Galanthus February 2008

[Diane Whitehead]

It's getting a bit dim for photos, so I'll add just one more -
it looks like an Erythronium.

[Maggi Young]

Ian will like that one, Diane... he thinks that all right-minded flowers WANT to be Erythroniums... in their hearts!

Well done on tracking the wholesaler and checking them out. I expect your knees and backs were a bit "gone" by the time you'd finished, never mind your frozen fingers? 

[Diane Whitehead]

yes, how astute of you, Maggi.  I'd never really taken note
of my knees before.

[Alan_b]

It's getting a bit dim for photos, so I'll add just one more -
it looks like an Erythronium.

That is really nice if it lasts, but sometimes snowdrops go that way if the flower is about to go over.  So don't be too disappointed if you find the outer petals have dropped off next time you look.  On the other hand, if it assumes this form shortly after the flower opens and stays that way for a few weeks then I think you have something really exciting.

[Hans J]

Today found in my garden near a Ficus :

[mark smyth]

Rob your Sophie looks like Armine but could be elwesii. I would need to see the leaves. Hill Poe doesnt look right either. I'll post some photos after I've eaten

[Maggi Young]

Hans, those marks are more yellow than green, aren't they ? Have you other yellow snowdrops around which might have given this sport?

[mark smyth]

Maggi's getting hooked on the white stuff! One more for us!

[Hans J]

Hans, those marks are more yellow than green, aren't they ? Have you other yellow snowdrops around which might have given this sport?

No Maggi , the marks are green .....I grow some yellow nivalis but in other places .....

[Diane Whitehead]

More grocery store elwesii.  I have lots of big olive-green ones,
but here are two little ones that are almost yellow when I look
at them with my eyes, but when I look through the camera, they
look more green.  I don't think this is a matter of adjusting the
white balance, as I don't think that would alter the little viewing
screen.

Ah well, here's the best I can manage today, a gloomy day when
the camera keeps wanting to put on its flash.

The smallest one is yellow-green everywhere: leaves, stem, ovary,
and very pale marks on the inner petals.

[mark smyth]

very nice and a lovely spathe

[mark smyth]

almost 1300 views for 6 days!

Here are the photos from my garden today. Some, I think, have been posted already
 
Alison Hilary
elwesii Comet - it may be surpassed these days but it's a beauty
Magnet - looking great in the slight breeze today
John Gray - what a pedicel!
elwesii Lord Monostictus - special my *&%$. It better be next year!
nivalis Walrus
plicatus Wendy's Gold - not so rich this year
woronowii small pale form

[mark smyth]

un-named but soon to be as far as I know a late, but not this year, short elwesii

[mark smyth]

and lastly

Rosie
Vera Trum

[mark smyth]

Out of interest have you bought the snowdrop book?