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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: apothecary on January 21, 2008, 12:48:17 PM

Title: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: apothecary on January 21, 2008, 12:48:17 PM: Well this one is still a bit miniaturised (another potted sample), but other than that it fits the description perfectly so I'm feeling more confident. I just thought I'd share anyway.
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: mark smyth on January 21, 2008, 12:56:35 PM: Kristina your photos are great but how can a bulb make food without it's leaves
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: KentGardener on January 21, 2008, 01:02:28 PM: Kristina

I am loving your dissected plant pictures. It would be great if one day there was a complete library of these pics for all the plants in your collection. Once I have enough quantities of each bulb I may try and document my plants in the same way.

Keep them coming.

John
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: apothecary on January 21, 2008, 01:07:38 PM: Quote from: mark smyth on January 21, 2008, 12:56:35 PM
Kristina your photos are great but how can a bulb make food without it's leaves

Well there are one or two left. ;)

I'm doing this for the greater good of the plants involved and they must make a small sacrifice to that end as well.

I'm attaching these pics to the individual plant records on our garden database so that future generations of gardeners here have a record of what the plant should look like assuming it should look like what's in the photos I've taken. If I don't, there's not a chance on earth that anyone will bother to pull out the monographs and re-identify them each year and we have no ready-trained galanthophiles on our staff. I'm hoping that from now on the snowdrops will be weeded through each spring as was recommended to me here and so I'm trying to pave the way for a brighter tomorrow...
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: apothecary on January 21, 2008, 01:11:37 PM: Quote from: KentGardener on January 21, 2008, 01:02:28 PM
Keep them coming.

I would be producing several more right now if I hadn't stupidly asked a colleague to lock the camera in her drawer over the weekend and then forgotten to get it back again before she went off for an epic meeting! :-[ :-\ :'( argh
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: Maggi Young on January 21, 2008, 01:14:04 PM: I think your documentation process is an excellent project, Kristina, very worth while for your own purposes at work, and to share with us here. Thanks!
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: apothecary on January 21, 2008, 04:26:58 PM: And here's a higher elevation image for 'Atkinsii'
Title: Re: G. 'Atkinsii'
Post by: apothecary on January 22, 2008, 03:56:23 PM: Origins wise, this is another plant received by us in 1997 from Primrose Warburg via John Grimshaw.