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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Tony Willis on October 04, 2012, 11:31:38 AM
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My first galanthus are now well in flower all
Galanthus peshmenii
First picture a general view
Second plants from Kastellorizo from a friend
Third plants from seed collected near Kemer
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Superb Tony mine aren't even above the soil here.
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Fantastic Tony,
here all my bulbs are still sleeping under the ground.
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What a treat for an October day Tony ;D ;D
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Some lovely variation there.
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wow those look great! No sign of peshmenii I bought this year. You may remember all of mine died in winter 2010
In February I bought 2 Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Ruby Baker' which I wasnt happy with. They were tiny, possibly twinscales, with only one leaf. I repotted them today and what a surprise I had. I was expecting nothing in the pot but I had two good sized bulbs and two tiny off sets. I should have photographed them. They have started to root so I dont want to know them out again,
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Never heard about a G r-o RUBY BAKER ???
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Hagen it is a green tipped reginae-olgae
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Tony, nice to see your peshmenii doing so well!
No sign of mine yet. I have a single rgo flower in a pot under glass and the first one is just visible in the open garden.
Poul
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On a less successful note, I splashed out on some snowdrops in January including:
‘Blewbury Tart’
‘Jonathan’
‘Mighty Atom’
‘Mrs Macnamara’
‘Rosemary Burnham’.
All were lovely healthy plants.
I followed instructions by the book, gritty compost at the right proportions, a little sharp sand bed for the bulbs to sit on, semi-shaded location, gentle care and lots of positive conversation.
On inspection yesterday the pots were empty. Is that normal? :( :'( :'(
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Definitely not normal Maren. Was there any brown 'flesh' left? All the ones I bought this year are so far still in the pots I them in - bulb/s at the bottom and whatever was to hand on top. Those that I have potted on properly are OK
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excellent looking Peshmenii Tony. Is this sp also fragrant like reginae olgae?
my reginae olgae are not yet showing above ground either...
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On inspection yesterday the pots were empty. Is that normal? :( :'( :'(
I think it is perfectly normal that a snowdrop that perished over the summer leaves very little trace. In my case I believe they mostly get eaten.
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Hmmm, I can't imagine they were eaten. My squirrels eat the dactylorhiza tubers and plant nuts in the pots, but you can see the disturbance. In the snowdrop pots, the compost was undisturbed, the sharp grit layer on top intact, no trace of any plant, bulb or root in the pots, as if there had never been anything. :'(
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I did experience the same, Maren.
When I checked about 100 snowdrops, 3 or 4 were gone. Nothing in the basket that proved there had been bulbs in it. And another 4 or 5 had a larva inside. Disgusting.
Lina.
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The first Galanthus Reginae Olgae in my garden
Poul
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Repotting continues here and yesterday I found two pots with nothing inside and despite spraying with an insecticide two Narcissus fly grubs. One had eaten it's bulb and had started eating in to another.
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On a less successful note, I splashed out on some snowdrops in January including:
‘Blewbury Tart’
‘Jonathan’
‘Mighty Atom’
‘Mrs Macnamara’
‘Rosemary Burnham’.
All were lovely healthy plants.
I followed instructions by the book, gritty compost at the right proportions, a little sharp sand bed for the bulbs to sit on, semi-shaded location, gentle care and lots of positive conversation.
On inspection yesterday the pots were empty. Is that normal? :( :'( :'(
Were the pots left uncovered and open to the rain all through the summer?
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Galanthus reginae-olgae in my garden
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How wonderful, Franz. They will not grow in the open garden here at all but I have started growing a few in pots in the glasshouse and may continue to do so as they give interest so early in the season.
Paddy
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I enjoy the pic of your lovely Galanthus, sehr hübsch anzusehen, Franz.
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Sorry, Maren, I meant eaten by insects; in my case Swift Moth larvae. I sometimes find these instead of the snowdrops but equally well they could have pupated into moths and flown off.
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Martin,
they were in a rain shadow position and in a shady, well sheltered place on a table against a fence. Maybe they got too dry during the summer? I did water occasionally.
A friend tells me they might have frozen to death. But even then, I would have expected to find some organic debris.
I'm puzzled but in future I think I'll spend my money on things I know how to grow successfully. It was heartbreaking, even throwing away the labels hurt. :'( :'( :'(
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Maren, if the snowdrops were recently potted, bought in the green, and were then frozen solid for a long period in the hard freezes of last winter then the roots and bulbs may well have been killed but had enough residual strength to keep the leaves going for a while, especially in cool weather. At that time if year the bulbs would have been very flaccid with virtually no swollen bulb scales, almost just a basal plate and leaves with quite papery remains of the previous year's scales. So there wouldn't have been much to rot, and I can imagine they may well have rotted away without trace over the following spring and summer.
