Snowdrops

http://www.snowdropinfo.com/galanthusgallery.htm

Wow, so many to collect.

 

Aye, but look at the prices of some of the rarer ones, or even some of the less rare too.

 

yep. But they do make babies quickly.

 

Sadly, not all of them. I have one which has stayed a single bulb for quite a few years now and Wendy's Gold has gone from 5 to 1 in 3 years.

 

Sadly not the ones that are £5-£10, and more, each ... which is, sadly, why those ones are £5-£10, and more, each :(

Do you have Galanthophiles over your side of the pond? and thus a supply of rarer / more unusual varieties?

 

Yes, we have them over here. Not sure the variety names. But I do have three types on my property.

 

The three I have are the "bog standard" Single and Double - G. nivalis and G. flore pleno, and then a wider leaf one with taller flowers and longer outer petals. It flowers earlier, so I reckon it is G. elwesii. They seem to be the common ones around here, although I have also bought a few G. ikariae and as they are the same price as G. elwesii then perhaps they are as common.

Hopefully the snow will have cleared enough to pick some more tomorrow, I picked the first vase weekend before last.

 

So have a look at these from Belgium
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jan241359046525IRG37Jan2013.pdf

 

OMG!!!! I'm hooked ... and DOOMED I tell you !!!

 

Harveys Galanthus sales list 2013.doc
http://carolynsshadegardens.com/ for Redstar
Google Galanthus and you get a lot more people who ell them.

 

Harveys are just down the road from me, and I already have 2nd Feb (from memory) in my diary to trot along to their open day

 

Thanks for that web site. Have to remember it in August to order, I plant in October-bulbs.

 

I've been out this morning and staked the "clumps" that could be split up, but TBH there are so few that I don't have any spares as yet - you'd get 2 or 3 bulbs which is a bit the blunt-stick eye-poke ...

However, I thought I might try twin-scaling on these to see how I get on, and if that is successful I'll bring some over to a future Open Day