Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Uli Lessnow on September 13, 2015, 02:13:28 PM
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Yesterday I found the first bud of Gal. peshmenii.
Very early this year!
Uli
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Oh that is really early. Also for German conditions.....
;)
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Dear Uli,
Nice to see it....thank you for sharing the start up of your snowdrop season.
Let the good times roll! Rick
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Copying a photo by Ru , from facebook, comparing the anthers of Galanthus platyphyllus and G. panjutinii
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My first snowdrop of the autumn season is flowering:
A whole white reginae-olgae called 'Blanc De Chine'
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Very nice, Ruben.
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Ingrid and Emma have been turning my head with some greens ( it's their fault for enthusing over them, nothing to do with me ::) ) but I really do love the pure whites and poculiforms.
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Yes Maggi, there is something special in the whites.....
But I love them all with green and without also......
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Ingrid and Emma have been turning my head with some greens ( it's their fault for enthusing over them, nothing to do with me ::) ) but I really do love the pure whites and poculiforms.
It is but one short step to the queue at 7am outside Myddelton!! :o :o :o
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LOL...so we will see Maggi in the footage covering the Myddelton queue in 2016! Very good. And if one must be in the queue at 7:00am, at what time do the gates open? ;D Rick
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LOL...so we will see Maggi in the footage covering the Myddelton queue in 2016! Very good. And if one must be in the queue at 7:00am, at what time do the gates open? ;D Rick
The gates open at 10.30am...first drop secured 10.30:12 seconds :) I can see Maggi in a pair of Nike Air, elbows flailing...
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Likens to a rock concert ticket queue from the last century. Thanks, Ingrid. I went out to see if my Galanthus reginae-olgae are showing up yet, and nothing to report quite yet. Rick
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The gates open at 10.30am...first drop secured 10.30:12 seconds :) I can see Maggi in a pair of Nike Air, elbows flailing...
That is SO NOT going to happen.
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That is SO NOT going to happen.
Yeh, Yeh...I remember when you said you didn't get the fuss over green drops ;D Now to quote Noddy Holder you are 'up'n rock and rollin with the rest' ;D
My acquisition team's response 'Bring it on Maggs'! ;D ;D ;D
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Develping an appreciation is not the same as standing about the middle of Englandshire at 7 am on a February morning, Ingrid. Not the same at all!!
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Ah, sweet slumber and dreams of Myddelton whites and greens.
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I hope this works ? .My first flower of the new season r-o Ruby Baker.
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Just lovely, Steve! Not a single nose up here yet.
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Terrific for r.o. 'Ruby Baker' to be first up this year.
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Jolly good Steve, I hope mine will not be too far behind.
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My first flower of the new season r-o Ruby Baker.
Terrific for r.o. 'Ruby Baker' to be first up this year.
Yes, with the loss of Ruby Baker earlier in 2015 it is rather poignant. Good to remember that lovely lady.
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Thanks Brian , Matt T and Rick .It's the best its looked for me ,The green tips are quite striking this year.
Kind words Maggi, I didn't pluck up the courage to talk to Ruby ,and now sadly that will never happen,but her plants will live on and hopefully bring pleasure to many more people.
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I see there is a timely article in the RHS magazine this month. I am hoping 'Eleni' will be in flower today as the sun is shining, 'Ruby Baker' is about a cm out of the ground (both grown in the garden).
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So you will have a start of the ringing bells of autumn, Brian. Here is only silence,means, I have to wait. :-\
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So you will have a start of the ringing bells of autumn, Brian. Here is only silence,means, I have to wait. :-\
Not too long I hope Hagen.
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All this discussion of r.o. Ruby Baker made me find time to go and look - three buds (just one last year) and the plant is still in pond basket in the cold frame - I am feeling very happy.
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Time of waiting is over :D
First buds are over the ground,
they will open white with small green tips ;)
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Nice to see your season is about to begin, Hagen. If things go as last year, I have another six weeks to wait.
Great fun to see these jewels beginning to appear. Rick
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Alpin-pit (next, third and largest) is not ready yet :(.
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Some notes from Ru on his mega-excavations!
" 4х14 and 2 meters in depth :) Alpin-pit :) Not cold in winter and not hot in summer."
" The minimum temperature for the last 10 years -32C (the last 100 years the absolute minimum (Winter 1939-1940) -39C) "
In winter there is often no snow at all. A temperature of -20 or -25 without snow, this is the norm for his garden. " All that is planted in pots and containers at such temperatures completely dies.I can not grow many species of snowdrops in the open field. If the greenhouse has a depth of about 2 meters, then I can grow plants without additional heating. On the street - 20, inside -2. Galanthus transcaucasicus bloom first. December. The rest are still asleep."
" In July, we have +37, +40 degrees. And two months without rain ::) "
" 80 tons of clay had been removed." yes, by hand!?
"This is the farthest edge of my garden. :)
The excavator can not drive there. >:( "
In a query about digging below the water table, Ru replied :
" Water is at a depth of 19-20 meters :) "
Pretty impressive, isn't it? 8)
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Now we have removed 180 tons of clay :)
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Hi Ru,
I was thinking I might part bury the next Greenhouse… but this is fantastic! In my current greenhouse, a free standing structure, the temperature soars and plummets. Tho’ not to the extremes you record.
Tim DH
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Now that's what you call a project - what enterprise Ru. :o
Wish I was 40 years younger. ::)
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Well done, Ru, a wonderful solution for your growing problems that will keep all those lovely snowdrops safe :)
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Ru,
Quite an impressive feat. It will give future archeologists something to ponder. Hope it meets and exceed your every expectation. Rick
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Now we have removed 180 tons of clay :)
:o That's enough for a clay mountain.
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they are waiting :)
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they are waiting :)
Wow !!! , Ru . ;)
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Ru, I am blown away at your effort. Much success.
Hats off! Rick
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Wonderful that they will have a new home Ru, well done.