[pbs] Galanthus reginae-olgae, was New Jersey Weather
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totototo at telus.net
Mon Feb 2 19:39:09 EST 2009
On 2 Feb 2009, at 10:46, Jane McGary wrote:
> [Galanthus reginae-olgae] increases fairly well but doesn't seem to set
> viable seed, perhaps because I have only one clone.
I have two forms of this, both grown from exchange seed. One has flowers
accurately described by the Farrerean epithet "squinny": rather narrow petals
with little substance to them, more nearly the ghost of a plant than a plant of
beauty.
However, the other form has nice dumpy flowers of good substance, and is a
welcome site in late fall.
Locally, there is a rather large snowdrop grown that usually flowers in early
December regular as clockwork, later than my G. r-o forms but earlier than all
the rest. It appears to have been passed from hand to hand in a single small
neighborhood, though it occurs spottily elsewhere. I have some specimens of
what appears to be the same form. Can anyone suggest the proper name of this
form?
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=48.4676,-123.3262&ll=48.4676,-123.3262&z=14
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