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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Blonde Ingrid on November 05, 2018, 12:19:37 PM
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A Melvyn Jope day in sunny East Anglia and some real beauties!
First up Gr-o Fotini, a beautiful RO with green striped outers. This has been temperamental in terms of flowering here but well worth the wait. It has bulked up extremely well.
Next, Melvyn's hugely imposing Jane Nicholls, still flowering well and again bulking like fury.
Next Sofia and Lefki, both with amazing perfume.
There is no better place to source Gr-os than MJ!
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Lots going on with your "late year" 'drops, Ingrid!
Have you had any rain in the garden yet?
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Lots going on with your "late year" 'drops, Ingrid!
Have you had any rain in the garden yet?
Nothing significant yet. I am glad a declared my own Autumn and drenched my drops in September and kept watering from then. Plenty are coming through now.
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Your dry spell has been a long one - ours was bad enough - but we have had fairly regular rain for the last few weeks. Still quite dry in some parts of the garden though.
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Some snowdrops of today: Matt B., plicatus autumn flowering, early to Rize , Peter Gatehouse, rihzensis Lady Latife
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Opening today and I think the earliest I've ever had it flowering is three ships.
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Galanthus 'Three Ships'
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G. r.-o. spp. r.-o. 'Mette' in the sun yesterday
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Peter Gatehouse looking good today. Hollis, Three Ships and Barnes also flowering now.
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G. peshmenii, today in Virginia
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G. peshmenii, today in Virginia
Is that the usual time for it to appear for you, Tim?
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Peter Gatehouse looking good today. Hollis, Three Ships and Barnes also flowering now.
That is a lovely looking group, David. Peter Gatehouse seems to increase well.
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Opening today and I think the earliest I've ever had it flowering is three ships.
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Galanthus 'Three Ships'
Hallo Shauney, this means, that, when "Three Ships" flowers, the spring-snowdrop-saison starts! - Middle november!
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Galanthus reginae-olgae ´Cambridge´with 4 tepals this year.
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... and a green stripe on the inner ;)
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Another view.
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in my new glas-house now grow more than 60 new varieties of snowdrops for my snowdrop-garden next year! Some of them I will show in the first springflower-show of Torgau in 9. and 10. march 2019 and then set in the garden. some of the snowdrops are wild varieties from the homelands, which get a special place here!
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I don't have any named varieties of autumn flowering snowdrops. Galanthus corcyrensis flowers over a long period.
A small group in full sun in the front garden flowering on October 30th
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This group in the back garden, pictured on November 10th get no sun all the time they are above ground and spend most of the summer shaded by a large hosta.
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Nice large groups, and a well-shaped selection, too! In our area, G. reginae-olgae is not always hardy. This nameless one is not very showy, but survived the last 15 or more years outdoors. Alas, it´s not such a prolific grower as´Cambridge´and ´Tilebarn Jamie´.
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Nice roros guys.
This weird reginae-olgae decided to show late, had to open the flower by hand, but there were 5 outers to my surprise! Like the way it looks, but very unlikely to be stable.
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Now wouldn't that be sensational if it was stable! Following the tradition you could call it 'Pende' ;)
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G. ro-ro 'Fotini' was late this year but is now still going strong
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Now wouldn't that be sensational if it was stable! Following the tradition you could call it 'Pende' ;)
Haha yeah, or fivesome after Joe Sharman’s cultivar, will keep my eyes on it next year.
Fotini looks great, 3 scapes even. The best roro so far IMHO. ;D
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"He's making a list
He's checking it twice"
He would be better off checking the calendar, as usual Santa Claus flowers before Remember Remember here. A little later this year than usual for me but still well before Christmas!
Next Else Grollenberg, a green tipped drop, originally from the Dordogne. Clumping well for me and always early flowering.
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Clever of you to show us 'Santa Claus' without actually mentioning Christmas, Ingrid. ;D
Someone used that word in company the other day and I had to administer hot, sweet tea to the swooning victim! Some folks find it very hard to contemplate the rapid arrival of that time of year, though I imagine anyone who has been in a garden centre within the last two months must have got the general idea!
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After the Galanthus reg-olgae I fond today in open grounds under fallen leafs the first common Galanthus nivalis, which is very early!I think, it will be a good saison with thousands of snowdropflowers!
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How unusual, Alex!
Lets hope for a good season. In my region it was too dry in spring, so bulbs may not have multiplied well.
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-2 N Wales today. Snowdrops are coming up earlier than usual but those in flower lasting well. So many out but these are Blue Octopus, Hollis and Magda.
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Magda looks particularly lovely with the long pedicel. I've never seen it before. Is it a reginae-olgae?
Here G. elwesii 'Hoggets Narrow' has been in bloom for a couple of weeks now.
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Hello Anne. Yes it is a reginae-olgae bought from Joe last year, it does look like a good one.
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Good to know, thank you, Susan
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Through the gloom of the cold rain today, we spotted noses of spring flowering Galanthus emerging from the ground. Poor little devils will have along wait!
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we spotted noses of spring flowering Galanthus emerging from the ground. Poor little devils will have along wait!
It is the same here, noses of early spring flowering snowdrops are emerging, but they will wait until winter is over in March (I hope). :) G.nivalis shows already now as usual, but it has never actually flowered until March or April. They always seem to be in a hurry to come up, but then slow down for the winter.
The real autumn flowering drops didn't survive here through the past two cold winters. It is good that I have tried them and so I now know they are not for our climate.
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Note from Paul Barney of Edulis Nursery ....
"It is that time of year again! My full Edulis galanthus list (290 varieties) will be available Saturday 1st December. It will be sent out to all those on the mailing list. If you would like to be added or you are not certain whether you are on my mailing list then please email to edulisnursery@gmail.com"
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Snowdrop season now officially under way here! Eilys Elisabeth Hartley retains her position as our earliest green tip by far. Hollis is well up too, along with G. reginae-olgae vernalis. Bringing lots of comments from visitors is a clump of Galanthus elwesii hiemalis group Barnes in my front garden, which has been in flower since the beginning of November. What a super snowdrop it is, a classic and I think worthy of an AGM.
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Eilys Elisabeth Hartley retains her position as our earliest green tip by far.
Not only is is early and one of the most stunning green-tipped snowdrops, but it also carries the mark of Wright, it is a super do'er of a snowdrop. Here is my single bulb from last year already showing signs of a forest of bulbs.
This is a typical feature of Anne's bulbs and is evident across my yellow collection and others! :o :o ::) ::)
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Your photo was lying down on the job, Ingrid! I've rotated it for you. Multiple new growth is quite clear!
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A Galanthus elwesii, got two years ago, starts very early with flowering in open ground. Last year the inner markers was yellow and now I wait for opening of the flower to see, if the yellow colour is stable!
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Your photo was lying down on the job, Ingrid! I've rotated it for you. Multiple new growth is quite clear!
Thanks Maggi, I know how it feels after planting several hundred Tulips today! ;D ;D ;D
This sort of increase is typical of Anne's drops, her yellows, including some of the clones I am trialling for her are doing the same.