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Title: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 01, 2012, 08:50:22 AM
Janis gave me the inspiration for this april topic.
Here is another G. nivalis poculiforme.
It came from a churchyard so it is called GEDENKEMEIN.

Looks very different to Janis`s one.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Webster008 on April 01, 2012, 08:53:43 PM
This is an excellent find Hagen ;D
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Janis Ruksans on April 02, 2012, 05:53:32 AM
I named it 'Poculi Perfect', but it is not my breed - I baught stock from Czech friend who found this plant in nature. Afraid that it is too late for me to becoms "galanthophile", for me is sufficient to be in "croconut" club ;D
Janis
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 02, 2012, 06:11:59 AM
Janis the world of croconut has much much more colors. So I often like to walk in your world too. It is a big pleasure.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Pauli on April 02, 2012, 05:24:56 PM
Hello,

my platyphyllos from Georgia is just coming into flower ;D
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 04, 2012, 07:27:40 AM
Some new drops coming in my garden

G. angustifolius aff. from C. Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia - plants with broad applanate dark-green glaucous leaves
G. elwesii, Turkey
G. graecus - a green one from Odessa region
G. nivalis - some selections made last year from the wild in Kiev region
G. plicatus - from non-specific, not-Crimean Ukrainian locus Kholodny Yar in Cherkassy region
G. plicatus, Crimea
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 04, 2012, 09:42:06 AM
Cheers Dimitri, lovely to see them on a dull rainy morning :)
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Maggi Young on April 04, 2012, 01:22:59 PM
They are making a wonderful Birthday Bouquet for you Dima.
Many Happy Rerurns of the Day!
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Gerard Oud on April 04, 2012, 03:55:14 PM
Happy Birthday Dima!

That green looks more yellow to me, even more special :o
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 04, 2012, 07:09:00 PM
Green Green Greetings to Your birthday, Dimitri
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: daveyp1970 on April 04, 2012, 08:56:55 PM
Dimitri i love the shape of f1 nivalis very nice.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 05, 2012, 11:40:39 AM
Thanks guys! yes, it was yesterday........ ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  :-X
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 06, 2012, 09:20:59 AM
Dimitri i love the shape of f1 nivalis very nice.
Reminiscent of "Finchale Abbey".
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: daveyp1970 on April 06, 2012, 09:24:14 AM
Dimitri i love the shape of f1 nivalis very nice.
Reminiscent of "Finchale Abbey".
It is Anthony and very nice shape indeed.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Alan_b on April 06, 2012, 11:42:19 AM
very nice shape indeed.

Exactly what I thought.  I also like Finchale Abbey (but I quickly killed the one sent to me by a kind forumist).
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 08, 2012, 09:42:48 AM
very nice shape indeed.

Exactly what I thought.  I also like Finchale Abbey (but I quickly killed the one sent to me by a kind forumist).
Contact Barrie......... 8)
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 11, 2012, 08:48:33 AM
the snowdrop festival cotinues in Ukraine!

G. alpinus var. alpinus and var. bortkewitschianus from different wild locations in N, W and C Caucasus, Russia, Georgia
G. lagodechianus from kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
G. trojanus
G. elwesii Zwanenburg cultivar
G. plicatus, Crimea

Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 11, 2012, 09:01:39 AM
You are fortunate to see these Dimitri, G.trojanus  :o :o are there many variations to the mark in this one?
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 11, 2012, 09:01:55 AM
G. krasnovii from different locations, Abkhazia, Turkey
G. platyphyllus from S and N Osetia, Georgia
G. panjutinii sp. nova from Russia (from our Olga)))))
and this one G. nivalis with strange flowers.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 11, 2012, 09:04:46 AM
Wow, I'd happily re-home that platyphyllus from the Krestovy Pass, what colouring!
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: annew on April 11, 2012, 09:07:17 AM
It is very interesting to see these rare species in the wild, Dimitri, thank you for showing them.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 11, 2012, 09:14:14 AM
It is very interesting to see these rare species in the wild, Dimitri, thank you for showing them.
Anne, it is in my garden, not in the wild!!!! ;D
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 11, 2012, 09:46:55 AM
Thanks for posting Dimtri. I have memories of krasnovii and platyphylus (some people can be very generous) flowering in my garden, but it is a delight to see more pics and especially valentinae.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 11, 2012, 09:51:18 AM
You are fortunate to see these Dimitri, G.trojanus  :o :o are there many variations to the mark in this one?
I suppose it could be variable, Brian, as all drop species! But this year I have only 2 plants blooming from my total 4 plants of G. trojanus.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Melvyn Jope on April 11, 2012, 10:05:16 AM
Hello Dimitri, what a fabulous selection of plants, like Brian I think the G.platyphyllus from Krestovy Pass is particularly nice.
Many thanks for showing us.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 11, 2012, 10:11:47 AM
Hello Dimitri, what a fabulous selection of plants, like Brian I think the G.platyphyllus from Krestovy Pass is particularly nice.
Many thanks for showing us.
Thanks, Melvyn! Welcome home - very showy trip in Greece - many thanks for sharing with us!
It's first time I have flowering this platyphyllus from Krestovy Pass that I've got from a friend from Nalchik  - I'm surprised even more than you to see such not orthodox inner segment coloration of it))))
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 11, 2012, 10:58:44 AM
Josef Jurášek advertises seed of Galanthus trojanus. I have some, but they have yet to germinate.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: annew on April 11, 2012, 07:22:33 PM
It is very interesting to see these rare species in the wild, Dimitri, thank you for showing them.
Anne, it is in my garden, not in the wild!!!! ;D
Then you are a lucky man!
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 11, 2012, 08:26:12 PM
Thank you Dima, I enjoy your fantastic gallery of unusual galanthus. Yes the inner whole green platyphyllus is one of the best.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: KentGardener on April 13, 2012, 04:44:50 AM
I had wandered away from the Galanthus thread for this year as I thought the season was over.  Brian spoke to me on the phone yesterday and told me to have a look at Dimitri's wondering photographs. 

Thank you Brian for telling me - and thank you Dimitri for posting pictures of these wonderful flowers.  Great minds think alike.... I too particularly like Graecus Green, Nivalis F1, platyphyllus from the Krestovy Pass.  8)

And of course Chuguyster  ;D
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 13, 2012, 12:10:34 PM
not at all, Hagen!
thanks, John! want make an experiment with my Chuguyster - to try infect a normal plant of nivalis just to see is it contagious infection that lead to such phenotype or it is smth else........
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: johnw on April 13, 2012, 03:17:31 PM
Dimitri - Wonderful snowdrops.  And you grow them outdoors in the garden there?

Can you tell us something of your climate in Kiev?  Do you have hot dry summers, late springs?  I see you say Zone 5 so I assume you can fall to -26C to -32C (-15F to -25 F).  Is this with snow cover as a rule? Rainfall?

Keep posting.

johnw  - +5c & sunny
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Natalia on April 17, 2012, 07:14:43 AM
Spring has come to us ... first appeared on Saturday Galanthus caucasicus ... The last 40 cm of snow are disappearing at enormous speed. And this is what came out of the snow yesterday during the day.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 17, 2012, 09:15:41 AM
Gosh Natalia, in your second picture is the alpinus sitting in a depth of water or is it ice?
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Janis Ruksans on April 17, 2012, 02:58:28 PM
My last indoor snowdrop - Galanthus krasnowii - not sufficiently hardy outydoors here.
Janis
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 17, 2012, 04:22:50 PM
Janis, the pic is best, the name of the pic is OK.
But what do you mean with Galanthus worinowii???
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Janis Ruksans on April 17, 2012, 07:18:53 PM
Janis, the pic is best, the name of the pic is OK.
But what do you mean with Galanthus worinowii???
Oh stupid Janis ;D :'( ;D Mistake in printing - now corrected.
Janis
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 17, 2012, 09:18:03 PM
Galanthus krasnovii - it`s very special. I like it also very much.
I thought it is hardy enough for East Germany. But it is not!!!
So I learnt this winter the same lesson like Janis.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 19, 2012, 10:12:47 AM
the last pics of them at me - end of bloomtime :-\ :-\

