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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Harald-Alex. on April 01, 2018, 09:08:37 PM
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At the end of the saison I could compare the sizes of some snowdrop-flowers:
Foto 1: - the biggest G. elwesii flower in compare with a German G. nivalis flower
Foto 2: - G. nivalis in compare with G woronowii, yellow findling
Foto 3: - German G. nivalis in compare with an English G. nivalis from Anglesay Abbey (the best grower of my garden!)
Foto 4: - G. nivalis in compare with G. nivalis Viridapice
Foto 5: - G. nivalis in compare with lateflowering G. nivalis Atkinsii
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Still quite a lot of snowdrops here- and the rohods are getting into their stride as well .....
Bulb Log Video Diary Supplement from Ian Young - Rhododendrons, Galanthus, Corydalis and more flowering on 1st April
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_e5NtmuFTs&t=14s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_e5NtmuFTs&t=14s)
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Harald-Alex, you had very good pictures to compare snowdrops. :)
I have G.nivalis from several sources and there seems to be quite a lot of difference in their flower size, though they are smaller than bigger hybrids.
Maggi, your garden is my dream come true! :)
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Harald-Alex, you had very good pictures to compare snowdrops. :)
I have G.nivalis from several sources and there seems to be quite a lot of difference in their flower size, though they are smaller than bigger hybrids.
Maggi, your garden is my dream come true! :)
Hi Leena, it is interesting, that the common G. nivalis of Anglesey Abbey are stronger, than G. nivalis from here. From Anglesey Abbey I got in february 2015 a bunch of 10 bulbs in the green and they developed in three year to more than 60 flowers 2018, it is the best rate in my snowdropgarden!
During strong frosts and heavy snow they are very hard, see Foto!
Greetings Harald Alex
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Slowly our spring is coming.
'Atkinsii'
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Last, but by no means least Galanthus Platyphyllus flowering in the garden today!
Delighted with this as I love the various species drops. Interestingly, 6 days ago there was not even a shoot visible, so it has grown like fury!
Been a good year for species, Alpinus, Krasnovii, Fosterii, and others have done very well!
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Last, but by no means least Galanthus Platyphyllus flowering in the garden today!
Delighted with this as I love the various species drops. Interestingly, 6 days ago there was not even a shoot visible, so it has grown like fury!
Been a good year for species, Alpinus, Krasnovii, Fosterii, and others have done very well!
Hallo Blonde Inge, the G. platyphyllos fotos are very well and this variety seem to be the latest in flowering. I look for them for my snowdropgarden for the next saison! The this-years-saisonstarted in 2.10.2017 and endet with a late big flowering G. elwesii from Turkey, in the foto in comparision with a usual G.nivalis. In the second foto is a late, large flower with long flowerleaves.
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Slowly our spring is coming.
'Atkinsii'
Soon, Leena, it must be soon! It is a pleasure to think of your season which extends our pleasure in the spring.
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Hallo Blonde Inge, the G. platyphyllos fotos are very well and this variety seem to be the latest in flowering. I look for them for my snowdropgarden for the next saison! The this-years-saisonstarted in 2.10.2017 and endet with a late big flowering G. elwesii from Turkey, in the foto in comparision with a usual G.nivalis. In the second foto is a late, large flower with long flowerleaves.
Hi Harald-Alex,
Good to hear from you. My season starts about a month earlier than your's with G. Reginae-olgae and Peshmenii. The Platyphyllus marked the end of my season. Your elwesii looks great, very nice size.
The good news is that the prime period for new snowdrop acquisitions has now started, plus seed collection and sowing. Plenty to do! ;D ;D
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Harald-Alex:
Interesting photos. Today, I sorted out buried a yellowing Wendy's Gold seed pod. Am I doing it wrong? I have no idea. I read that the ants or slugs might lay claim to the seeds before I do. In a panic, I sort of pressed the yellow pod into the soil and put some grit on top!
Please don't laugh and tell me if I should unbury it tomorrow. Totally new here!
