pbs] Galanthus for warm climates
Diane Whitehead (Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:36:05 PST)

No G. fosteri. Well, maybe. I did buy some seeds and some
germinated, but I've just been outside staring at the label, and there
is no leaf showing yet. There is a group of us here in Victoria who
collect snowdrops, but I don't think any of the others have fosteri.

You can have a good idea of what people are growing by seeing what
seeds are offered in the various seed exchanges.

NARGS (North American Rock Garden Society) usually has only one kind
of Galanthus seed offered each year. I just looked at three old
seedlists. One year it was G. elwesii, one year G. nivalis and the
third year G. plicatus.

Fosteri hasn't ever been offered in the Alpine Garden Society or
Scottish Rock Garden Club seed exchanges. (I think I'm safe in
saying that without looking back through almost 40 years of seedlists.)

The snowdrops that are grown here in British Columbia are elwesii (the
commonest), nivalis and woronowii. They are sold in garden centres,
though woronowii isn't sold very often.

Some of us who buy seeds from Europe will also have plicatus, ikariae
and reginae-olgae.

Diane Whitehead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
cool mediterranean climate
moderate dry summers, moderate rainy winters
68 cm rain (27 in)