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Garden center woronowii
...This year, there is little chance to find any special snowdrop in a garden centre, as they are closed due to the epidemic now.
Are the continental finds of "yellow" Galanthus nivalis also called sandersii? ´Rheingold´may be the first one named in Germany.
Garden centres were closed at the start of our first lockdown but it was quickly realised that they are as essential to the fabric of our society as grocery stores and have remained open ever since.Mr Sanders of Cambridge is long gone but he still gets the credit for all examples of a basic yellow nivalis, on the basis that although you can give individual finds a name you cannot really tell then apart. I inherited three little clumps growing in my garden, let alone the thousands that must be growing hereabouts. I take it 'Rheingold' predates the Engelmann era?
.... A wise decision, as it turned out.