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WSGR: Poking the pod under, and leaving it will work ok, but make sure you do not mistake the seedlings for weeds and pull them out! If you haven't already looked at this thread - http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11117.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11117.0) -, it is well worth doing so, and working slowly through as it is a long story.
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It is a pleasure to think of your season which extends our pleasure in the spring.
Maggi, weather forecast looks promising now, no more night frosts and day temperatures between 0-10C so snow should melt now. More snowdrops noses have come up in past few days through snow. :)
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Harald-Alex:
Interesting photos. Today, I sorted out buried a yellowing Wendy's Gold seed pod. Am I doing it wrong? I have no idea. I read that the ants or slugs might lay claim to the seeds before I do. In a panic, I sort of pressed the yellow pod into the soil and put some grit on top!
Please don't laugh and tell me if I should unbury it tomorrow. Totally new here!
Hallo WSGR, I think You have done well, to collect the yellow seedcapsels, whe You will get snowdropseedlings! But I mean, not wait to long with sowing in pods with humous-sandy soil! I myself did not ccolleted the seeds till now. I found the growing seedlings some years later nearby in undisturbed places and then I marked and collected the flowers of interrest!
Now I an retired and will also collect the seeds of good varieties for growing! Greetings from Germany Harald Alex
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Hi Harald-Alex,
Good to hear from you. My season starts about a month earlier than your's with G. Reginae-olgae and Peshmenii. The Platyphyllus marked the end of my season. Your elwesii looks great, very nice size.
The good news is that the prime period for new snowdrop acquisitions has now started, plus seed collection and sowing. Plenty to do! ;D ;D
Hallo Blonde Ingrid, thank You for Your nice comment. Since yesterday we have warm and sunny weather with 24°C and the common snowdrops ended flowering abrupt!
Only some lateplanted G. elwesii from Turkey are well yet. I found under the latest snowdrops some special flowers:
foto1. - a G. elwesii with four flowerpetals
foto2. - a G. elwesii with deep-yellow markers (looks like the yellow of a bio-egg!)
At last a foto (3) of the small park in front of our farm-house full in blue from thousands of Scilla sibirica.
The collection of new snowdrop-varieties has started already with three pakets of nurseries of Great Britain, Netherland and Belgium with 25 new snowdrops in the green, which came here in good conditions and grow in pots till the end. Greetings from Germany Harald Alex
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That Scilla carpet is magnificent!
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That Scilla carpet is magnificent!
thank You, Johnralph, for Your nice comment. This blue scilla-meadow in the park of Schurigshof is really an "Eyescatcher".
The house is buildt in 1866 "on the field" near Döbrichau and from this time is also the park with the big trees and I think also the springbulbs snowdrops and Scillas.
We have found there also two old English roses in white and violett-red and a great smell. Now we try to propagate these two!
Since 1993 this "Schurigshof" is our farmhouse of our turfgrasfarm.
In the fotos You can see two fotos of the Scilla-carpet, one of the old red English rose and the backside of our farmhouse with a British Red Box, we have got from the area of the British Troops in Berlin Gatow, after 1991! Greetings from Döbrichau Harald alex
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Galanthus platyphyllus is flowering here too
Another late flowerer is Galanthus plicatus 'Warham Group' it is a prolific seeder and the bulbs increase quickly too
I found this pot of Galanthus woronowii in Dobbies Garden Centre less than 2 weeks ago. I used to have a big patch of woronowii under my birch trees and when the trees were due to be cut a few years and the stumps ground I did not lift any because I thought enough of the would survive. they did not so I was pleased to find replacements so late in the season
I got this Galanthus elwesii from Fred Sutherland in 1994. It has not increased much. The flowers are fairly big but the leaves are enormous.
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G.platyphyllus looks like no other snowdrop!
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... except Galanthus krasnovii (the other snowdrop without a notch on the inner petals).