G. krasnovii ex Abkhazia - overwinter outdoors in my garden in SE Ukraine
my lovely Liussia)) 14 years old
G. trojanus - hope this time it would be with seeds))))
G. plicatus variegata Savrasska, Crimean selection
G. nivalis Chuguyster with flower stalk that grows all time!
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Oakwood on April 19, 2012, 10:17:32 AM
Dimitri - Wonderful snowdrops.  And you grow them outdoors in the garden there?

Can you tell us something of your climate in Kiev?  Do you have hot dry summers, late springs?  I see you say Zone 5 so I assume you can fall to -26C to -32C (-15F to -25 F).  Is this with snow cover as a rule? Rainfall?

Keep posting.

johnw  - +5c & sunny

Thanks, John! yes, these species I grow in my garden in SE Ukraine, outdoors. This isn't in Kiev (that is more in the North of Ukraine) but in Donetsk. Hot summer, severe continental climate, rainy autumn till December, snowy January till March, it could be frosts up to -24C but with snow
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: mark smyth on April 24, 2012, 02:09:03 PM
lovely plants Natalia

This morning some white in one of my troughs caught my eye. I have two very late G. elwesii Michael Myer's Green Tipped
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Natalia on April 25, 2012, 07:59:24 AM
Thank you, Mark!
  I would like to show more snowdrops, but can not do it, as we all do: (
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 26, 2012, 08:05:12 PM
Natalia, why not???

I like the very late pics from "far" east.
You bring some more long weeks in our Galanthus season.

Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Maggi Young on April 26, 2012, 08:06:17 PM
Natalia, why not???

I like the very late pics from "far" east.
You bring some more long weeks in our Galanthus season.

Hagen, I think it is because we cannot post photos to the Forum at this time.  :)
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on April 26, 2012, 08:09:57 PM
OK Maggi, I understand.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Natalia on May 07, 2012, 02:29:57 PM
Slightly late because of changes on our forum, I want to show some Galanthus that bloomed in my garden this spring.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Brian Ellis on May 07, 2012, 03:39:22 PM
Never too late Natalia  ;D  That first picture is super, I think they are great when the petals sweep back like that.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Natalia on May 07, 2012, 03:59:50 PM
Thank you, Brian!
Similar to the snowdrop flower Cyclamen - a very interesting, but good and galanthus plitsatus 4 photos - two flower on a stalk. I am very pleased that the selection in the culture repeated his features.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: mark smyth on May 07, 2012, 04:23:01 PM
Two weeks on and I have two more flowers on elwesii Michael Myers Green Tipped. They are small flowers. The photos are not the best due to the very dull day
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on May 07, 2012, 07:22:31 PM
Yes Mark, we had better times ;D.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on May 07, 2012, 07:30:48 PM
Hey Natalia,

fresh pics of fine plicatus in May. And some pics of beautiful G. krasnovii. Thank you so much.
To find these species in the garden now, would be fine. But to wait so long..... :(.
For you it is normal and your pics are fantastic.

But I cannot answer with galanthus pics. Time is over :'(.
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Natalia on May 07, 2012, 08:36:14 PM
Hagen, thank you for the evaluation of photographs! :)
But that is not G. krasnovii - I am convinced of this, in fact, finding a true G. krasnovii  in places where it was confirmed Artyushchenko vegetation and other experts on the flora of the Caucasus.
  Compare photos and see for yourself ...
Title: Re: snowdrops in April 2012
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on May 08, 2012, 05:55:32 AM
Natalia, I love them all. :)

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