Galanthus in February 2014

[Hagen Engelmann]

Top green balloon, Brian

[Alan_b]

Jo - Would you kindly brief us on the background of these plicati? 

Last year, I actually looked back into the history of 'Wind Turbine' to refresh my memory.  Jo told us about this snowdrop on the forum several years ago, in 2009 maybe?  But for its first year of appearance here it did not have a name.  I tried and failed to find a past post from Jo where she named it.

Trympostor is a recent offering from Avon Bulbs.  I pointed out to Alan Street that I had already christened a bulb you described as 'Trym Imposter' as 'Trymposter' on the forum but he said his is spelled differently.         

[snowdropcollector]

Brian, what kind of comments was he expecting.....It is a great looking snowdrop, the colour and shape are wonderful !! 
Congratulations with this find !!

[snowdropcollector]

Richard, very sorry to hear about the flooding.  . Hope all your plants will be ok, and that the weather will clear with you...

[snowdropcollector]

Some pictures from last weekend when the weather was very nice overhere.

Ailwyn - one of the best doubles to my opinion
Cressida
David Baker - one of Brian's litter..... ...with green markings
Elw Joy Cozens - still a little pink to see
Elw Rosemary Burnham - I finally have it growing

[Brian Ellis]

Brian, what kind of comments was he expecting.....It is a great looking snowdrop, the colour and shape are wonderful !! 
Congratulations with this find !!

Well hopefully it will persist as some seedlings from last year have not done so I am told.  I think it ought to be chipped.

[snowdropcollector]

A few more............

Elw Sweet Alice - find from Valentin Wijnen
Elw Two Eyes - from Glen Chantry
Lucas William - a find from Gert Geensen overhere in The Netherlands
Greenfinch
Lucas William

[snowdropcollector]

Brian, I agree with you and think best thing to do is chipping it. Please do not loose it

[snowdropcollector]

And a few more pictures......

Modern Art
Niv Sandersii Elles Dream - coming up
Plicatus Castle Group - from Ian Christie with great large puckered flowers
Vertigo
Walrus

[Jo]

Jo - Would you kindly brief us on the background of these plicati?  Especially of the one on the left.  Have I missed something earth-shattering in the past?

johnw

Hi John,  Mark's right,  bees can so fickle and visit any old snowdrop.  They don't know what we really really want.  The drop on the left is Southayes, middle is Wind Turbine and right is Trumps.  I want a combination of all three,  is that a menage a trois  ?  Don't think it works that way.

Trymposter bulks up like mad, dare I say like Sharlockii,  but is diminutive in stature so I just want its reproduction capacity, menage a quatre 

[Jo]

Hi Alan,  I don't remember when I first called the snowdrop Wind Turbine but certainly it was first published by Matt Bishop in The Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip yearbook, 2011.   There he is talking about the inverse poculiforms and comments that W. T. is the only other occurence of an I. P.  unconnected to Trym.  It's a subspecies byzantinus rather than subsp. plicatus.

[Brian Ellis]

Brian, I agree with you and think best thing to do is chipping it. Please do not loose it

It's not mine Richard, but I will pass the message on.  Your 'Lucas William' is very pretty.

[mark smyth]

I think I'm losing it or suffering badly from snow(drop) blindness because I've been off for the last two weeks.

I said my Ecusson had bulked to five. Doh, I was looking at Excelsis!! I didn't even notice the lack of yellow until just now

I said my Comets were all green tipped this year. Doh again! I was looking at elwesii Green Tip

I took a calculator in to the garden the other day to do come math/s. Bad move.

[Alan_b]

Cressida

Cressida, Richard?!?  That's one of mine!  I sent some to a collector in Belgium in 2008 but they have not escaped from my garden again - until today, by a strange coincidence.  I had no idea they were in circulation.  Please tell me more.   

[snowdropcollector]

Alan, your Cressida is not in circulation as far as I know. I grow it here as a back up for the Belgium collector   .
It grows well, and it is a great double. Would be a waste when Cressida would get lost.
Think this should be done with lot more of snowdrops, specially new cultivars. When I think I have found something interesting, I share
bulbs with some other collectors I know well. If I lose it, they still have it  .