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Alan, here is 'Green Light' coming up today :)
Other pictures:
G.nivalis
'Atkinsii' (label was still frozen to the ground and I couldn't get if off)
'Trympostor' (planted last summer).
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After sunshine and temperatures till 25 °C I thought, the snowdrop-time is over, but I found some very late flowers:
foto 1: a snowdrop with spiral-turned leaves
foto 2: a snowdrop with very broad leaves
foto 3: a very late and pure white flower
foto 4: a snowdrop with very narrow long flowers
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You have such a long snowdrop season! :)
Here many snowdrops are now beginning to flower, some haven't yet come up, and soon it is the best time for them, but this year season starts so late that it is inevitable that warm weather will come in May and snowdrops will be over soon. I'll enjoy them as long as I can. :)
The first is my 'Kildare'.
Second is 'More the Merrier' .
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Do keep posting, Leena. Seeing pictures of your snowdrops helps stave-off my withdrawal symptoms.
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Along with Alan I am delighted to see these in bloom in some areas that have much longer winters. So thank you Roma and Leena. Here are a few of my own which are blooming in the garden with shots taken over the past week.
Enjoy, Rick
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G. nivalis 'Doncaster Double Charmer'
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G. nivalis 'Noalene'
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G. nivalis 'The Alburgh Claw'
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G. 'Trumps'
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...and a few more from this past week. Rick
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G. nivalis 'Lady Elphinstone'
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G. nivalis 'Blewbury Tart'
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G. elwesii 'Plymouth Rock'
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G. nivalis 'Cinderella'
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G. elwesii 'Jessica'
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And the last one for the evening...G. nivalis 'Hugh Mackenzie'.
Enjoy,
Rick
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Leena's garden is escaping the snow - and Rick seems to be getting decent weather to enjoy his 'drops - how lovely to see the season progress in the gardens of others.
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Walking round local park, had my first sighting this year of a snowdrop pod gutted by slugs (or snails). That should kick me into putting bags on my crop.
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Thanks Alan and Maggi. :)
And the last one for the evening...G. nivalis 'Hugh Mackenzie'.
Mine just showed it's nose last week-end. :) Very nice to see your snowdrop photos!
Most of my garden is now free of snow, but in some places there is still some which now melts fast. These pictures were taken yesterday and this morning about half of the snow still in this bed had disappeared.
First G.nivalis emerging from the snow.
More G.nivalis in an earlier place in the garden.
'Viridapice' does very well here, I bought one bulb in 2011 and divided the clump two years ago, and soon could divide it again.
'Mrs Macnamara', also a good doer here, it comes up early but doesn't mind cold and freezing, it just keeps on growing when it finally warms up.
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Two small snowdrops. G.nivalis cultivars seem to do well for me, and I like them a lot.
'Ray Cobb'
'Greenish'
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Two small snowdrops. G.nivalis cultivars seem to do well for me, and I like them a lot.
'Ray Cobb'
'Greenish'
Leena, thank you for your kind words. It is great fun to see all of your fresh and alive Snowdrops this morning. They look very happy with you. I think we must have some similar winter gardening experiences with a lot of snow cover at least during typical winters. Overall, I have generally found nivalis to consistently perform better in these conditions than other species. Elwesii does fairly well here, too. Your 'Greenish' and 'Ray Cobb' both look superb. Happy Spring!
Rick
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'Greenish'
In my garden 'Greenish' would flower at least six weeks later than, say, 'Green Light'.
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Alan, also here 'Green Light' would like to flower earlier :), it has always come up when there is still snow and ice, while 'Greenish' has come up after snow has melted. So I think if grown side by side also here 'Green Light' would be earlier than 'Greenish'. Now they grow in different beds, and the bed where 'Greenish' grows loses the snow cover earlier. I'm planning to move some earlier snowdrops there, too, though here they wouldn't flower as early than in UK anyway because of the weather conditions.
I think we must have some similar winter gardening experiences with a lot of snow cover at least during typical winters. Overall, I have generally found nivalis to consistently perform better in these conditions than other species. Elwesii does fairly well here, too.
