'Theresa Stone' is indeed a selection of G. elwesii. I got mine from Louise, too, in 2000. In my garden it has not been slow to increase, by any means, as the attached photo shows. (There are also some G. rizehensis, gracilis, plicatus, nivalis and others in the group pictured, but most of them are Theresa or her progeny. They're even escaping into the less hospitable front yard.) There are a number of species which flower earlier (G. peshmenii is the first here, and is long done flowering), but I can usually count on seeing the first flowers on Theresa some time before the end of January. There's an excellent and detailed description of the process of twin-scaling here: http://judyssnowdrops.co.uk/Propagation/… Bob Nold, Denver, Colorado less than 17mm precip since August 1st On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 10:34 AM R Hansen via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Yesterday, as I slipped and slid and tried hard not to fall on my tutu, I > realized Galanthus Theresa Stone was blooming. I'd always thought it was > your basic snowdrop, just an earlier blooming and much slower reproducing > one. Today as I googled this snowdrop, I saw it referred to as G. elwesii. > Mine came from a garden in Corvallis, Oregon and I repeat, it is incredibly > slow at reproducing. > > > > However, it is by far my earliest snowdrop, reliably so. Is anyone else > growing it, and if so, do they agree that it's a selection of G. elwesii? > > > > Robin Hansen > > Southwestern Oregon > > Very mushy snow on the ground, so yes, we had a white Christmas, > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cropped-dsc_5639.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 110562 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
