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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Hagen Engelmann on January 01, 2016, 08:40:46 AM
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Wish you a Happy New Year
with a lot of fine flowers, pictures and correspondences.
Let us start with TRIMMER
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A happy New Year for all Galanthus-Lovers :D
and here comes 'Margaret Biddulph'
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'Three Ships', 3 bulbs planted in March 14, now 13 flowers and buds :D
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This New Year sunshine gets better by the hour...
A new acquisition this year 'Emerald Hughes' a New Zealand drop has flowered today! It is delightful and large, the AT has earned his Pasta con le Sarde with this beauty. ;D ;D ;D
I have included a couple of shots as it was preparing to flower. It has wonderful large leaves as a bonus.
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Well done the AT it's a lovely looking snowdrop. He obviously has his uses ;)
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Happy new year Hagen - and happy birthday too! :-*
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Good start of this year: Green Dragon showing today it self for the first time in my Garden.
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you have such a lot of fine snowdrops SL,
but you need a little bit more sunshine - for your plants and your pics too ... ;)
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Sorry attached the wrong picture Hagen. ;D
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Two snowdrops are flowering with me to start the new year off, the first is G. Alpinus, this is the first time I have seen it in flower, it's a lovely little drop. The second is a late flowering G. Peshmenii, though one of the flowers is just starting to go over. Happy new year to the other snowdrop lovers.
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Happy New Year!
Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus from a garden centre :)
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Delighted that today's sunshine has delivered one of my eagerly awaited new yellows! Anne Wright's Dryad Gold Sovereign opened today! I have included a few shots of it developing for reference.
Very much true to its name, it is pure gold with a stunning, refined and elegant upright habit.
It easily holds its own with my other yellows, Mother Goose, Elizabeth Harrison and Ecusson D'or.
It is a very rare drop and I know that Anne will be listing another very few in the next week or so. Keep your eyes peeled :o :o ;D
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Anne's babies are very beautiful and a bright ray of sunshine!
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G. lagodechianus
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A nice bright day yesterday so had a wander round the garden but a bit windy so flowers were bouncing around a bit.
1. Galanthus 'Lapwing'
2. Galanthus 'Florence Baker'
3. Galanthus 'Glenorma'
4. Galanthus 'Brian Mathew'
5. Galanthus 'David Bromley'
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A few more from yesterday.
1. Galanthus 'Whitallii Foxgrove form'
2. Galanthus 'One drop or two'
3. Galanthus 'One drop or two'
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Wow green tipped G. lagodechianus Ru :)
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Following Steve Thompson's excellent advice, this morning I diverted my AT's run via the garden centre to check for any unusual snowdrops in the pile (He was as you can imagine delighted ;D ;D ).
14 miles later he staggered down our drive clutching 6 pots he had bought for £9!
As you can see the variability of the result was well worth his effort. I now need to think about extending his range ;D
Chapli kababs thoroughly earned today ;D ;D
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years ago I bought hundreds of Ge in the wholesale trade: same results,
great differences and a few real fine types ...
and 5,6,7 autumn frowering bulbs
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Galanthus elwesii blooming in the open garden today on what is a balmy, 15 degree north Lancashire January afternoon.
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Galanthus rizehensis
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Very nice to see more greens, Ru.
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Happy New Year to everyone!
Alan Street asked me to post photos of 'Fly Fishing' on the forum as mine has pretty prominent green tips this year. I planted one in fall 2014 and it bloomed pure white last year. This year that plant has green tips as does a flowering offset. Two new FF planted this fall also have green tips as does John Lonsdale's greenhouse grown plant. Alan thinks FF has never done that in England. Has it? I guess we are just special over here. Lots more snowdrop photos to post later.
1. 'Fly Fishing' March 12, 2015 (it budded up in late 2014 but never opened until our incredibly cold weather came to an end)
2. & 3. 'Fly Fishing' December 22 and 27, 2015 respectively
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Mailing Address: P.O. Box 10, Ottsville, Pennsylvania 18942
info@lindenhillgardens.com
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Alan thinks FF has never done that in England. Has it? I guess we are just special over here.
Then I guess the Belgians are pretty special, too... ;) http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.60 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.60)
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Then I guess the Belgians are pretty special, too... ;) http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.60 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.60)
Tee Hee ! I guess so!
