Galanthus in March 2013

[mark smyth]

Little Angie is a beauty

[Hagen Engelmann]

Here is a fine poculiforme: HOLO-GLOB
We never saw a green mark, all time perfect.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Two lovely but very different sisters:
HOLO-GRAMM and HOLO-GLOB

[Maggi Young]

Two lovely but very different sisters:
HOLO-GRAMM and HOLO-GLOB

Perfect!!

[Hagen Engelmann]

a normal, but full white plant. I don`t know if it is worth to name.

[Hagen Engelmann]

In my eyes the ScottishCHATTON is a very good addition to the yellows. The color is bright yellow, top!!
Thank you Ian. I love this plant

[Hagen Engelmann]

The drops of ILSE BILSE.
This year a perfect flower season.

[MR GRUMPY]

Hagen
         I Haven't recovered from seeing your last photo's
       
         Those are amazing!!!!

         

[Martin Baxendale]

Very nice photos, John and Hagen.

Hagen, those pocs are lovely.

[Brian Ellis]

Stunning 'Ilse Bilse' Hagen, as you know I love to see the inners through the claws.  All your snowdrops are looking good.  Thank you for keeping our snowdrop season so exciting

[Paddy Tobin]

Fabulous selection, as ever, Hagen.

[ian mcenery]

For those into the green. G Cowhouse Green

[Lina Hesseling]

Hagen, your snowdrops are magnificent. I can look at them again and again.

I am not very fond of the yellows, but your G. 'Das Gelbe vom Ei' is very nice.

Lina.

[Tim Ingram]

Those are just astonishing and exciting plants, especially for someone like me who is still only beginning to take in the full variation there is in snowdrops. Are these the result of controlled breeding Hagen, or from seedlings occurring within the garden (though the two are not so very different)? The poculiforms must be every bit the equal of E. A. Bowles. Very lovely.

These few pictures are a great contrast but are interesting because they derive from wild collections made by Martyn Rix. They are growing in Elizabeth Cairn's garden near Maidstone, and show what an incredible foliage plant elwesii can be; I know that is nothing new but I've never seen forms with such broad and soft arching leaves. The last picture is a bit of a mystery - is it likely to be a form of reginae-olgae subsp. vernalis? Those intensely glaucous leaves really stand out.

Elizabeth is also collecting many of the more striking of named varieties, but the garden is very well suited to snowdrops, especially those that like to be really dried out in summer, and these big clumps of elwesii are quite a sight.

[Rob]

The last picture is a bit of a mystery - is it likely to be a form of reginae-olgae subsp. vernalis? Those intensely glaucous leaves really stand out.

Do reginae-olgae have more of a stripe, I would guess a good nivalis, hopefully an expert will give an opinion.

I like Hagens exciting new plants, but it is also good to see established clumps in the garden.