I'm repotting snowdrops at the moment and will see if I have spares to replace at least one or two of the bulbs you lost. Will be in touch.
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A few weeks later than last year but at last there they are ... the season has also started here in Belgium ! Later than previous years caused by the long dry period during the summer months until the end of September. But better late than never ! A few pictures of G. reg.-olg. ssp. reg.-olg. Other G. reginae-olgae are above the ground as well, for instance 'Cambridge'. G. reginae-olgae species and varieties are doing well in our sandy soils and have no problems with the cold winters (last year till -20° C).
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Franz & Freddie - what lovely regina olgae. I love the way they have the naked stems and no leaves when they emerge. I have tried 3 times to grow them and again this year they have not come up. I may try once more.
Maren - I know how disappointing it is when you lose expensive bulbs like that. Your post made me go and check my lattice pots. I made a temporary bed for them over the summer months under 2 conifers which have had all the lower branches removed as they were dead. This allowed for plenty of light to come in but not much rain.
I dug in loads of grit and made trenches lined with grit. The bulbs were planted in a gritty mix, on a bed of sand then surrounded with sharp grit and topped with my gritty soil mix. Yesterday and today I lifted 115 lattice pots. My finds were varied. Many had roots coming through the pots, loads had diminished bulbs ie. 4 planted and only 1 left. Some were multi- nosed huge bulbs and all I had left was a tiny offset.
Then I completely lost 12 pots. No larvae and in most cases no signs of a bulb at all. They just rotted away. My saddest loss was Ruby Baker. These are my losses:-
Ruby Baker - very very sad :'(
Virescens x 4 bulbs - wanted for a long time
Greenish x 2 bulbs - wanted for a long time
Ray Cobb - very sad :'(
The Linns x 4 bulbs
Lapwing x 2 huge bulbs (my second attempt with this one)
Dreycott Greentips x 3
regina olgae ssp. vernalis
Angelique - for the second time
Hedgehog x 4
Fieldgate Superb
Jade - just one tiny weeny piece left from a huge multi nosed bulb.... :'(
I am looking at over £200 to replace them and I am gutted. As this area seems not to attract Narcissus Fly so much being shaded I am going to direct plant small bulbs in future. I am sure they will survive better as I am finding it difficult to get the 'mix' right in lattice pots.
Will post photos of the area later
Here we go again ???
Jennie
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Here are photos of the area where I sunk all the lattice pots. I did give them a very slight spray with the hosepipe in summer as I was scared they would dry out. All the surrounding woodland plants needed a water from time to time as well.
It would be impossible to keep lattice pots dry during summer if they were sunk anywhere in the garden - so why does this happen. Surely if everyone lost 10% of their expensive bulbs every summer it would not be worth using the pots?
Jennie
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Kentish Lass it's too late in the year to be lifting lattice pots out of the ground. All the roots you break will not regrow.
My 3 Ron Ginns have broken down in to 15 small bulbs
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Thanks for telling me Mark. I won't touch no more. To be honest the ones with roots through the pots were few and far between. Many of my snowdrops in lattice pots do not even have roots yet.....hope that's not another bad sign.
I will bed them all back in and leave them alone now - my panic got the better of me. I think by checking the pots now I have prevented any further damage to small bulbs that may have rotted.
Jennie
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Some growers may not like to admit it, but I think everybody loses a certain number of snowdrops each year. If you have established a decent clump then it's virtually impossible to tell unless the whole clump goes. But if you have caught the white fever and are buying expensive snowdrops in ones and twos then it's very obvious indeed.
Snowdrops fall prey to diseases like stagonospora and botrytis, insect pests like narcissus fly and swift moth larvae and might be moved if not eaten by animals digging around. They don't like to be too wet in summer, although in winter it seems they can cope.
I'm sure if you studied snowdrops in the wild you would find a balance between a high rate of propagation and a high rate of attrition. What we are doing, taking single bulbs of new cultivars propagated by twin-scaling that are not even established as garden-worthy and expecting all our snowdrops to live, flies in the face of nature.