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Then I guess the Belgians are pretty special, too... ;) http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.60 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.60)
Of course Belgians are special :). Thanks for the link. Any green-tipped Fly Fishing sighted in the UK? Maybe it's weather/climate related. Checked the 15 day forecast for Brussels---boy do you get a lot of rainy days. Our winter lows are much lower and summer highs much higher. I don't think the climates are similar.
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Another good day here with good light so took the camera into the garden.
1. Galanthus 'Dryad Gold Sovereign'
2. Galanthus 'Fatty Arbuckle'
3. Galanthus 'Louise Ann Bromley
4. Galanthus 'Margaret Owen'
5. Galanthus 'Fieldgate Superb'
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A few more.
1. Galanthus 'Paradise Giant'
2. Galanthus 'Paradise Giant'
3. Galanthus 'Michael Holcroft'
4. Galanthus 'Caucasicus Green Tip ex Jenny Homewood
5. Something seems to have eaten the flower of this one.
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Happy New Year to everyone!
Alan Street asked me to post photos of 'Fly Fishing' on the forum as mine has pretty prominent green tips this year. I planted one in fall 2014 and it bloomed pure white last year. This year that plant has green tips as does a flowering offset. Two new FF planted this fall also have green tips as does John Lonsdale's greenhouse grown plant. Alan thinks FF has never done that in England. Has it? I guess we are just special over here. Lots more snowdrop photos to post later.
1. 'Fly Fishing' March 12, 2015 (it budded up in late 2014 but never opened until our incredibly cold weather came to an end)
2. & 3. 'Fly Fishing' December 22 and 27, 2015 respectively
None of mine have green tips..
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Another good day here with good light so took the camera into the garden.
1. Galanthus 'Dryad Gold Sovereign'
2. Galanthus 'Fatty Arbuckle'
3. Galanthus 'Louise Ann Bromley
4. Galanthus 'Margaret Owen'
5. Galanthus 'Fieldgate Superb'
The Sovereign looks in need of some decent sun, David!
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The Sovereign looks in need of some decent sun, David!
You can say that again Anne! We are all in need of some sunshine. Every time the rain stops we rush out to clear more mess or take some quick photos!
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You can say that again Anne! We are all in need of some sunshine. Every time the rain stops we rush out to clear more mess or take some quick photos!
Rain never stops long enough for us to attempt that! There was a blink of sun today but very wet and slushy ( last night we got some snow - for a change......)
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It's been that mild and wet for so long Maggi, this morning was cold and frosty. It came as a bit of a shock, even though it was forecasted.
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Yesterday afternoon we had 4 hours of sunshine! I cleared the rubbish off three of the beds with snowdrops in and felt SOOO much better. :D
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Yesterday afternoon we had 4 hours of sunshine! I cleared the rubbish off three of the beds with snowdrops in and felt SOOO much better. :D
Are you sure a neighbour didn't just have an arc light on, Anne? :o ::)
We had some sunshine then but underfoot is horrible - sodden and slushy - and now, icy. Thank goodness the galanthus - and other bulbs outside, are keeping their heads down. Sensible little souls.
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I wore a flat cap in case of radiation poisoning.
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I wore a flat cap in case of radiation poisoning.
Smart cookie!
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Of course Belgians are special :). Thanks for the link. Any green-tipped Fly Fishing sighted in the UK? Maybe it's weather/climate related. Checked the 15 day forecast for Brussels---boy do you get a lot of rainy days. Our winter lows are much lower and summer highs much higher. I don't think the climates are similar.
My Fly Fishing has fine green tips this year. But nothing like yours Carolyn!
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Hello All - due to non stop rain and now flu I have nothing to post right now! I worked so hard this year moving bulbs from my woodland area where I lost a few 'specials' to swift moth larvae. I cleaned them up, potted them into lattice pots and plunged them in sand in cold frames. The last time I looked they looked absolutely soaked where the sand has drawn up water and several had stag.....they were removed. I am dreading what I might find when/if the rain ever stops - but I am sure I am not the only one!
Ironically, not one lattice pot from the woodland area had a larvae in but I guess that was just luck.
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If the lattice pot is buried so the top is flush with the soil surface then a swift moth larva of the type I find might well be too fat to get through the holes in the pot. This may depend on your choice of lattice pot but I use ones with small holes. So if the larva is originally outside the lattice pot it would have to emerge above the soil to get in, making it vulnerable to predators. I have always hoped this might act as a deterrent.
