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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: mark smyth on September 18, 2012, 11:28:40 PM

Title: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: mark smyth on September 18, 2012, 11:28:40 PM

Saw this new Leucojum selection at Harrowgate Show on Friday. A UK nursery was selling them.

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: David Nicholson on September 19, 2012, 09:49:59 AM

A typo perhaps, or an over enthusiastic nurseryman?

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1143 (http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1143)

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Gerry Webster on September 19, 2012, 10:10:28 AM

Quote from: David Nicholson on September 19, 2012, 09:49:59 AM

.......... an over enthusiastic nurseryman?

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1143 (http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1143)

Down-to-earth perhaps?

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 19, 2012, 10:53:18 AM

Did it pull people in?

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Hans J on September 19, 2012, 12:10:41 PM

Hi all ,

"Gravetye Giant" is a old cultivar ....it is mentioned in the book of F.C.Stern ( 1956 )
It is a hybrid or a form of G.aestivum ...
Here are two pics from my garden :

In germany we say :
"Alter Käse in neuer Schachtel"
this means : old cheese in a new box

Hans

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Paul T on September 19, 2012, 01:14:10 PM

Hans,

I think he was making fun of the spelling, which ended up as Gravity, a whole different thing to Gravetye. ;D

Mark,

There are good and bad things to that possible name.  You could either say that it was very attractive, or alternatively that it sucks.  :P

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Hans J on September 19, 2012, 01:17:22 PM

Ahhhh ...thank you Paul !
Now I have understand the joke  ;D

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 20, 2012, 05:24:30 AM

I think it's just lost like a Chinese whisper. A bit like staring bewildered at a box on a maths desk labelled "student compass" when it clearly held a set of compasses and in no way could I find North with it! ::)

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: fleurbleue on September 20, 2012, 12:57:03 PM

Gravetye Giant flowers later and bigger than aestivum.

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Roma on September 20, 2012, 01:56:55 PM

I remember a few interesting labels from my time working on a local plant nursery before I went to the Cruickshank Garden.
Skruffularia was obvious but Thuja 'Frogbelly' was a mystery till I found Thuja occidentalis 'Froebelii' as a synonym for 'Hoveyi'
( Hillier's Manual of Trees & Shrubs 1974 ).

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Paul T on September 20, 2012, 02:06:59 PM

Roma,

Well that is sort of round and green, so "frogbelly" seems suitable as well.  ;D

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: frits.kp on September 20, 2012, 05:49:27 PM

I wonder if someone have told him the name over the phone.
"Grave e tye Giant."
"What did you say Gravity?"

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 22, 2012, 09:45:05 AM

Now 'gravy tie' is something I can empathise with! ;D

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Mark Griffiths on September 23, 2012, 11:33:56 AM

each packet comes with a sachet of Higg's Bosons.

Title: Re: A new Leucojum selection
Post by: Michael J Campbell on September 23, 2012, 02:15:22 PM

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D