Galanthus in January 2014

[Anthonyh]

Rosemary Burnham today... almost warm enough for it to open...

Fly fishing is just opening... no sign of green tips here yet 

The Rodmarton Regulus looks very nice- and huge!

[uvularia]

Rosemary Burnham today... almost warm enough for it to open...

Fly fishing is just opening... no sign of green tips here yet 

The Rodmarton Regulus looks very nice- and huge!

These must be inside? Or has Shropshire become the warmest part of the UK?

[Roma]

This was a surprise when I spotted these leaves
Galanthus elwesii 'Handel'
I was given 3 bulbs in 2009 in exchange for some bulbs of G. corcyrensis.  They flowered in late February 2010 and may have produced a few feeble leaves in 2011 but have not appeared since.  I was most embarrassed to have lost them so am very pleased they were just resting .  No sign of flowers this year but hopefully they have decided to live after all.

[Roma]

This Galanthus elwesii came from the local Garden Centre a few years ago.  I had two pots with three bulbs in each.  This seems to be the toughest, surviving two years in the original pot.  Some of the others are still alive but not flowering.  I must plant them out.  Apart from the single green mark the thing I like about it is the round ovary.  My other elwesiis all have elongated ovaries.

[freddyvl]

Also in Belgium starts due to the mild weather the snowdrop season rapidly:
- G. reg.-olg. ssp. reg.-olg ‘Christine’:  Found by Chr. Grey-Wilson in his mother’s garden and named for his wife. This robust cultivar flowers between the late ssp. reginae-olgae’s and the earliest ssp. vernalisvarieties;
- G. ‘Ailwyn’:  This ‘perfect’ double snowdrop was found by the late Richard Nutt at Anglesey Abbey and named after Lord Fairhaven (Ailwyn Henry Georges Broughton). It is said that G. ‘Lady Fairhaven’ is a seasonal variation of G. Ailwyn;
- G. reg.-olg. ssp. vernalis ‘Amigo’:  An elegant selection from southern Italy with large flowers with pointed petals, despite know for its slow increase in our garden a good doer. Selected and named by Koen van Poucke (Belgium);
- G. elw. Hiemalis Group ‘Nutt’s Early’:  This fine plant was given out to guests by the late Richard Nutt, without a name, at one of his famous snowdrop lunches. Subsequently it became known amongst the friends as G. elw. H. Gr. ‘Nutt’s Early’;
and finally a general view

[Maggi Young]

'Amigo' is an exceptionally elegant shape, Freddy, but your plants  all look very good- are you not afraid that  the cold weather will come to damage them ? 
The frost here tonight is bad - I am glad that we do not have too many flowers out yet!

[Lina Hesseling]

Hi, Freddy. Thank you for these lovely pictures and all the information. I already hoped, you would continue this 'tradition'.

Lina.

[uvularia]

Freddy, I have to say that is a stunning clump of  'Amigo'.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Fine clumps, Freddy!
Thank you also for the "Overzicht".
Galanthus together with Jasminum nudiflorum and Viburnum fragrans - I would say, this is an early spring time picture.
But it is only January.

This year I will not go to UK and Gala.
So nobody will bring frost and snow from east to west!

[emma T]

Poop , didn't get the job . Person they offered it to turned it down . Apparently I'm an excellent candidate but not quite what they are looking for 

They are now going to re-advertise it and start all over again 

[johnralphcarpenter]

"If at first you don't succeed...."

[Anthonyh]

Sorry to hear that Emma... I hope something else comes around very soon. :-(

Paul- it's pot grown, plunged in a 6x4 frame with a polythene lid and wind net sides- my snowdrops are all over the place timing wise!

[Martin Baxendale]

Emma, I already posted this on facebook in reply to your comments there and I'm saying it again here in case you miss it there, and to have a second bite at urging you to try again:

I wonder if "not quite what they were looking for" means "not a man"?

They're not allowed, because of anti-sexism legislation, to advertise for a man, but unfortunately many people still do think that some jobs are more suited to a man than a woman (or they'd just prefer a man because they feel that they'd get on better with a man than a woman).

 I would urge you to re-apply on principle, just in case this is what has happened. And also because you know you personally can do the job.

I don't suppose you know if the selected candidate who turned it down was a man?

[emma T]

He was a man

[Martin Baxendale]

Apply again. And you still have the "90% chance" that you were told you had of still being kept on in your current position.