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I quite agree Alan, the grubs would be too fat to get through the holes. The problem as I see it is that the female lays her eggs in flight so that should they fall within the surface of the lattice pot they would hatch, burrow down and feed themselves silly on our bulbs. I have never seen lattice pots as a cure all for this, rather they prevent moles etc having access and also mean that the whole contents of the basket can fairly reliably be known to contain the same variety of bulbs. Jenny (hope you're better soon) you don't say how cultivated your woodland area is, reading on Wiki and other sites it seems the larvae have a great fondness for docks which, if they are present, would be encouraging them! I think you deserve a medal for persevering year after year against all the problems you have had and hereby bestow on you the OMG (Order of Merit Galanthus) :D
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Jenny ... I think you deserve a medal for persevering year after year against all the problems you have had and hereby bestow on you the OMG (Order of Merit Galanthus) :D
Hear hear.
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Jennie -so sorry to hear you are poorly - get well soon - and hope your 'drops are in better fettle than you fear. xx
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Found a four petal.G.atkinsii and a nice leaf Cyclamen alpinum at Wisley yesterday.
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Poor "kentish lass" - Jennie not only has 'flu - she's poorly on her birthday - so unfair! Sending her special get well soon and happier days, wishes! Many HAPPY Returns of the Day!
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More unusual green tips have appeared, this time on 'Daphne's Scissors'.
1. January 2015
2. March 2015
3. March 2014
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I don't grow 'Daphne's Scissors' myself but according to the Judy's Snowdrops web site some green tipping on the outers is normal http://www.judyssnowdrops.co.uk/Plant_Profiles/Elwesii/daphnes_scissors/daphnes_scissors.htm (http://www.judyssnowdrops.co.uk/Plant_Profiles/Elwesii/daphnes_scissors/daphnes_scissors.htm) . I agree the green looks much more pronounced in your later pictures than in Janet's picture. Some snowdrops need to be 'settled' to produce their best green tips.
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Some lovely snowdrops flowering last weekend
David Baker
Seedling Elwesii - it has small flowers like a Nivalis
Gemini ex PC
Greenfinch
Gunter Waldorf
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A few more
Nice and Early
Niv seedling long outers
Niv seedling long outers
Niv seedling long outers
Pl Byzantinus ex Warham
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Lovely 'drops - and you have some sunshine to enjoy them! Lucky!
How nice to see the snowdrop named for the late Günter Waldorf
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Nice photo's! But...its Günter Waldorf, without the h :-*
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Still a bit early for snowdrops here at 300m up in N Wales. 'Atkinsii' in bud and a few rather sulky Cyclamen coum out, plus one very early Narcissus cyclamineus on the way. Really enjoying everyone else's snowdrop displays, keep them coming as I'm looking forward to spring!
Tristan
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A Galanthus elwesii which I am naming 'Pisces' because of it's fish-like inner marking (and better than Dean's Decapitated Fish!) It blooms from Christmas onwards and is at it's peak now - good value for the first weeks of January. These are photo's from last year but are representative of how it looks today. It has been passed on to several friends. :)
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Nice one , Dean - and long lasting in flower- which is even better! Plus 'Pisces ' must be a winner in this weather - it's STILL raining here!
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A nicely shaped flower and good colour to an attractively waisted inner marking. I like it.
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G. elwesii 'Dean's Decapitated Fish' would have been fun! ;D
It looks good - even in the rain.
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Lots of snowdrops out now; we're off to Canada tomorrow for two and a half weeks so will probably miss some. Here's G. elwesii 'Comet' showing green tips. Is this common?
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Have a good trip, Ralph - hope there are still flowers out for you to enjoy later.
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Green marks on the tips are fairly common, Ralph, but vary a lot - often only some fine lines, sometimes green tips.
Hope you have a great time in Canada and your drops will wait for you.
G. 'Sutton Courtenay' amazes me: One bulb planted in the summer of 2014 and today there are 15 flowers. The bulb (from Wol and Sue Staines) must have produced multiple divisions.
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Thank you Loes, well noticed !
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Plicatus Sabine, a new snowdrop from Woodchippings. The first flowers normally appear around Christmas. I like the inner markings a lot !
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Plicatus Sabine, a new snowdrop from Woodchippings. The first flowers normally appear around Christmas. I like the inner markings a lot !
Pleasing overall shape I think. Looks a flower of some substance.
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Is there a difference between 'Warham' and 'Washfield Warham'? If so, does anyone have conclusive photos of the two?
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It seems there is ... from pages 145 -146 in Matt B's book ...... bad photos used for information.....
