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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #345 on: March 17, 2011, 07:59:43 PM »
No Davey but I wish I had one of them.

At the Garden House we were told G. caucasicus does exist. At the same garden I saw and forgot to photograph a stunning very late flowering elwesii monostictus. Huge very silver leaves, good flowers with a small horsehoe mark. As far as I know these were bought as dry bulbs. Could they be G. caucasicus?
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #346 on: March 18, 2011, 07:24:05 AM »
Quote from: Rob on March 17, 2011, 06:13:58 PM
Quote from: Gerard Oud on March 17, 2011, 02:27:40 PM
The Big Bopper, just a selection from a Very Big plicatus, almost twice as big then Diggory!

Gerard,
The big bopper sounds like it would make a good garden plant.


Oh baby thats what i like!  A very good garden plant ;D
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #347 on: March 18, 2011, 08:28:00 AM »
Quote from: Gerard Oud on March 18, 2011, 07:24:05 AM
Quote from: Rob on March 17, 2011, 06:13:58 PM
Quote from: Gerard Oud on March 17, 2011, 02:27:40 PM
The Big Bopper, just a selection from a Very Big plicatus, almost twice as big then Diggory!

Gerard,
The big bopper sounds like it would make a good garden plant.


Oh baby thats what i like!  A very good garden plant ;D


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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #348 on: March 18, 2011, 09:56:34 AM »
Quote from: robsorchids on March 17, 2011, 08:37:25 PM
hi guys, not posted much as ive been ignoring the snowdrops this year  ;D been far to busy but have been looking at them from time to time, wonder what this one is, it looks familiar but no label, anyone know what it is?



Hi Rob  ;D nice to hear from you . Could it possibly be 'greenish ' ??????
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #349 on: March 18, 2011, 04:51:53 PM »
Here are 2 pics from today with The Big Bopper open. Good to see now how big it is!
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #350 on: March 18, 2011, 05:50:06 PM »
Quote from: emma T on March 18, 2011, 09:56:34 AM
Hi Rob  ;D nice to hear from you . Could it possibly be 'greenish ' ??????

Just what I thought in both cases.  That is, it's nice to hear from Rob again after a long absence and I too wondered if the snowdrop could be 'Greenish', except I'm not sure if it is quite green enough.
« Last Edit: March 18, 2011, 07:22:24 PM by Alan_b »
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #351 on: March 18, 2011, 06:25:32 PM »
Here's Greenish.
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #352 on: March 18, 2011, 10:01:17 PM »
Thanks for the pics guys. The nearest I can get to white fever. Even the garden centres here, which are full of spring bulbs such as daffs and hyacinths, don't have snowdrops. The lady I spoke to said she thought she'd heard of them! ::) Surely I can grow ikariae or reginae-olgae here? ???
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #353 on: March 18, 2011, 10:08:50 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on March 18, 2011, 10:01:17 PM
Thanks for the pics guys. The nearest I can get to white fever. Even the garden centres here, which are full of spring bulbs such as daffs and hyacinths, don't have snowdrops. The lady I spoke to said she thought she'd heard of them! ::) Surely I can grow ikariae or reginae-olgae here? ???

You will just have to start again from seed - there are always some in the Seed Exchange  :)
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #354 on: March 19, 2011, 12:16:19 PM »
Here are some pics from today, for what i can see been my last snowdrophunt this season.
Lots of elwesii in a forrest somewhere :o
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #355 on: March 19, 2011, 12:18:03 PM »
Some more :o
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #356 on: March 19, 2011, 12:19:53 PM »
The last :o
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #357 on: March 19, 2011, 12:28:03 PM »
Very nice Gerard. 

The last picture looks very like Robin Hood. 

Are they all hybrids that have occurred in the wild, or a mixture of cultivated and wild?

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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #358 on: March 19, 2011, 12:43:14 PM »
Looks like but it is not!

They are all wild hybrids Lewis.
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #359 on: March 19, 2011, 12:57:53 PM »
Amazing range.  Good to see diversity.  Most of the woodland around me is very samey.  Lots of G. nivalis, but very little variation.

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