Yes, G.nivalis seems to be best to grow here, and mostly they also multiply quite well by bulbs, too. G.elwesii does ok, but in my garden it doesn't multiply well, it might have to do with soil pH or something like that, because I know that for others in Finland G.elwesii does well. As well as G.nivalis, I like G.plicatus most, and some of them do well for me, but in my garden they grow best in more moist (but not wet) woodland bed than in drier conditions. G.nivalis and it's cultivars do well everywhere in my garden. :)
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I was talking to an American gentleman called Hitch Lyman whilst standing next to him in a queue earlier this year. He was adamant that in his garden he could grow nivalis but not elwesii. See https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/garden-directory/hitch-lyman-s-garden (https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/garden-directory/hitch-lyman-s-garden) perhaps?
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That is interesting, Alan. :)
Couple of years ago I sent seeds from my G.nivalis to someone in Alaska. I hope they are doing well over there.
Couple of pictures from today.
G.nivalis. I should divide this clump, they multiply really fast.
G.nivalis 'Flore Pleno'
'Ballerina', planted last summer. I was surprised to see that it is much bigger than 'Flore Pleno' or 'Lady Beatrix Stanley', really nice snowdrop.
'Falkland House' seems also to do well for me.
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First picture, 'Mrs Macnamara' on the right, 'Gerard Parker' in the middle and 'Moreton Mill' in the background.
'Lady Elphinstone' is doing well here. It was a gift from a kind forumist. :)
G.caucasicus form from Leonid Bondarenko is very slow to grow here, but it is alive. Maybe it doesn't like it's place.
In more moist bed G.alpinus var bortkewitschianus multiplies well, it has rather small flowers.
In the last picture it is in the front, and in the back there is G.plicatus 'Oreanda'.
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I have written earlier that G.elwesii does not do so well in my garden than G.nivalis. However they live, it's just that they usually don't multiply so well for me, but I have some G.elwesii.
First are nameless G.elwesii from garden center bulbs many years ago, they are good in that way that they set seeds and I get seedlings from them.
Second is 'Fenstead End', planted two years ago and now there are four flowers when last year there was only one, so it seems good.
Then there is 'Big Boy', with huge flowers, and I'm very relieved to see that it has come up and even double compared to last year.
Last picture is 'Lord Lieutenant', and very nice snowdrop and you can see it from far. The markings in the inner seem to develop as the bulbs mature.
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A delight to see your snowdrops coming out so well, Leena - the plantings are so natural, very appealing.
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the plantings are so natural, very appealing.
Thanks Maggi, I like them, too. :)
It was nice of you to say natural, some would say untidy, but dry leaves protect my plants during the winter, and even though the ground freezes, I hope it doesn't freeze very deep with leaf cover. :)
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Some pictures of snowdrops taken the last day of April.
'S.Arnott' always good one for me.
'Washfield Colesbourne' is a nice one which I like.
'Fieldgate Forte' is not doing so well, I should move it someplace else.
G.plicatus from Augis bulbs does very well here and is one of my favourites.
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I like poculiform nivalis, this is 'Moreton Mill'.
Yellow snowdrops were quite late here this year, 'Wendy's Gold' and 'Spindlestone Surprise' are not yet even in full flower, it maybe due to deep frost in the bed where they grow, but right close to them G.nivalis Sandersii (Lutescens from Dryad) came up earlier and has increased well from one bulb two years ago. :)
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It´s fascinating to see all these lovely snowdrops flowering in Your garden! In mine, they´re all about to go dormant, and the peony species are in flower now.
Leena, I think G. elwesii does comparetively well in Your garden. In my experience, only a few clones clump quickly - they are not like most G. nivalis, regarding this aspect.
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Thanks Mariette. :)
Some snowdrops in the earliest places are already going over also here, but most are still fine, and some late ones are only starting flower. It will be a short snowdrop season for me this year, weather is going to be very warm next week so spring flowers are going over fast then.