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description of 'Warham' ( no photo)
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'Washfield Warham' pic
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'Washfield Warham' description
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This is what I have as 'Warham'
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Dean there are many fish shaped elwesii among dry and garden centre potted elwesii
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... But maybe not so many that flower from Xmas onwards (if that happens every year).
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Looks like mine! Thanks, Maggi and Mark.
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Dean there are many fish shaped elwesii among dry and garden centre potted elwesii
Maybe Mark but this one does reliably flower around Xmas into January each year which in my humble opinion makes it a worthy garden plant and it is a good doer so worthy of a name even if it isn't the latest must have drop
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I agree, Dean - timing and robust character are key ingredients for a quality 'drop and so why not name ?
After all, why should only "those and such as those" be allowed to name?
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wrong picture-deleted it
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wrong picture-deleted it
Thank goodness for that - I was thinking it hadn't got the right leaves and I was losing the place!
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G. plicatus 'Castle Select' - a kind gift from Ian Christie. Thank you, Ian!
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SCHORBUSER LAMPION is turning from green to gold. It is starting to glow.Please note the very globular shape of the outers ...
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Looks great, Hagen.
Is there some G. gracilis in its parentage?
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I hope so Anne, but all things of the habitus look different.
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Beautiful shape, Hagen.
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Looking at Hagen's 'drop brings on a bout of Galanthomania, the fervour of which I thought I'd never experience. What is not to like about that flower? I really sets my pulse racing! The glowing colour is one thing, but the overall bearing of the flower, the shape and texture of the outers, the wee apical mark that verges on being pips... too much!
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Matt, yes, Hagen is setting the bar quite high...great fun to see his creations. We have had a cold snap here but even though it was a cold gray day, G. e. 'Yvonne Hay' was trying to open to put on a show, Another day perhaps. And then there is this G. gracilis primed and ready for a touch of sunshine. Great fun in mid winter. Rick
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Yvonne Hay is a good-looker, Rick! Lovely flower-shape.
G. gracilis: so sweet...
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Thank you Anne, just glad they are not yet buried in several feet of snow! Rick
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Oh Matt T, do you mean, I'm a carrier (infectious person) of the "white fever"?
Sorry so much :o
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Oh Matt T, do you mean, I'm a carrier (infectious person) of the "white fever"?
Sorry so much :o
Definitely not something to apologise for Hagen. SCHORBUSER LAMPION is beautiful, no wonder Matt is infected. Can you give us the meaning of the name please?
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Absolutely not - it's an infection that has been gestating for a while and I can only blame myself for recklessly exposing myself to the pathogen!
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Brian,
The good globular flowershape and later the long claws seems to look like a lampion/lantern. And inside there is a little but warm ( candle) light.
look here too:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampion
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Flowering with me for the first time is G. Elwesii var monostictus (I hope), beautiful little galanthus.
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Garden centre finds. Maybe not very exciting but they are different. The last one is from dry bulbs bought in September
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Tried the pale one again in sunshine this afternoon
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If it retains the lime colour it is nice and distinct.
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I agree with Anne ...
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We'll know in 12 months
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I had this last year but it isn't up
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I had this last year but it isn't up
Hope it's just late - nice flower
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Me too. Nice shape but nothing to get too excited about
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This mornings patrol, before the rain, revealed the beautiful Seraph, delightfully white without inner markings.
Believed named due to its resemblance to a 'six-winged heavenly body', I also think a contributory factor may be the apparent crown of gold visible through the top of the outers.
At one stage thought to be extinct, thankfully not, as it is striking and stunning.
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I also think a contributory factor may be the apparent crown of gold visible through the top of the outers.
A very attractive feature Ingrid :D
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The old theme of the i-pocs!
LADY PUTMAN,
VALENTINE'S DAY or
PUMPOT?
This is the first, in floering time but also in enumeration ...
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Could this be the best yellow snowdrop? It's the best I have seen
'Dryad Gold Bullion'
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Galanthus gracilis from Greece Mt Pangeo
Galanthus sp (graecus) Greece Mt vermion
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It's not 'Cutie-Pie', Hagen, as she is not in flower yet this year.
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Alan B ..I like your 'Cutie-Pie' it looks to have a touch longer outer petals than the other named i-pocs.
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Terrific gracilis Tony just showed. And that yellow, Mark, it doesn't get much better than that. And what ever you are showing Alan is a cutie pie to my eye. About all I have here today is a gale force wind and snow blown and frozen G. e. 'Zwanenburg', hoping for some sun and a tough G. e. 'Yvonne Hay' enduring the same.