And the best place to plant snowdrops is close to other well-established snowdrops so you know the conditions are right. But make sure the new snowdrops are disease-free before you do. I do this by growing snowdrops in large pots (3 litre, I think) and this works fairly well, although I lost one or two in the really cold spells of the last two years, over and above from the general attrition that everyone suffers
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I couldn't agree more with what Alan says Jennie, I dug a 'Rodmarton' clump up a month or so as a friend wanted one, I discovered a lovely clump with one in the middle looking decidedly gray and mushy. I hawked it out and renewed the soil - and of course planted some in a pot for her. I think if she had not asked for it I would have lost most of the clump this autumn - but the important point is that if that had happened and I had left it undisturbed, in another few years any bit of bulb that was left would have renewed itself to build up the clump again.
I think that you are doing all the right things although, as Mark says, you don't want to break any roots at this time of year as they will not re-grow being simple roots with the growth point at the tip - once broken off that's the end of that root for this year. This is the time of year when they appreciate some water as they are beginning their growth, if it doesn't rain over a ten day period I tend to give them a quick watering to keep them damp.
Although it is devestating to lose the most precious bulbs, I do have a 'glass half full' attitude, in that 90% are doing well. I do wonder how many of those losses were new bulbs to you this year. The beginning of the year was dreadful and lots of bulbs were frozen in their pots at some time, whether before sale, in transit or after sale. My own thoughts are that this did not do them any good whatsoever and could account for some losses. The bulb would exhaust itself coming to flower and not be able to renew itself for this year if the roots were damaged. Last year I lost count of the number of bulbs that I sent to people who had severe losses, I was pleased to do so as mine were doing alright. As you say 'Here we go again" - the spring is a time of great trepidation to see which ones have made it and which need investigation - only relieved by the flowering of the favourites ;)
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A lot of people might not agree with me but i do NOT like placing my snowdrops on a bed of sharp sand,the bulbs have done it to in the past have rotted because the sand holds onto to much wet on the base plate and not enough air spaces,a good open mix i find a lot better.
One of my favourite snowdrop gurus Cliff Curtis,the most approachable chap in the world and sooo sharing of his knowlegde keeps telling me to chip David,if you want to keep these modern drops going always chip.This is something i will be rolling out in spades next season end.
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Jennie,
we all loose a lot of bulbs every year.
I try do give galanthus the conditions of their natural habitats. I never saw good populations in a forest of conifers. But they like Corylus avellana, Carpinus betulus and Platanus. I believe there is a kind of symbiose between these plants. The conifers are no friends of our snowdrops.
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Martin, thank you for your kind thoughts, but I have decided not to grow any more. I have plenty of other fish to fry, so will concentrate on my pleiones and cypripediums. One can get carried away by infectious enthusiasm, especially on this forum. But I am quite prepared to acknowledge my limitations.
Good luck with yours, I shall continue enjoying them by looking at your pictures. :) :) :)
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Maren / Jennie / Alan / Brian
I too have no problem losing bulbs and had a huge stack of labels to prove it. (I have not tallied up the $ loss)
You're not alone as I've lost these too - Virescens, & Greenish; Angelique for the second time - ditto.
Yamanlar, Heffalump (getting it going again), John Gray (getting it going again), Mighty Atom (getting it going again), Sir Herbert, Cordelia (getting it going again), S. Arnott (getting it going again) give me great problems too. This is the first year I've had Barbara's Double survive!
Alan - I wish I had the room for 3L pots, I'm forced to go with 3 inch deeps. Upon repotting this past August increases are at 15% last year and losses are the lowest ever, I eliminated peat and bark entirely from my mixes and replaced these with rotted and unrotted shredded oak leaves. (I'm pointing the finger squarely at peat as the stag culprit.) That along with a good fungicide drench at leaf emergence seems to have stopped the Stag problem ... or was it that garlic concoction? While the garlic looked promising on Hippeastrums the red blotch returned with a vengeance, thankfully they are 15km from the Galanthus.
Two years ago I also sowed fall rye seed in all the Galanthus pots just as the leaves were drying down and watering ceased. What was surprising is there still was a bit of moist soil at the bottom of some pots in August. I will never try that again as the rye continued sprouting through last winter and like a fool I even managed to sowed rye seed in my Galanthus seed pots so it was chore getting the stuff out without disrupting sprouting seeds. And the seeds are even under some tunics and reappearing! This past May I sowed sunflower seed instead and they dried the pots out in short order and then promptly dried up and withered. That said a few pots had a bit of moisture in the mix at the bottom of the pots in August.
No sign of Cambridge outdoors yet though we've had enough rain (a foot in August) to jump start the r-o's.
johnw - sunny and a chilly 6c, a close brush with frost last night, the basils survived.
