Galanthus January 2016

[annew]

Before anyone panics, they will NOT all be named, only a select few.

[Alan_b]

Trouble is that there are so many 'Trym' seedlings now it's getting harder to find one that is distinct from the ones we have already.  The motorway version of South Hayes with the broad green stripe (=wide road) down the middle was the one that stood out the most for me.  Maybe you have two of these in different shades of green?  It's the top right one in both sets of pictures.     

[Maggi Young]

The  free monthly e-magazine, International Rock Gardener IRG 73  for January 2016  is online now :

 A new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue'  is described by Alan Briggs, with photos by Paddy Tobin and a painting by   Irish artist Shevaun Doherty  -
a new species  of Crocus is described by Janis Ruksans  : Crocus duncanii- named to honour  Brian Duncan

and last but not least,  some good, readily available  garden plants are listed to coincide with David Nicholson's  list of Specialist Plant Nurseries

Read the January 2016  IRG  here : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf

[Josh Nelson]

Thanks Maggi - lots of interest in the latest edition!

As a fan of G. plicatus, I would like to get hold of Longraigue at some point too - nice inners, and early unlike the majority of mine

[t00lie]

Get busy with your paintbrush! It's easy to make your own hybrids, and you don't need to wait for the bees! Here are some of the seedlings flowering now:

Lovely all of them Ann --I seem to remember a video somewhere in which you show the ins and outs of hybridizing --sorry I can't remember now whether it was Narcissus or Galanthus . Is that still able to be viewed please ?.

Cheers Dave.

[Cfred72]

Cfred72, 'Trumps' is a form of Galanthus plicatus or a hybrid owing much to plicatus.  And unless it's a trick of the light, I don't think your first photograph shows nivalis either.  But all snowdrops are good, it doesn't matter which species.

Thank you for correcting me, Allan, I'm really new at this.
So Trumps is a G. plicatus. I correct my list ...
Can you tell me to others I have?
I own :
G. 'Big Boy'
G Bill Clark '
G. Flore Pleno
G. woronowii
G reginea Olga 'Tilbarne Jame'
For the first image, are plants that I had brought the wood near my home a few years ago. It's true that looking closer, there are many differences in the tufts reconstituted every time a bulb planted out in isolation.

[Brian Ellis]

A new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue'  is described by Alan Briggs, with photos by Paddy Tobin and a painting by   Irish artist Shevaun Doherty 

...and very delightful it is both the plant and the painting

[Maggi Young]

Lovely all of them Ann --I seem to remember a video somewhere in which you show the ins and outs of hybridizing --sorry I can't remember now whether it was Narcissus or Galanthus . Is that still able to be viewed please ?.

Cheers Dave.

Whole thread here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10158.0   "How to pollinate snowdrops"

 with links to the video on Anne's website and direct link to the video  on YouTube.

[Alan_b]

Can you tell me to others I have?
I own :
G. 'Big Boy'
G Bill Clark '
G. Flore Pleno
G. woronowii
G reginea Olga 'Tilbarne Jame'

woronowii and reginae olgae are species (hence their names are not capitalised).  Flore Pleno is bound to be Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno' although that's really more of a descriptive term than a cultivar name.  'Bill Clark' belongs to the species plicatus and originated at Wandlebury Ring, just a few miles from where I live.  I don't grow or really know 'Big Boy' so I cannot tell you about him.   

[ichristie]

Hello many thanks everyone for all the super pictures at last I have some which might be interesting the bulbs have been under cover so a few in flower the first is a hybrid nivalis x plicatus really Tall  then some recent G plicatus Lady Alice  Little Emma and a new seedling from Green Dragon has a longer ovary cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Brian Ellis]

Can you tell me to others I have?
I own :
G. 'Big Boy'

This one is Galanthus elwesii var elwesii.

[Maggi Young]

Hello many thanks everyone for all the super pictures at last I have some which might be interesting the bulbs have been under cover so a few in flower the first is a hybrid nivalis x plicatus really Tall  then some recent G plicatus Lady Alice  Little Emma and a new seedling from Green Dragon has a longer ovary cheers Ian the Christie kind

 "Under cover"  is certainly the place to be the weather there has been lately -   for  Galanthus and gardeners!
 These 'drops look so pretty,  clean and un-battered by the storms - lovely Ian.

[ichristie]

Thanks Maggi a real challenge to be out today gales were fierce intermingled with snow dread what we might find in the morning, a few more snowdrop pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[chasw]

Eyebright early............................very nice Ian

[t00lie]

Whole thread here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10158.0   "How to pollinate snowdrops"

 with links to the video on Anne's website and direct link to the video  on YouTube.

Thanks for your help Maggi