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Well a few from the garden today
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And more
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Wonderful display Chas and beautifully grown.
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Well a few from the garden today
More than a few, I'd say! Lots of fine 'drops there, Chas.
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The old theme of the i-pocs!
LADY PUTMAN,
VALENTINE'S DAY or
PUMPOT?
This is the first, in floering time but also in enumeration ...
Hagen
Are you perchance able to post pics of Lady Putman/Valentines Day/Pumpot side by side?
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Sorry Steve,
LADY PUTMAN is blooming now,
PUMPOT will bloom in 2 weeks I think
and VALENTINE'S DAY isn't in my hand.
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Hagen, so here is Valentines Day. Sorry pic not as good quality as yours.
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fine flowers Steve, I like these pure not poor inverse poculiform types.
I'm sure this spring will bring me VD.
In your hands, it looks very healthy! Does it increases (very) well?
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A small flowering ( Nivalis size) Elwesii I named; Snowdropfevers Tiny Grouchy
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Courtesy of David MacLennan, here's his good version of Emma Thick holding Galanthus 'Emma Thick'.
Edit: Oops, I thought my first attempt to post on the Myddleton House topic failed but now I see I've accidentally posted elsewhere and doubled up. Please delete this surplus.
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"She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lilly bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot".
Even better than Camelot, a stunning addition to this mornings walk in the sunshine, one of my Morgana opened fully!
I have included photos of the transition as the flower opens, to demonstrate just how green it is. Even at the bud stage it is clear that this is a very green snowdrop. It is another of the drops that it is difficult to do justice with in a photo. These shots have been taken in a variety of light conditions and the green remains incredible.
Interestingly, the one shown is planted in one of my snowdrops beds and left to the elements. The other, which is about 7-10 days behind, is planted in my bunker, where it receives a more 'protected' environment.
A beautiful addition to the green stable, thanks Andy Byfield!
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Courtesy of David MacLennan, here's his good version of Emma Thick holding Galanthus 'Emma Thick'.
Edit: Oops, I thought my first attempt to post on the Myddleton House topic failed but now I see I've accidentally posted elsewhere and doubled up. Please delete this surplus.
Heck no - leaving it to give Emma the glory she deserves!!
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I like the foliage on 'Morgana' too.
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Interestingly, the one shown is planted in one of my snowdrops beds and left to the elements. The other, which is about 7-10 days behind, is planted in my bunker, where it receives a more 'protected' environment.
A beautiful addition to the green stable, thanks Andy Byfield!
It certainly is Ingrid but what a conundrum, you would have thought it would be more forward in the bunker, as I always say, they have a mind of their own these fickle beauties.
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Hear, hear, Brian...
Beautiful drop, Ingrid - I can well understand why you are thrilled.
Rather less spectacular:
G. 'Hans Guck-in-die-Luft' and
G. elwesii 'Godfrey Owen'
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What a great photo of Godfrey Owen! And Morgana is a real beauty..
More down to earth, Wendy's Gold still gives a great display en masse.
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An unnamed Dryad Gold clone thinks it might take after Magnet. And a new 'ipoc' seedling.
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What a beautiful pot of 'Wendy's Gold'! And congratulations on the new clone and that sweet 'South Hayes'-lookalike seedling.
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Introducing Galanthus 'Trym Ingram'.
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In 2015 the CGS Snowdrop Group toured gardens in Kent. One of these, 'Copton Ash', was the garden and nursery of regular forum contributor Tim Ingram. I visited that day along with John 'KentGardener' Finch, who I had dragged out of snowdrop retirement for the day. There was one unnamed snowdrop that we both particularly admired that was just labelled as a Trym seedling. Tim got in early with Trym and it has produced some good seedlings for him, including one he has named 'Copton Trym'. But I though this one was even better with its very large mark and well-shaped outer petals
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I saw it again this weekend when I got one from Tim in a swap and I still like it very much indeed. So I got to thinking about what name it should have. Trym seedlings have often been given names that allude to their parent and Tim had already done this with his 'Copton Trym'. I like clever, amusing names like 'Alan's Treat' for Alan Street so it seemed almost obvious that this one should be called 'Trym Ingram'. I proposed this name to Tim and although he was initially reluctant I think I have won him round (with the support of Tim's wife). I really hope others agree this snowdrop is name-worthy and that my proposed name will stick.