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Thanks to everyone for your comments re. losses. I am not a gambler but it seems you need a gambling mentality to grow snowdrops! However I do tend to live life on the edge so maybe that is why I continue to grow snowdrops despite how difficult they are to succeed with. ???
Alan - you are right about the clumps not revealing whether there are losses. I dug a clump of N. Viridapicis to give to friends and so many had Narcissus Fly but I doubt I would have noticed as the clump is so big. Most of the bulbs I lost were on the small side so it never took much wet to rot them. In future I am planting little ones into the ground in a shady area.
Hagen - I agree with you that conifers are not a good spot for snowdrops and I would never normally put them under a conifer. It is only meant to be a very 'temporary' place for them in the shade until I make a few more beds in the woodland under deciduous trees. Our woodland is huge but needs lots and lots of work as it is a mass of brambles and nettles. I have raised the crowns very high on other conifers and snowdrops have thrived underneath them - but only cheap and cheerful ones that I did not mind risking.
So far in the woodland area I have had no incidents of Narcissus Fly whereas in the main garden it is rife.
Found 2 more losses today - a pot of 4 Irish Green :'( - my second attemp and a potful of Washfield Warham which luckily I have a second pot of. Now I just have to wait and see which ones don't come up from older plantings in lattice pots. I am glad I found the losses early though so I won't be gazing at the pots waiting for the green tips to poke through :)
Brian - you are correct - they were all new ones. However - Gloria is alive and well - yippee
Jennie
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A lot of people might not agree with me but i do NOT like placing my snowdrops on a bed of sharp sand,the bulbs have done it to in the past have rotted because the sand holds onto to much wet on the base plate and not enough air spaces,a good open mix i find a lot better.
Oh No! I have put mine on a bed of sharp sand although I have added grit too. Now that I think about it the sand does get wet and I will not be using it again. That will give me something else to worry about now :) I was using sharp sand and grit mixed as it was all I could buy from the local garden centre.
Jennie
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My snowdrops, and other bulbs, in pots do well following Ian Young's formula - a mix of sharp sand, grit, leaf mould and bone meal
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Brian - you are correct - they were all new ones. However - Gloria is alive and well - yippee
Phew I didn't like to ask ;D
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Phew I didn't like to ask ;D
I must admit I held my breath as I knocked out the pot and there was the bulb looking much bigger and starting to root. It's really funny how there was such mixed results as they all had the same soil mix, the same position in the bed and the same amount of moisture. As you have all said - everyone gets losses as it is the nature of the beast. Just wish it was not all the most expensive ones ???
I have put the labels away and will replace them as and when I can......and move on. See I am learning to cope better!!
John W - thanks for sharing your losses and glad to hear things are improving with your new mix. That Rye seed experiment sounds a nightmare.
Mark - does that Ian Young mix have any soil added to it? I have been adding leaf mould to plantings in the ground but don't have much thats ready - it takes years to break down into a soil like consistency. Can you buy it?
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I have asked the question about buying leaf mould before. The answer, I'm afraid, is no - you cannot buy it.
Except that is, Brian was kind enough to tell me that it is for sale in limited quantities at Fairhaven Water Garden in Norfolk. I went there last year and brought about 8 sacks home which have contributed to a new raised bulb bed.
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Is it for sale at Fairhaven just at specific times of the year or all year round please?
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Thanks to everyone for your comments re. losses. I am not a gambler but it seems you need a gambling mentality to grow snowdrops!
I think you need the sort of mentality where failure doesn't put you off but spurs you on to try harder. Perhaps that's the same mentality as that of a compulsive gambler? If so, stick to snowdrops as you will lose money far less rapidly!
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does that Ian Young mix have any soil added to it? I have been adding leaf mould to plantings in the ground but don't have much thats ready - it takes years to break down into a soil like consistency. Can you buy it?
The Young mix has no soil in it. Shredded leaves can be used for the mix after only a few months.
Potting mix is two parts gravel, two parts sand and one part leaf mould.(Previously we used two parts loam in stead of the sand but we ran out of loam!)
See the recipe here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2007/260607/log.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2007/260607/log.html)
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Seen yesterday at the AGS Show at Ponteland (Newcastle) - a potful of Tilebarn Jamie, some in flower and others coming through. Checked my pot when I got home - no sign yet.
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The Young mix has no soil in it. Shredded leaves can be used for the mix after only a few months.
