdrops and leucojum, but the Crocus are also special :) ;D :)
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do you have a picture, Emma?? or a link on it?
Matt Bishop is a forum member now so you could try sending him a PM. Thanks, Emma, for filling the holes in my recollection of what Matt said.
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That wonderful double leucojum Dimitri & the fabulous one with the large yellow tips :o.
Will you be able to get then into cultivation?
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I don't have the picture , Matt showed it at one of his talks . He's in America at the moment still I think .
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Dima, thank you for showing your fantastic finds :o :o :o. Some really specials are between them.
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A wonderful trip, Dima. Are those molehills in the Narcissus angustifolius valley?
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Matt Bishop is a forum member now so you could try sending him a PM. Thanks, Emma, for filling the holes in my recollection of what Matt said.
thanks, Alan! I would ask him.
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That wonderful double leucojum Dimitri & the fabulous one with the large yellow tips :o.
Will you be able to get then into cultivation?
I'll do my best, Mavers ))) at least I'll try them at me
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A wonderful trip, Dima. Are those molehills in the Narcissus angustifolius valley?
you're right, Anne! It is rather Bucovina Mole Rat - Spalax graecus - habitat))
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Oh the mole rat looks cute , prettier than a mole
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Oh the mole rat looks cute , prettier than a mole
Emma, but this guy is herbivore ((( instead of insectivorous mole....
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Oh that's a bad kind of mole ! I will stick then with our ugly black worm eating moles !
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I had to have a mole catcher when I first started developing my present garden.
They tunnel at quite a pace don't they.
I did have the briefest moment of empathy for the mole when I saw it squished in the mole clamp :-X but then I remembered my snowdrops & the damage it had caused >:(
So I soon felt very happy ;D
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When a mole got into my garden I used a free 'natural repellent'. This seemed to do the trick although my neighbour might have taken more punitive measures.
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I am very good at catching and killing moles in my mole traps . I'm waiting for the day when I get a pied or orange mole , then I will have it stuffed .
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I looked at other methods & apparently the mole traps that kill them are more humane than the ones I initially thought I'd use that trap them alive.
http://www.trapman.co.uk/mole-trap-catching-hints.htm (http://www.trapman.co.uk/mole-trap-catching-hints.htm)
'All our traps kill the mole and if used as advised are quick and humane, we did once make a live catch mole trap but found them to be more inhumane than kill type traps due to the fact that people would set them in the mole run and then either not check on the trap regularly sometimes for days or forget where the trap was placed, captured mole's suffered and died of dehydration or starvation............'
I did stroke it before the trapper took it away......... :-\
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Oh damn it Emma I didn't think of stuffing it 8)
I could have had it mounted above me fireplace. ;D
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Eww don't stroke the mole , damn things are riddled with fleas ! I'd probably have enough to make a coat if I'd have skinned the moles , not really the done thing now though .
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I have a dog that caught one lately. Normally she does catch mice, but this time a mole. She kept it with pride in her mouth when we continued walking!
Here she is:
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No rats or what so ever but 3 hedgehogs together found by Jacky! Normally you see just one but 3 is quit incommon.
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Hello Dima,
here is a G nivalis without inners. I called it DREISPORN and found it in 2007. I'm sure every species is able to create this genetic constellation.
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In the moment I also have a G elwesii without inners in trial.
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I was looking for an appropriate topic and found it. By the way, excellent pics Dima. What I noticed, these were not high mountain locations. What I want to share are my 30 years old memories from a nearby location in Poland , but high in the mountains. No photos though.
Being a student this was one of my many trips to remote and difficult-to-reach Bieszczady mountains. Look at the map- this is the south-eastern 'corner' of Poland. Very wild and depopulated since 1947. The soil there is an extreme clay, no conifers in the woods, low tree line, high mountain meadows with very high grass and generally extreamly lush vegetation. Altogether atypical for our part of the world. Max altitude 1350 m asl.
Being there in April when the snow was melting high in the mountains I noticed thousands of snowdrops growing through the surface of the mountain path and also around through the previous year grass. I mean over the tree line. I hope my memory is correct as recently looking through the net I couldn't confirm my past observations.
G. nivalis certainly is a lowland plant. What about high mountains populations? Are they common? Are they different? Are they represented in cultivation?
If not - it might be wise to enrich the genetic pool from atypical source.