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Well I have to thank you Alan! This is another picture taken last year. I have to thank Val Bourne more than anyone because it was she that first gave me 'Trym' - the relationship between snowdrops and snowflakes really becomes apparent!
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It certainly looks very smart in a clump
Trym, sorry Tim :)
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An unnamed Dryad Gold clone thinks it might take after Magnet. And a new 'ipoc' seedling.
Both look great Anne but how does the i-poc look very different from South Hayes?
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I think Trym Ingram is maybe the best of the Trym seedlings and lookalikes
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Pleased that I went out yesterday, even though it was breezy, as today is far too windy for photography. This is a few of those I saw:
1. Galanthus 'Green Tear'
2. Galanthus 'Fee Clochette'
3. Galanthus 'Castle Green Dragon'
4. Galanthus 'Whitallii Foxgrove form'
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A few more:
1. An overhead view of Galanthus 'Godfrey Owen' showing its six tepals
2. Another view of Galanthus 'Godfrey Owen'
3. Galanthus 'Trym Baby'
4. Galanthus 'Sprite'
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And finally:
1. Galanthus 'Ray Cobb'
2. Galanthus 'Turncoat'
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Bought during the 2008 snowdrop season 'Greenfinch' has struggled most years for me. Sometimes one tiny leaf, sometimes with a tiny flower and sometimes no leaves or flower.
How did it manage to become two flowering sized bulbs this year. Where did the second bulb come from!? How or where did each bulb get the energy to make a single leaf daughter bulb?
Baffling!
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I wouldn't mind trying snowdrops in pots Anne just ot have some protected from the weather.
Do you have any pointers to help make it as successful as your potful of Wendy's Gold?
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Bought during the 2008 snowdrop season 'Greenfinch' has struggled most years for me. Sometimes one tiny leaf, sometimes with a tiny flower and sometimes no leaves or flower.
How did it manage to become two flowering sized bulbs this year. Where did the second bulb come from!? How or where did each bulb get the energy to make a single leaf daughter bulb?
Baffling!
I've had much the same experience Mark and am thrilled to have two flowers at last ;D. It must be like all the Czech green tipped snowdrops, late to flower and slow to increase despite originating in Norfolk.
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Well a few from the garden today
Lovely Chas and the nicest thing about the photos is that they are of good, well grown clumps.
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Definitely
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Sitting here thinking about my project to remove all the alpines and replant their 14 sunny troughs with Iris reticulata, Galanthus and other small bulbs.
I think I could fit in 63 Galanthus cultivars in clumps of around 6. I've decided I will only use green tipped/ipocs, yellows and doubles. Some I only have singles.
I've got 18 green tipped/ipocs, 11 doubles and 9 yellows. I need to concentrate on getting doubles and yellows while in Norfolk.
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'Trym Ingram' looks wonderful. Congratulations Tim. :)
And finally:1. Galanthus 'Ray Cobb'
I have three yellows: 'Ray Cobb', Wendy's Gold' and 'Bill Clark' which have now third spring coming, and from these three 'Ray Cobb' has increased most, while the other two are about the same bulbs as planted or made a small side bulbs at the most. They are now still under snow, but it will be interesting to see how they are this spring. Am I right that RC originated from more north than the other two? Perhaps that is why it seems to do also better here.
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I wouldn't mind trying snowdrops in pots Anne just ot have some protected from the weather.
Do you have any pointers to help make it as successful as your potful of Wendy's Gold?
Mike you're back!!! :) :) :)
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I wouldn't mind trying snowdrops in pots Anne just ot have some protected from the weather.
Its great having snowdrops and other bulbs under cover
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That looks gorgeous, Mark!
(But I hope you are not going to eat any of that ;) - with the fort lying at the ready like that.)
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Both look great Anne but how does the i-poc look very different from South Hayes?
It doesn't!
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I wouldn't mind trying snowdrops in pots Anne just ot have some protected from the weather.
Do you have any pointers to help make it as successful as your potful of Wendy's Gold?
Repot regularly - contrary to popular opinion, snowdrops can be perfectly happy in pots, if looked after. Nice for the observer too!
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That looks gorgeous, Mark!
(But I hope you are not going to eat any of that ;) - with the fort lying at the ready like that.)
The fork is for removing weeds from the sand
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I am relieved :)
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Introducing Galanthus 'Trym Ingram'.
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I really hope others agree this snowdrop is name-worthy and that my proposed name will stick.
I'd certainly say Trym Ingram was both name-worthy and well named Alan!
