Snowdrops

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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops 2016
« Reply #30 on: July 03, 2016, 09:43:48 AM »
Galanthus elwesii is flowering again in our rock garden,
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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Alisdair

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #31 on: July 04, 2016, 06:33:10 AM »
Perhaps the most truly Mediterranean of all the snowdrops :)
Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society

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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2016, 07:13:32 AM »
Yes, Alisdair,
for which I'm most grateful!
We struggle with G. nivalis here but G. elwesii improves and multiplies a little each year,
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2016, 01:50:09 PM »
Some more snowdrops out now:

1) What I received as Galanthus plicatus but is most likely an Galanthus elwesii hybrid;
2) a different one also received as Galanthus plicatus and not the same as the first one, but is it true to name?
3) a group of G. elwesii seedlings;
4) one of those seedlings with green marks on the outer petals;

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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #34 on: July 29, 2016, 02:52:41 PM »
This little snowdrop was found this morning - it's probably the common Galanthus nivalis but in our garden it is a rarity!
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #35 on: May 11, 2020, 11:43:42 AM »
Galanthus peshmenii is doing well, compared to the first pic I posted 5 years ago!
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

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« Reply #36 on: May 12, 2020, 06:37:10 AM »
Strange but interesting to be reminded you are gardening in a different season Fermi alhtough it hardly seems a minute ago that I was  eagerly awaiting the first Snowdrops.....
Now of course the garden is burgeoning with new things coming into bloom every day.
MGS member living and gardening in Umbria, Italy for past 19 years. Recently moved from my original house and now planning and planting a new small garden.

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Fermi

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« Reply #37 on: August 02, 2020, 04:36:41 PM »
The winter snowdrops are in bloom in our garden. We don't get masses of them but there are a few which seem at home here in Central Victoria.
Green Outer tips
Galanthus rizehensis
A sinister snowdrop!
Galanthus elwesii large green inner
Galanthus maybe 'Magnet'
The double Galanthus 'Lady Beatrix Stanley'
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

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John J

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #38 on: August 02, 2020, 06:41:22 PM »
I hope the moderators will forgive my going off subject a little. Fermi, I see you list your occupation as a physio and your location as Victoria. With the latest news from that area regarding the virus I hope that you are not in 'the front line' as it were and that you are keeping safe.
Cyprus Branch Head. Gardens in a field 40 m above sea level with reasonably fertile clay soil.
"Aphrodite emerged from the sea and came ashore and at her feet all manner of plants sprang forth" John Deacon (13thC AD)

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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #39 on: August 04, 2020, 10:15:13 AM »
Hi John,
Thanks for your concern.
I hadn't been working and was about to start applying for jobs when the pandemic hit!
I'm in a high risk group so am a bit unsure about returning to work...more time for gardening, I guess!
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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Fermi

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Re: Snowdrops
« Reply #40 on: August 07, 2021, 11:44:50 AM »
This is the first flowering of this double snowdrop.
In previous years the flower-bud has aborted before opening. The wetter winter may have played a part in getting it to flower.
The label has been lost but it's possibly 'Jaquenetta',
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
member of AGS, SRGC, NARGS
working as a physio to support my gardening habit!