Saturday, January 07, 2006

First Snowdrop

I went out for a quick walk-around in the garden before we leave on vacation, and found this little snowdrop blooming. It's tiny, and its spathe is a little worse for wear from blooming this early, looking like a little ragamuffin at the doorstep, but it looks fine to me (besides, I needed to get its picture published to enter Kathy, of Cold Climate Garden's grand, first snowdrop contest... alas, I've already been beaten out by someone from Jersey, so the weekend in Vegas isn't coming my way, but I'm still in the running for the snowblower)! What's surprising about this little snowdrop is that its diminutive size and inner petal coloration would suggest it's Galanthus nivalis, the lesser snowdrop, that usually blooms several weeks after Galanthus elwesii, the greater snowdrop (which hasn't even bloomed yet). Posted by Picasa

// posted by IBOY @ 10:09 AM
Comments:
It's Kathy, not Judy (though Judy does sometimes write for my blog). And while we're straightening out names, it's Cold Climate Gardening, not Cold Country Gardening (though I do live in the country). Have you always had a problem with names?
# posted by Blogger Kathy : January 08, 2006
 
Kathy,
Well, I do have an excuse of sorts... that was posted with my hula shirt on, and one foot in the car to the airport (besides, I just copied "Country" off of some stupid blog. That explains the "Country"; now "Judy"... I'm not sure WHERE that came from.
Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : January 20, 2006
 
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