Galanthus April 2016

[annew]

I have purchased a couple more coldframes but am still working out a way of attaching fine mesh.  I saw very fine mesh wire on ebay but still confused on how to attach to the metal on a coldframe.  I have also purchased fine mesh cloches & pop up tents galore for when I replant into uninfected soil.......not sure where yet!

You can get rigid uPVC strips or aluminium strips from the DIY centre - if you drill small holes along you could sandwich the netting between this and the frame metal using rivets. I love rivets 

[ashley]

What?  Minions and rivets?
Clearly you are a woman of eclectic tastes Anne

[Brian Ellis]

Clearly the minions are part-time rivetters

[annew]

If only..

[annew]

The last to flower here outside - Fieldgate Superb.

[Josh Nelson]

One of the last of mine this year - petals lengthening and ahead of where it was last year around this time as shown in its more typical shuttlecock shape in the second photo.  A distinctively large and rounded receptacle on this plicatus selection.

[kentish_lass]

Anne - I had never heard of a rivet before!  Just been watching a You Tube video on them....quite amazing.  Now I have to search through my dads tools to see if he has a rivet gun   Thanks for that idea - I can see you are a dab hand at DIY while I am absolutely useless.

Josh - lovely plicatus.  I really like the big round seed heads too.

Thanks for the advice on 1 yr old chips Brian - I will get there in the end   

[johnw]

Don't throw those old seed pots out.  Inspecting today I find Pilous' 2012 lagodechianus and my own 'Wendy's Gold' op from 2012 sprouting well.  And I did not let them dry out!  Now the unsprouted pots will be keep piling up....

johnw

[Janis Ruksans]

I'm not "galanthophile", but this one I want to show here
Crocus nivalis from Eastern Carpathians in W Ukraine - excellent "viridapicis" - collected lasst spring.

[Brian Ellis]

Excellent indeed Janis, the most beautifully shaped outer petals and fine mark.

[fermi de Sousa]

Don't throw those old seed pots out.  Inspecting today I find Pilous' 2012 lagodechianus and my own 'Wendy's Gold' op from 2012 sprouting well.  And I did not let them dry out!  Now the unsprouted pots will be keep piling up....

johnw

Thanks, John,
I'll keep an eye on a pot of G. Wendy's Gold sown in 2013!(but it hasn't been kept moist)
cheers
fermi

[Leena]

Don't throw those old seed pots out.  Inspecting today I find Pilous' 2012 lagodechianus and my own 'Wendy's Gold' op from 2012 sprouting well.  And I did not let them dry out!  Now the unsprouted pots will be keep piling up....

Thank you John for this!
I sowed some seeds from my own yellow snowdrops last summer, they were fresh when sown, and I sowed at the same time some Corydalis seeds which germinated two weeks ago, so I wouldn't think that the pots next to each other would have dried out because Corydalis germinated, but snowdrops have not germinated yet. I've been a bit worried already, but I will have to be patient.

[Leena]

We have had sunny days and cold nights again, last night was -5C, snowdrops are at their best now.
'Lord Lieutenant'
'Ophelia'
'Bill Clark', the bigger clump in the background is 'Mrs Macnamara', it is a very good snowdrop with long flowering period
'Green Light', and last a close up of the flower. The green in the outers is very faint, but the leaves are bright green.

[Leena]

'Gerard Parker', I like this very much, the flowers are such round and showy. It was planted last summer, and came up quite early and suffered a little from the cold, but I hope it will adjust itself in the years to come.
'Copton Trym'

[Alan_b]

'Green Light', and last a close up of the flower. The green in the outers is very faint, but the leaves are bright green.

The quantity of green on the outers varies from year to year but it almost never completely fails to perform.  It also bulks-up in fits and starts with a bumper year where one bulb becomes around 10 bulbs every so often.