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A few snowdrops that are about to flower at the moment in the beds.
Aunt Agnes
Evenley Double
Green Bottle
Shrek
Trymlet
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A few more.....from Ruslan
PP-R-14-0486
PP-R-14-8431
PP-S-14-0171
PP-S-14-0619
PP-S-14-8843
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I love them all... But 'Shrek' and PP-S-14-8843 are very special, I feel. Very beautiful.
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Hi everybody,
Here are those flowers home.
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The simple 'Galanthus nivalis' with these bees foraging frantically ...
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Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Trumps'
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Cfred72, 'Trumps' is a form of Galanthus plicatus or a hybrid owing much to plicatus. And unless it's a trick of the light, I don't think your first photograph shows nivalis either. But all snowdrops are good, it doesn't matter which species.
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A few snowdrops that are about to flower at the moment in the beds.
Aunt Agnes
Evenley Double
Green Bottle
Shrek
Trymlet
Get busy with your paintbrush! It's easy to make your own hybrids, and you don't need to wait for the bees! Here are some of the seedlings flowering now:
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Before anyone panics, they will NOT all be named, only a select few.
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Trouble is that there are so many 'Trym' seedlings now it's getting harder to find one that is distinct from the ones we have already. The motorway version of South Hayes with the broad green stripe (=wide road) down the middle was the one that stood out the most for me. Maybe you have two of these in different shades of green? It's the top right one in both sets of pictures.
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The free monthly e-magazine, International Rock Gardener IRG 73 for January 2016 is online now :
A new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue' is described by Alan Briggs, with photos by Paddy Tobin and a painting by Irish artist Shevaun Doherty -
a new species of Crocus is described by Janis Ruksans : Crocus duncanii- named to honour Brian Duncan
and last but not least, some good, readily available garden plants are listed to coincide with David Nicholson's list of Specialist Plant Nurseries (http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf)
Read the January 2016 IRG here : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf)
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Thanks Maggi - lots of interest in the latest edition!
As a fan of G. plicatus, I would like to get hold of Longraigue at some point too - nice inners, and early unlike the majority of mine
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Get busy with your paintbrush! It's easy to make your own hybrids, and you don't need to wait for the bees! Here are some of the seedlings flowering now:
Lovely all of them Ann --I seem to remember a video somewhere in which you show the ins and outs of hybridizing --sorry I can't remember now whether it was Narcissus or Galanthus . Is that still able to be viewed please ?.
Cheers Dave.
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Cfred72, 'Trumps' is a form of Galanthus plicatus or a hybrid owing much to plicatus. And unless it's a trick of the light, I don't think your first photograph shows nivalis either. But all snowdrops are good, it doesn't matter which species.
Thank you for correcting me, Allan, I'm really new at this.
So Trumps is a G. plicatus. I correct my list ...
Can you tell me to others I have?
I own :
G. 'Big Boy'
G Bill Clark '
G. Flore Pleno
G. woronowii
G reginea Olga 'Tilbarne Jame'
For the first image, are plants that I had brought the wood near my home a few years ago. It's true that looking closer, there are many differences in the tufts reconstituted every time a bulb planted out in isolation.
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A new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue' is described by Alan Briggs, with photos by Paddy Tobin and a painting by Irish artist Shevaun Doherty
...and very delightful it is both the plant and the painting :)
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Lovely all of them Ann --I seem to remember a video somewhere in which you show the ins and outs of hybridizing --sorry I can't remember now whether it was Narcissus or Galanthus . Is that still able to be viewed please ?.
Cheers Dave.
Whole thread here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10158.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10158.0) "How to pollinate snowdrops"
with links to the video on Anne's website and direct link to the video on YouTube.
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Can you tell me to others I have?
I own :
G. 'Big Boy'
G Bill Clark '
G. Flore Pleno
G. woronowii
G reginea Olga 'Tilbarne Jame'
woronowii and reginae olgae are species (hence their names are not capitalised). Flore Pleno is bound to be Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno' although that's really more of a descriptive term than a cultivar name. 'Bill Clark' belongs to the species plicatus and originated at Wandlebury Ring, just a few miles from where I live. I don't grow or really know 'Big Boy' so I cannot tell you about him.
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Hello many thanks everyone for all the super pictures at last I have some which might be interesting the bulbs have been under cover so a few in flower the first is a hybrid nivalis x plicatus really Tall then some recent G plicatus Lady Alice Little Emma and a new seedling from Green Dragon has a longer ovary cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Can you tell me to others I have?
