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Title: Unknown Snowdrop
Post by: SusanH on March 17, 2013, 06:30:38 PM

I was hoping someone can help me identify this Snowdrop which is growing amongst a group of "normal" Flore Pleno.
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Title: Re: Unknown Snowdrop
Post by: mark smyth on March 17, 2013, 06:33:39 PM

Hi Susan

It looks like a less messy nivalis flore plena

Title: Re: Unknown Snowdrop
Post by: Alan_b on March 17, 2013, 08:02:51 PM

There can be a great deal of variety in the exact form of nivalis flore pleno.  Some characteristics are reproducible year-on-year and some depend on the particular season.  To my personal taste, the distortion in the petals makes this snowdrop not very desirable as a 'collectors item', even if it looked the same every year.  But others may hold different opinions.   

Title: Re: Unknown Snowdrop
Post by: SusanH on March 19, 2013, 02:33:32 PM

Thank you for your help. I am relatively new to growing Snowdrops - almost all the ones in my garden are nivalis but I am hoping to expand in the future.  I think I have a clump of Tiny Tims but am a bit unsure and have no way of verifying this. Thanks again, Susan H

Title: Re: Unknown Snowdrop
Post by: mark smyth on March 19, 2013, 05:44:11 PM

Did you buy Tiny Tim? If you didn't you just have a small nivalis

Title: Re: Unknown Snowdrop
Post by: Alan_b on March 19, 2013, 06:02:49 PM

Quote from: SusanH on March 19, 2013, 02:33:32 PM

I think I have a clump of Tiny Tims but am a bit unsure and have no way of verifying this.

Then I am sorry to say that you don't have a clump of 'Tiny Tim'.  Provenance is everything with a snowdrop.  Even if you once bought 'Tiny Tim' but then lost track of it, unless you are very very sure then it would be wrong to take a snowdrop found in your garden and say: 'Oh, that must be Tiny Tim'.