Galanthus February 2011

[Gerard Oud]

Found today a white double with a small RED MARKING on the tip of the outer petals

[art600]

VIRUS 

[Gerard Oud]

No virus to be seen and if i hope its stabile

[RichardW]

carnivorous snowdrop? might be blood 

[Maggi Young]

Found today a white double with a small RED MARKING on the tip of the outer petals

That just looks like a spot of mould to me, where the bud got too wet .......

[Martin Baxendale]

Could be the start of stagonospora. The soil looks very wet.

[Martin Baxendale]

My elwesii monostictus x ikariae seedling hasn't produced a huge flower, but it should get bigger as the bulb matures. This is its first flowering, and the flowers are always much smaller to start with than they'll get in future years.

Seems quite intermediate, flower shape like the elwesii mono. seed parent and mark quite ikariae-like. Sorry it's not opening wide enough yet to show the mark properly.

What is encouraging is it seems to be vigorous with three daughter bulbs already even at first flowering and just 4 years from sowing. Have already back-crossed it with ikariae. Hopefully, if fertile, it will eventually lead to a swarm of strong garden-worthy ikariae-like snowdrops.

[RichardW]

very cold today so not much to photograph, found an orange stained niv fp flower, maybe something similar to Gerard's?, plant seems healthy enough.

Couple of Blewbury Tart, one of the few doubles I really like.
Ugly thing was given to me as Double Sharlockii but appears to be D, Double Charmer in the bible.
A very green nivalis.

[Brian Ellis]

What is encouraging is it seems to be vigorous with three daughter bulbs already even at first flowering and just 4 years from sowing. Have already back-crossed it with ikariae. Hopefully, if fertile, it will eventually lead to a swarm of strong garden-worthy ikariae-like snowdrops.

That seems like one to watch Martin.

[freddyvl]

As promised:
Serie 1: Snowdrops named after 'women'

1) 'Alison Hilary':
Selected in 1996 by Joe Sharman from a mixed snowdropcolony at the former Backhouse garden at Sutton Court, Herefordshire, now belonging to the Page family. Named for Alison Page, née Hilary

2) 'Betty Hansell':
This fine regular double was found by Robert Marshall in 1994 near Hainford, Norfolk and named for his aunt.

3) 'Dodo Norton':
A 'miniature' snowdrop' (10 cm with large, textured flowers) spotted in 2000 in the ditch garden at East Lambrook Manor, South Perton, Somerset. It acquired the name of the wive of the previous owner, Andrew Norton.

4) 'Helen Tomlinson':
An elwesii with large, shapely flowers and fine glaucous leaves, albeit not especially distinct in marking. Named after John Tomlinson's wife Helen.

5) ‘Margaret Biddulph’:
A convolute with green washed outer petals. From the garden at Rodmarton and named by Simon Biddulph in honour of his grandmother.

6) ’Patricia Ann’:
An attractive late plicatus ssp. byzantinus which was given to Dr Ronald MacKenzie by Carolyn Elwes and named after Ronald MacKenzie’s wife.

7) ‘Primrose Warburg’:
Primrose Warburg,  who died in 1996, left  a large collection of snowdrops brought together over many years in her Primrose’s garden at South Hayes, Oxford. In 1997 the collection was identified, especially by John Grimshaw, and many seedlings were named among them ‘Primrose Warburg’ (and ‘South Hayes’).

8 ) ‘Selina Cords’:
Found in 2006 by Rudi Bauer in a population of nivalis scharlockii and name it after his granddaughter Selina Cords.

[Brian Ellis]

Very nice Freddy, I hadn't picked up on the Norfolk connection to 'Betty Hansell' before, I shall have to look out for herm and the lovely 'Margaret Biddulph'.

As a matter of interest do you find Selina Cords flowers very close to the ground?

[freddyvl]

Brian, not especially as you can see on the picture below. A cultivar from which I found the flowers mostly or only on the ground in my garden is 'Walrus'.

[loes]

and a few from Holland:
Trym
Spindlestone Surprise
Marijke
Hans guck in die Luft
Irish Green
ikariae
Big Boy(with very faint green lines)
rizehensis
Joy Cozens(faded orange but still visible)
woronowii

[loes]

another few:
Octopussy
not BoBette
Viridapice
Lady Elphinstone(just one a little bit yellow)

[David Nicholson]

Jon Evans has put some images of plants put forward for consideration by the Joint Rock Garden Committee at the RHS Show held 15 Feb. including some Snowies, on the AGS on-Line Discussion. Thought you might like to know!

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows//RHS+Show+in+Westminster+th+February/483/?page=1