Galanthus February 2020

[Blonde Ingrid]

Some more sunshine today and the third of the 'Big Three Virescents' is brightening the day.

Dryad Demeter, one of Anne Wright's superb 'Myths & Legends' series. Delicious heavy green colouration and a real eye catcher.





A fantastic variety that is producing the usual forest of bulbs, you expect from Anne.

[Maggi Young]

From the  AGS  on the recent  Snowdrop Day .... " Fun fact: Some snowdrops are so rare that a single bulb sells for hundreds - even thousands - of pounds! 'Ice Princess' is a double poculiform snowdrop (think giant flowers with ice white petals). It was the most expensive bulb at our Snowdrop Day at £500 a bulb!"

[Blonde Ingrid]

From the  AGS  on the recent  Snowdrop Day .... " Fun fact: Some snowdrops are so rare that a single bulb sells for hundreds - even thousands - of pounds! 'Ice Princess' is a double poculiform snowdrop (think giant flowers with ice white petals). It was the most expensive bulb at our Snowdrop Day at £500 a bulb!"

Careful Maggs, you will wake up the 'Its madness, that price for a bulb', 'its Tulipmania all over again' 'its chequebook purchasing', 'lets start a website for plain old nivalis', 'I long for the days when we could have a snowdrop lunch', 'cant every supplier just give them away', crowd!!! 

Earphones ready! 

[Dean316]

Ecusson d'Or one of my favourites 💛

[Blonde Ingrid]

A lovely shot of three of Andy's collection!



Top-Bottom
Lemongrass
Andea's Fault
Tall Dark & Handsome

Absolute crackers!

[SteveC2]

I will avoid the “It’s madness” etc as predicted by Ingrid but it does make me think that £20 for an Ophrys or new Pleione isn’t so bad. 
Of course the question is, did it sell?

[David Nicholson]

From the garden, total price of the lot £1.50, and that was  for 'Trumps'

Galanthus 'Armine'
Galanthus 'Trumps'

[David Nicholson]

Galanthus 'Tubby Merlin'

[annew]

Fantasy snowdrops!
Nice to fantasise - the appearance of a VERY exciting new seedling (nope, can't tell you) has led to an urgent desire to do some pollinating. Spent the morning 'milking' the pollen from a selection of flowers. Can you guess who donated and what I'm after?

This is my pollinating kit.

•   Squares of foil to collect the pollen on,
•   forceps, to remove stamens
•   sealed container to put the pollen packets in, which is stored in the fridge
•   sticky labels to label the pollen packets
•   strung tags to label the pollinated flowers
•   waterproof pen to write on the labels with

If I can, I bring the plants indoors to a warm room. This will get the pollen flowing, and help it to germinate on the stigma. If the plants aren't potted, it can be a cold couple of hours on your knees outside.
Clues to your activities - debitage around the coldframes! The inner and outer segments, and stamens from mother plants, are removed to allow access to the active bits.

The end result - lots of tagged flowers that now have to be watched hopefully to see if the seedpod will swell.

After that - well, just 4 or 5 years to wait until you can see whether your fantasy has come true!

[WSGR]

I followed the video and fiddled with the cross pollination. I am not sure I know how to wrap up the bulb. Might have to look at the video again.

Trump





Feel pathetic as other posters have a cluster and I have to take my lone flower on both side.

[Diane Whitehead]

I received two packets of snowdrop seeds from the seed exchange.

Galanthus rizehensis
 Galanthus plicatus Bolu Shades AHEP8313

Bolu is a place in Turkey, but what does AHEP8313 refer to?

[Maggi Young]

I received two packets of snowdrop seeds from the seed exchange.

Galanthus rizehensis
 Galanthus plicatus Bolu Shades AHEP8313

Bolu is a place in Turkey, but what does AHEP8313 refer to?

AHEP refers I believe  to a  collection by  Antoine  Hoog (?) and  Erich Pasche

[Gerdk]

AHEP refers I believe  to a  collection by  Antoine  Hoog (?) and  Erich Pasche

Yes - These are the collectors!

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

Yes - These are the collectors!

Gerd

Thank you, Gerd, I thought you'd  know! 

[Mariette]

´Green Comet´


´Angelique´



´Ermine House´



´Karneval´



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