Potting mix is two parts gravel, two parts sand and one part leaf mould.(Previously we used two parts loam in stead of the sand but we ran out of loam!)
See the recipe here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2007/260607/log.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2007/260607/log.html)
Thanks Maggie - will keep that recipe and give it a go
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My local builders yard now stocks rock dust
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Galanthus snogerupii is making an appearance already, does look like a nasty slug has eaten one of the scapes :'(
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Thanks Maggie - will keep that recipe and give it a go
I have only just spotted the illustrated link to Ians bulb log. That is a very gritty mix - it looks as if I was adding nowhere near enough grit to my potted mix. Shredding the leaves before putting on the leaf mould heap......why didn't I think of that. No wonder it is taking centuries to rot down. I must get some of the mix from the bottom before new leaves are put on top.
Have now finally found out how to access all Ians bulb logs and will be very busy for the entire winter having a good read :) Just read how to make a cement trough - could be my next project!
Jennie
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Galanthus reginae olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie' in flower, pot-grown in the glasshouse
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I have only just spotted the illustrated link to Ians bulb log. That is a very gritty mix - it looks as if I was adding nowhere near enough grit to my potted mix.
I imagine the amount of grit you need depends a good deal on the amount of rainfall you get. Cambridgeshire, where I live, is very dry and I'm sure there is much more danger of pots getting too dry in summer than getting too wet. Just because Ian's recipe works for him where he lives doesn't necessarily mean it will work for someone else in another location. But you could use Ian's recipe as a good starting-point for experimentation.
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My reginae olgae start to grow - looks like a miniature earthquake!
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I thought i had no early flowering snowdrops this year. But to my surprise some reginae olgae have popped through!
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I imagine the amount of grit you need depends a good deal on the amount of rainfall you get. Cambridgeshire, where I live, is very dry and I'm sure there is much more danger of pots getting too dry in summer than getting too wet. Just because Ian's recipe works for him where he lives doesn't necessarily mean it will work for someone else in another location. But you could use Ian's recipe as a good starting-point for experimentation.
Exactly - Ian always says that "this is what works HERE, for us" Thought about one's own local conditions etc and experimentation are always indicated.
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Gunter Waldorf's book, "Snowdrops", the English edition, has arrived in the post. I think it is a very nice addition to snowdrop literature, an excellent introduction to the beginner yet with much of interest for the enthusiast. It has a good selection of the snowdrops we all hold in high regard, those worth their place in any collection and also an extensive selection of the very rare.
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three different forms of Galanthus peshmenii,it is very variable.
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Today we had 22 °c and some Gal. opened the flowers.
Gal. peshmennii in pots in the greenhouse and Gal. r.o.in the garden.
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here are the twwo other pics.
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Tony,
your G. peshmenii look very nice. With the two of mine we have
5 different types of flowers.
Next time I hope to be better with posting pics.
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Hi Uli,
Nice to meet you here.
Interesting variability in your Galanthus peshmenii!
Gerd
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That middle one looks quite special Tony.
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Would you like an autumn poc also?
Here it is.
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reginae-olgae ex Germany left and reginae-olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie' right. Found on a dark shelf in the barn on the weekend and dry as a bone. More elsewhere but not located today. No signs yet of the ones in the ground.
johnw
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John are you sure you have them the right way round? I think the twin scaped plant is Jamie
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Would you like an autumn poc also?
Here it is.
Very nice Hagen 8)
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Thats a nice looking plant Hagen ;D
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Great one, Hagen.
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Martin, Emma, Tobin,
yes it is a very nice one.
But younger bulbs are not exact poculiforme. You can see it, if you look exactly.
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Would you like an autumn poc also?
I see Hagen's message at the news of forum and think to myself that's must be something special!
And yes it's very special! Great poc Hagen! :)
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John are you sure you have them the right way round? I think the twin scaped plant is Jamie
Mark - The one in the righthand pot - the twin scaped one - is labelled Tilebarn Jamie. The one in the pot to the left of it is the German one. You may have your lefts and rights backward. :P
Hagen - You do manage to give us sleepless nights so often.
johnw
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oops so I do. I didnt notice the one on the left.
Good to see my reginae-olgaes are now above ground
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Can anyone remember if Joe's r-o 'Ruby Baker' is autumn or spring flowering?
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I thought it was Autumn flowering Mark, I could of course, be wrong ;)
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Mark, I got "Ruby Baker" from Ruby last year. It has a lot of gracilis blood inside.
May be, there is also a G r-o under this name outside.
