Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Hannelore on October 09, 2019, 05:29:42 PM
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Here we are:
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Three little Pink Panthers - unfortunately does the camera not catch the fine pink color, but it is there!
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Galanthus Regina-Olgae just planted in September
Hannelore
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"Look at the pink, look at the pink, look at the pink, the pink, the pink!"
I'm misquoting Danny Kaye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t80UDdbV3Mk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t80UDdbV3Mk) because he sings "King" not "pink" but the idea is much the same - a wonderful magical pink colour that cannot be captured in any image. I have seen these snowdrops in real life and I agree they are not the same pure white of most of the other snowdrops but they are no more a genuine pink colour than we have a genuine blue rose.
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There is a glow not found on other snowdrops. I would describe it as an iridescence and in the right light looks pink!
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For my first post on this site it seems appropriate to show a Pink Panther photo I recently put on the galanthophiles Facebook site. I am waiting for a pup from this but am very pleased with the colouring this year. Hope you like it.
PS The photo has gone sideways - not sure how to correct it!
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edit by maggi - rotated the photo for you, Richard- it shows the pink well!
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Is that indoors?
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Hi, no it has been grown outdoors in a pot - put into a planter with other RO's on the patio so we can enjoy them.
Regards
Richard
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"Look at the pink, look at the pink, look at the pink, the pink, the pink!"
I'm misquoting Danny Kaye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t80UDdbV3Mk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t80UDdbV3Mk) because he sings "King" not "pink" but the idea is much the same - a wonderful magical pink colour that cannot be captured in any image. I have seen these snowdrops in real life and I agree they are not the same pure white of most of the other snowdrops but they are no more a genuine pink colour than we have a genuine blue rose.
If you want to enjoy the pink, go out of the garish sun light. Use a rainy day ...then you feel in love to this and other soft colorated snowdrops ...
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Less unique than these coloured beauties, but so welcome: Galanthus r-o 'Tilebarn Jamie', also planted this spring (from Andrew Thorpe):
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Looking for my Galanthus peshmeni I found a problem: The snowdrops are there, but "invisible" because Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum has captured the place. Now I do not know what to do. The two species seem to do well together, the only problem is that the snowdrops are not visible.
Should I dig out and separate them? And when is the best time to do it? I could also just cut the epimedium stalks on the bottom so that the snowdrops can be seen?
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Here are greetings from Corfu ;D
they grows here since 13 years without any protection
Have fun
Hans 8)
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My first ever Galanthus reginae-olgae, they came from Ireland and straight to the pot, and after some two weeks I had already the first flowers. very happy with it! ;D
Thank you.
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Really pretty ones, they look very happy in there!
Thanks for sharing.
Here are greetings from Corfu ;D
they grows here since 13 years without any protection
Have fun
Hans 8)
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Things I wish I'd thought of sooner - here are a lot of hand-pollinated hopeful hybrids of Galanthus reginae-olgae x peshmenii. How to tell whether they actually have hybridised? If I'd done the cross the other way around, using G peshmenii as the seed parent, the presence of the silver stripe down the leaves would have been the giveaway. As it is I've no idea. Any suggestions?
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Looking for my Galanthus peshmeni I found a problem: The snowdrops are there, but "invisible" because Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum has captured the place. Now I do not know what to do. The two species seem to do well together, the only problem is that the snowdrops are not visible.
Should I dig out and separate them? And when is the best time to do it? I could also just cut the epimedium stalks on the bottom so that the snowdrops can be seen?
I would cut way the epimedium stalks that are hiding the snowdrops, then leave the rest.
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Anne, thank you for your article about chipping in the International Rock Gardener. :)
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Anne, thank you for your article about chipping in the International Rock Gardener. :)
I echo your thanks, Leena - it is very kind of Anne to share such detailed advice with everyone.
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I expect you all to be chipping away next year - no excuses! ;D ;D
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Thanks indeed to Anne for generously sharing her knowledge/experience.
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Thanks to the SRGC for making IRG pdfs freely available online!
Tim DH
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Something experimental: G. elwesii x peshmenii
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(https://up.picr.de/37088495rx.jpg)
vernation
(https://up.picr.de/37088494at.jpg)
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Interesting! An a nice inner mark too.
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Very pretty, Mariette!
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A very interesting hybrid, Mariette. In the photograph I cannot see a notch on the inner petal. Is that correct or is it just too small to be easily visible?
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Thank You, both Annes and Alan!
Yes, Alan, the notch is unusually small, one of the inners reminded more of G. krasnovii than of either G. peshmenii or elwesii. But not all of these hybrids look like that - this is a pot with the first flowers 2 years ago.
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Really pretty, I love that inner mark ;D
Something experimental: G. elwesii x peshmenii
flower
vernation
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I'm not a galanthophile but this week i saw nice Galanthus reginae-olgae in the Tageytos mountains.