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Title: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 08, 2010, 10:40:27 AM

'Baxendale's Late'. 8)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 08, 2010, 11:11:59 AM

G. angustifolius

(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_97a8f75b.jpg)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Yorkshirelass on April 11, 2010, 10:31:55 AM

Does anyone else find that their doubles just keep on flowering? I don't know if it is due to overcrowding that we get these smaller, later blooms, but as much as I like to look at snowdrops, I can't help feeling that they are beginning to look a little out of place...

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Alan_b on April 11, 2010, 12:51:28 PM

Quote from: Yorkshirelass on April 11, 2010, 10:31:55 AM

Does anyone else find that their doubles just keep on flowering?.......

I think this is fairly normal.  Double nivalis flowers don't have any female parts (style/stigma) so cannot get pollinated but they don't 'know' this so they hang around a long time waiting for something to happen!   

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 11, 2010, 02:47:03 PM

Galanthus artjuschenkoae

(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_6d912991.jpg)

Galanthus platyphyllus

(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_a6ada183.jpg)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: wolfgang vorig on April 11, 2010, 03:11:27 PM

Galanthus some of last week,

Wolfgang

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 11, 2010, 03:59:07 PM

Good gracious. You could retire on that last one! 8)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: KentGardener on April 12, 2010, 04:47:58 AM

Thank you Anthony, Olga and Wolfgang.  Just when I was convinced there would be no more snowdrops this season you Cheer me up with more photos of some lovely looking plants.   :)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Alan_b on April 12, 2010, 07:19:15 AM

That superb green Sharlockii reminded me of another incredibly green snowdrop I have only ever seen in pictures, 'Green Mile' http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3146.0 (bottom of page).  Actually they are not at all the same because Green Mile has a white spot at the tip of the outers.  Maybe green snowdrops will be the next big thing?     

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: partisangardener on April 12, 2010, 07:46:22 AM

from the north side of my studio. Last friday,
just ordinary mix.

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: olegKon on April 12, 2010, 08:08:49 AM

Just to compare the size. To the right is Galanthus elwesii Zwanenburgh, to the left - Galanthus Neil Fraser

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: olegKon on April 12, 2010, 08:10:41 AM

Sorry, quite the opposite. Zwanenburgh is the left one

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Paddy Tobin on April 13, 2010, 04:54:54 PM

Great to see these last few postings on snowdrops. Many thanks to all who posted.

Indeed, the green snowdrops seem to becoming more and more popular. It strikes me that, while we are very struck by green snowdrops here in western Europe, more and more of them are being found in natural populations of snowdrops in eastern Europe. Perhaps, what was to us rare and unusual is, in fact, relatively commonplace elsewhere and that they are not at all as rare as we had thought.

Paddy

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 13, 2010, 05:50:36 PM

Galanthus plicatus at my garden. Today.

(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_9a5b4a42.jpg)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 13, 2010, 05:52:24 PM

Wow! Wolfgang, Sharlockii is outstanding!

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 13, 2010, 06:01:23 PM

Hello Olga, you are in the middle of your galanthus season? Our season was only 13 days long.

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 13, 2010, 06:09:34 PM

Alan, Paddy! Green and green isn`t the same. There is a big difference between the virescens types like GREEN MILE or GREEN TEAR and the types with only big green areas at the outer petales. Virescens are very rare all over the world. May be the Canadian elwesii populations are a exception with a lot of Rosemary Burnham-types????
The group of ANGELINA and the new HUGH MACKENZIE is much bigger. So you can see some good foundlings coming from east Europe.

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 13, 2010, 06:12:24 PM

Olga, some pics of Galanthus platyphyllus show a big basal mark. Is that normally???

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 13, 2010, 06:36:43 PM

Hagen
It is cold every night so I hope my galanthus season will be longer.  :)

I am not sure my platyphyllus is true. Here are variations whithin one location.

(http://cs1935.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/22340033/x_f7fe8d09.jpg)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 13, 2010, 06:39:04 PM

Galanthus platyphyllus
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_a6ada183.jpg)

Galanthus cabardensis
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_1e8fb211.jpg)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 13, 2010, 07:11:37 PM

The variations are nice. Then you will find a virescens platyphyllus too ;)
Your photos look fantastic!!!

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on April 13, 2010, 08:25:03 PM

Quote from: Hagen Engelmann on April 13, 2010, 07:11:37 PM

The variations are nice. Then you will find a virescens platyphyllus too ;)
Your photos look fantastic!!!

Thanks! I hope so...

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Paddy Tobin on April 13, 2010, 08:33:56 PM

Yes, indeed, Olga. Excellent photographs.

Paddy

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Oakwood on April 14, 2010, 09:10:21 AM

To Olga's "G. platyphyllus" -  some pics of my morphologic investigations, in photo you find an androecium and anthers of pure G. platyphyllus from Georgia, and the same of Olga's "platyphyllus" from S Russia
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1652.0 (post 358)
:) so find 10 differencies  ;)  ;)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: partisangardener on April 17, 2010, 03:05:07 PM

Which galanthus grows  in south Italy? Friends which have been two weeks ago in South Italy pictured this one in a nature reserve.
The second one is the same place but already fruiting

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: Thomas Huber on April 17, 2010, 08:37:43 PM

Hi Axel. This is Galanthus reginae-olgae ssp vernalis, the spring flowering form of reg-olg.
These are very frequently in Southern Italy, I also found a lot of them in 2008.

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: partisangardener on April 17, 2010, 08:51:54 PM

Thank you Thomas now I know what they look like. I think them quite attractive, must have a look for somebody who sells them. Maybe seeds or something. ;)

Title: Re: Galanthus April 2010
Post by: bulborum on April 20, 2010, 07:20:38 AM

Hello Axel

I have some spare ones
maybe we can swap

Roland