Snowdrops in March 2012

[mark smyth]

Here's the tiny elwesii again in good light and

G. plicatus ex Robin Hall which is always late

[Lina Hesseling]

Like them both, Mark.
Great pictures as usual.

Lina.

[johnw]

Gerard  - How many species are growing in this woodland?

You've had quite a succesful day!  How are your poor knees?

johnw

[mark smyth]

Thanks Lina

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, you are sure there is GnV-blood inside??? The outer green looks not so.

Hi Hagen. Most of my plicatus x 'Virescens' seedlings have no green on the outers at all. I am back-crossing them with 'Virescens' hoping that the gene for green outers may be recessive and that you need to cross a snowdrop with the green-outer gene with another snowdrop with the green-outer gene to be sure to get green outers in the seedlings. This seedling (and one other) do have some small patches of green on the outers and are also very small like 'Virescens'. They were both definitely seedlings from the cross plicatus x 'Virescens'.

Looking at this seedling, it does not look like the plicatus parent, but instead it looks very like a 'Virescens' but with only a little green on the outers (same size as 'Virescens' and same leaves).  All my seedlings from plicatus x 'Virescens' look like 'Virescens' (very small flowers and very small nivalis leaves) so the cross obviously worked. Just getting the 'Virescens' green on the outers will probably take another generation 

[Gerard Oud]

Gerard  - How many species are growing in this woodland?

You've had quite a succesful day!  How are your poor knees?

johnw

Only a few nivalis and most elwesii. My knees are still doing well, you forget the pain in the excitement

[Gerard Oud]

Gerard would you be so kind and reduce your photos to 700 or 750 pixels wide. I cant view your images on my laptops small screen

I will try next time but i am afraid they get to small, i had to reduce these allready with 30% and that was a lot of work with the number i got.

[Gerard Oud]

like this one

[art600]

Perfect 

[mark smyth]

THanks Gerard. What photo editing programme do you use? I use Photo Shop and can edit a photo in 45 seconds - yes I just timed myself. I crop out what I need, resize it to 700 pixels wide, sharpen if needed and save to a folder. If it's a photo that doesnt need cropped I resize to 700 without cropping

[Diane Clement]

THanks Gerard. What photo editing programme do you use? I use Photo Shop and can edit a photo in 45 seconds - yes I just timed myself. I crop out what I need, resize it to 700 pixels wide, sharpen if needed and save to a folder. If it's a photo that doesnt need cropped I resize to 700 without cropping

I do the cropping and any individual tweaking on each picture with a quick save, then resize the whole folder in one go using the Batch process

[John Aipassa]

I would kindly ask any of you what you think of this yellowish elwesii.

I bought a bunch of elwesii last Saturday at the Hessenhof nursery in Ede Netherlands and this one was in one of the pots. It looked yellow, but I am not familiar with yellow ones. Is it just a common one or does it stand out in some way? I have taken some pictures of it with a common green nivalis to show the difference in color.

What do you think?

Thanks.

[daveyp1970]

John i can't speak for everybody but i think thats lovely was it in your garden?

[Alan_b]

I am not familiar with yellow ones. Is it just a common one or does it stand out in some way?

Basically there are two types of yellows, those that are intrinsically yellow and come true every year and those that are yellow because they have been deprived of light (the so-called "cowpat yellow") which will be perfectly normal (i.e. green) next year and ever afterwards.

Genuine yellow elwesii snowdrops are very rare but you will have to wait another year to find out if that is what you have.       

[Brian Ellis]

Gerard would you be so kind and reduce your photos to 700 or 750 pixels wide. I cant view your images on my laptops small screen

I use the scroll bars Mark, it means you can see the picture more closely if not all at once