Snowdrop Varieties - Where Are They Now?

[carolesmith]

At last years Gala or Garden House event there was some chat about Broadwell being lost. How many people grow it?

Margaret Glynn gave it to me some years ago and I now have a reasonable size clump.  It is much admired, partly due to the fact that it flowers much later than other varieties.

[steve owen]

Thanks again to all who have chipped in with information and suggestions.  Here is the latest version of the Where Are They Now? list. I have removed from it a number of snowdrops that apparently originated in Australia or other far-flung places and never properly entered cultivation in the UK. I have also deleted some snowdrops where an informant has said "this variety is alive and well" without adding any evidence as to where and with whom - so we have only one person's word for it. In two cases I have removed snowdrops where I received messages saying "I have this snowdrop, no-one else has nor will" - in which case one wonders why they presumably volunteered them for the Book.

The remaining list below remains a mystery, and it's still quite sizeable;

Armistice Day   
Barguest   
Ceri Roberts   
Crimea   
Crimean Emerald   
Dame Margot Fonteyn   
Diana Broughton   
Earliest   
Eleanor's Double   
Ellen Minnet   
Ermine Lace   
Ermine Oddity   
Ermine Ruby   
Gimli   
Halo   
Ispahan   
Joan Weighell   
Julia   
Krabat   
Lady Mary Grey   
Lanarth   
Linnetts Green Tips   
Long Tall Sally   
Longfellow   
Mafangza   
Maid Marian   
Matt-adors   
Missenden Slender   
Molly   
Watts   
Pat Mackenzie   
Pelican   
Phil Bryn   
Proliferation   
Quintet   
Robert Berkeley   
Ryton Ruth   
Scissors   
Shadow   
Six Leaves   
Slim Jim   
Squib   
Yuletide   

If you know differently, post a comment or send me a Personal Message via the PM tab! Thanks again for the help received so far,

Steve

[KentGardener]

Steve - would it be worth you writing to Dr MacKenzie as 'Pat MacKenzie' is named after his late wife according to the book.





(The photograph in the book has always reminded me of 'Pat Mason' which is not in the book)

[johnw]

Steve  - A friend had 2 Robert Berkeley in 2003, received one from Dr. MacKenzie in 2001 . As I am just writing a letter I will ask him if it has bulked up over the last 9 years and will let you know.  As mentioned before Ryton Ruth is alive and well in Devon.

johnw

[Martin Baxendale]

I found Robert Berkely from Ron to be prone to disease and also not terribly distinct, just another single-marked nivalis x plicatus. It kept going back here so I chipped it and it recovered for a year then started going back again. I think I gave up on it but may still have the remnants somewhere. Will have a look when I'm recovered from my current bad cold and everything has defrosted.

[steve owen]

Steve  - ... As mentioned before Ryton Ruth is alive and well in Devon.
johnw

Apologies John, I missed your earlier post.

[mark smyth]

Linnett Green Tips

[ruben]

i grow longfellow Steve! Try to make a picture of it tomorrow. Not sure its still in flower

[guytheeye]

its great to see the list being whittled down. Was Diana Broughton ever found?

[JimF]

'Pat Mackenzie' is grown in Washington state in the U.S.

Jim

[Rudi B.]

someone on here sent me Snow White's Gnome (a long time ago) but it didn't survive more than a year.

Richard,
'Snow White's Gnome' is from Wolfgang Kletzing.It blooms very late (April) .I have some sold in England.

[mark smyth]

I could be wrong but I think I have Dame Margot Fonteyn   

[Brian Ellis]

I could be wrong but I think I have Dame Margot Fonteyn

It appears on eBay so several people probably grow it.

[MR GRUMPY]

I could be wrong but I think I have Dame Margot Fonteyn

Here is a picture of mine

[MR GRUMPY]

Help please Maggi .I can't straighten the picture 

 edit by maggi = fixed it.