I own :
G. 'Big Boy'
This one is Galanthus elwesii var elwesii.
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Hello many thanks everyone for all the super pictures at last I have some which might be interesting the bulbs have been under cover so a few in flower the first is a hybrid nivalis x plicatus really Tall then some recent G plicatus Lady Alice Little Emma and a new seedling from Green Dragon has a longer ovary cheers Ian the Christie kind
"Under cover" is certainly the place to be the weather there has been lately - for Galanthus and gardeners!
These 'drops look so pretty, clean and un-battered by the storms - lovely Ian.
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Thanks Maggi a real challenge to be out today gales were fierce intermingled with snow dread what we might find in the morning, a few more snowdrop pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Eyebright early............................very nice Ian
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Whole thread here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10158.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10158.0) "How to pollinate snowdrops"
with links to the video on Anne's website and direct link to the video on YouTube.
Thanks for your help Maggi :)
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Our thoughts for this morning were correct a large snowfall and still going about 10cm here are a few pictures from the garden taken this morning, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Looks a bit miserable there, Ian. I think we had a few flakes during the night. Blue skies here just now but a bitterly cold wind. I do see some white fluffy clouds appearing over the trees to the south west so maybe we are in for snow too.
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I received this plant as Gray's Child, but not sure if it's correct? They're small bulbs so may take another year to show their best.
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The inner mark is fine as it can either be like this or a sort of H shape, it has the flare of gracilis too. I personally think that nearly all snowdrops take a couple of years to hunker down and achieve their full character. On top of this yellows and green tips may vary year to year (some green tips rarely showing that character). No doubt someone who grows it can comment with more authority (NB must check if I grow it ::))
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On top of this yellows and green tips may vary year to year (some green tips rarely showing that character)
This may well be true, but in the case of a variety with a known settling in issue of say, up to three years, I would have expected the seller to have made that clear to any purchasers, up front. This would be particularly pertinent if the vendor also advised that drops should be dug up every three years! Those galanthophiles who keep their varieties in pots and re-pot each year will, under those circumstance never achieve full colour.
In addition, if the drop is expensive, and you may not see its true character for up to three years, that may well influence your purchasing decision.
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This may well be true, but in the case of a variety with a known settling in issue of say, up to three years, I would have expected the seller to have made that clear to any purchasers, up front. This would be particularly pertinent if the vendor also advised that drops should be dug up every three years! Those galanthophiles who keep their varieties in pots and re-pot each year will, under those circumstance never achieve full colour.
In addition, if the drop is expensive, and you may not see its true character for up to three years, that may well influence your purchasing decision.
I have wondered exactly that Ingrid; i.e. if potted in smaller pond pots and divided regularly, then more time (or perhaps as you say pretty much all the time for some) will be spent in what could be described as an immature or checked expression stage as far as markings are concerned.
Does this get affected by whether bulbs are divided in the green or when dormant?
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The inner mark is fine as it can either be like this or a sort of H shape, it has the flare of gracilis too. I personally think that nearly all snowdrops take a couple of years to hunker down and achieve their full character. On top of this yellows and green tips may vary year to year (some green tips rarely showing that character). No doubt someone who grows it can comment with more authority (NB must check if I grow it ::))
That's helpful, thanks Brian. I could only find pictures showing the 'H' type marking so wasn't sure how variable this could be. Glad the other characters also conform. Pleased to have this one, which I received as a free gift.
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Lovely all of them Ann --I seem to remember a video somewhere in which you show the ins and outs of hybridizing --sorry I can't remember now whether it was Narcissus or Galanthus . Is that still able to be viewed please ?.
Cheers Dave.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyuB14euC4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyuB14euC4)
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OOps! Maggi already gave the link - thanks, Maggi!
edit: Happy to help, Anne - I think this will show the video embedded here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyuB14euC4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyuB14euC4)
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G. gracilis beginning to open on a sunny January 31.
Cheers to all of the fine photos here in January!
Rick
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woronowii and reginae olgae are species (hence their names are not capitalised). Flore Pleno is bound to be Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno' although that's really more of a descriptive term than a cultivar name. 'Bill Clark' belongs to the species plicatus and originated at Wandlebury Ring, just a few miles from where I live. I don't grow or really know 'Big Boy' so I cannot tell you about him.
This one is Galanthus elwesii var elwesii.
Thank you to Alan and Brian, only now I see your answer :)