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Anthony Darby

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #315 on: March 26, 2012, 08:21:56 AM »
Gosh.  :o I wonder if my "Belle Etoile" survived?
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #316 on: March 26, 2012, 09:47:38 AM »
Great and new indeed Hagen, that one is absolutely stunning :o :o
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #317 on: March 26, 2012, 10:47:32 AM »
Wow, Hagen  :o
You always have something new and extraordinary to surprise us!
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #318 on: March 26, 2012, 12:36:04 PM »
Very good, Hans. How do you grow it? In an alpine house?

Thank you Thomas
I have no alpine house ...I grow it in my garden on a wet and shady spot.
My try with growing in pots was not well ...
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #319 on: March 26, 2012, 06:38:07 PM »
Hans, congratulations on the first G. platyphyllus! :)

Hagen, a stunning Galanthus!!!! Unique!
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #320 on: March 26, 2012, 06:43:09 PM »
Hagen - More stunners. You ARE the man!

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #321 on: March 26, 2012, 06:44:43 PM »
Hans - Quite wonderful to see G. platyphyllus.  Was it an early riser or did it have the good sense to rise late in your garden?

I hope you will do some hybridizing!

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #322 on: March 26, 2012, 07:15:17 PM »
Hans - Quite wonderful to see G. platyphyllus.  Was it an early riser or did it have the good sense to rise late in your garden?

I hope you will do some hybridizing!

johnw

Thank you JohnW !

I have just looked my older postings of this plants ...really interesting  :D

In one year it flowers on 29.03
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3300.0

in a other on 24.03
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6818.405

This says that the flowering time is really always the same ...luckily !
A lot of my other plants looks not so well ...and I hope that my G.ikariae ,snogerupii,woronowii,krasnovii have survived....

I will not make any hybrids  :o
My hope is to get pure G.platyphyllus ....the risk is low because all other snowdrops are over

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #323 on: March 26, 2012, 07:39:40 PM »
Hans -
I hope you will do some hybridizing!
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I will not make any hybrids  :o
My hope is to get pure G.platyphyllus ....the risk is low because all other snowdrops are over.  Hans

Hans - You can always save pollen for next spring.  ;)

Yes I too went back to your older postings on platyphyllus and saw some pale yellow basal marks too.

I am surprised you are concerned about your woronowiis. Were they from a milder area?

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #324 on: March 26, 2012, 07:46:05 PM »
JohnW

Yes - I was also surprised about the G.woronowii  :(
I think the problem was the very warm December + January ....and than really cold in Feberuar ( two weeks around -15° ...and no snow :'(
Really interesting for me is Gal. fosterii ...no problems with the cold !

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #325 on: March 26, 2012, 07:49:58 PM »
Hans, congratulations on the first G. platyphyllus! :)

Thank you Natalia  :D

Yes - my G.platyphyllus from Georgia looks well !
Not so nice looks the G.platyphyllus ex Russia ( G.valentinei) ...but I think it has survived  :-\

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #326 on: March 26, 2012, 09:22:11 PM »
I walked through my greenhouse/tunnel and to my surprise there were still a few in flower!
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and my platyphyllus

Till next snowdropseason! (September)

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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #327 on: March 27, 2012, 12:11:21 AM »
I'm with you on hybrids Hans, preferring the pure species.
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #328 on: March 27, 2012, 11:55:09 AM »
Not so nice looks the G.platyphyllus ex Russia ( G.valentinei) ...but I think it has survived  :-\
Hans what a sad news.  :-\ What is the reason do you think? G. valentinae survived very bad winters in my garden.

Your platyphyllus looks absolutely perfect!
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Re: Snowdrops in March 2012
« Reply #329 on: March 27, 2012, 12:01:43 PM »
Not so nice looks the G.platyphyllus ex Russia ( G.valentinei) ...but I think it has survived  :-\
Hans what a sad news.  :-\ What is the reason do you think? G. valentinae survived very bad winters in my garden.

Your platyphyllus looks absolutely perfect!

Olga ,

I think the reason was that your G.platyphyllus is much much earlier than my G.platyphyllus ex Georgia ...it has startet with flowering in January ....and than so many nights cold without any snow  :'(

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