Sorry Mark, I haven`t read your total message. You spoke about a G r-o.
I mean it is no good idea to give the exact same name two times. And the spring RUBY BAKER was the first named plant.
A spring flowering G r-o with green tips is no exceptional flower.
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Some terrific snowdrops ! Very fine and good green tipps on your peshmenii, Uli!
Hagen is your fantastic poc peshmenii or reginae- olgae?
Here first reginae-olgae will flower soon, nothing to see of the other species - something strange one waits impatiently for this tiny white flowers as there are so many other more colourful plants, but it also happens to me... ::) ;)
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I grow my r-o in a frame at ground level (peshmenii in the greenhouse) and thought they should be through by now. Everyone has been eaten of level with the topdressing by slugs!!
I suppose it will give the bulbs chance to build up for next year.
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Yes, this autumn has been too mild and damp and I expect slugs will be a big problem until we get some cold weather.
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My first in-the-ground snowdrops are in flower; Autumn Beauty, Remember Remember and rizehensis "Early to Rize". Barnes, Hollis, Mrs Macnamara and Peter Gatehouse yet to show.
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No sign of my Barnes, Mrs McN or Peter Gatehouse either
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I have noses through of Fly Fishing and Louise Ann Bromley in the tunnel
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My neighbour/chef/onsite handy man has managed to trample my snowdrop beds >:( >:( >:( :'( :'( :'( I think they will be okay :-\
My first Galanthus reginae-olgae seedling is just peeping through the trodden earth , first year its flowered as well :'(
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Some Galanthus Reg-Olga from me,these were from a very nice friend.
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/davep1970/010-10.jpg)
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My neighbour/chef/onsite handy man has managed to trample my snowdrop beds >:( >:( >:( :'( :'( :'( I think they will be okay :-\
My first Galanthus reginae-olgae seedling is just peeping through the trodden earth , first year its flowered as well :'(
He wouldn't so happy if his bulbs got squashed! ::)
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he has no concept of the living world beneath his feet ! His garden consists of shrubs he can hack at and a hanging basket he cares for diligently .
hes an >:( chef lol
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My favourite time of year now for Galanthus with many G.peshmenii and G.reginae-olgae in flower.
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David
very nice they look lovely.
Melvyn my Eleni is not through the ground yet but Sofia is almost in flower.
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David
very nice they look lovely.
Melvyn my Eleni is not through the ground yet buy Sofia is almost in flower.
Tony they have come from good stock. ;)
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Nice snowdrops Melvyn.
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Melvyn,
Lovely to see them looking so well at this early time of the year, something which doesn't happen in my garden.
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Yes Melvyn, your drops look very happy.
SOFIA rings well also here ;)
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The noses of reginae-olgae 'Cambridge' have just now surfaced here. It is so strange they have taken so long as the weather was perfect for a much earlier emergence - long warm dry summer, heavy rains - 12" - that thoroughly soaked the soil by the third week of September with a tad of hand watering a week before the rains started. So a month later they appear and maybe they will flower earlier than last year, that was just before Xmas 2011.
johnw.
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Mrs Macnamara and Zwanenburg now well through in open soil.
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After a cold night the tree in front of our house lost nearly all leaves. After collecting some leaves I found the G. elwesii ssp. monostictus undamaged. They now appear at different places in the garden.
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Hello,
I'm new to this forum, far from being collector but more and more intrigued by snowdrop forms. I received these 2 years ago from a fellow member of our local perennial society as G. peshmenii, but am not absolutely sure as they already showed some leaf tips when starting to flower. Leaves are entirely glaucous, without the reginae-olgae middle stripes. The pictures are from 2 weeks ago, now there is only a last one flowering.
Any way I liked the one with the pagoda form which is stable in this one bulb, although the green tips appeared this year for the first time.
Elwesii hiemalis and reginae-olgae (in the open garden) still don't show any signs of life - r.o. often was in bloom together with the last Cyclamen hederifolium which are almost over now. Hope they survived
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Hallo Martin,
ein herzliches Willkommen im weltbesten Galanthus-Forum.
Hier lernste Englisch ;D
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Hallo Martin! Best wishes for the new snowdrop season. Sorry I cannot help with ideas about the species.
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Welcome to the forum Martin. :)
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Hallo Martin, welcome to the forum, we are happy to have one more
snowdrop enthusiast from Germany.
Uli
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Thanks everybody for the warm welcome, Danke - any idea about the peshmenii identity? - seems it's very variable as I see in the previous posts.