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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Maggi Young on February 06, 2014, 01:30:00 PM
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A UK newspaper challenges our ability to "name that 'drop "
Take the test :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/10616979/Quiz-can-you-guess-the-snowdrop-name.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/10616979/Quiz-can-you-guess-the-snowdrop-name.html)
I've discovered that I have learned FAR too much from the forum !!
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I got 90% and I don't consider myself anything like an expert, merely a dabbler in reasonably priced 'drops!
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only 80%. The filled drops are not my thing 8)
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100% but there is a mistake with one of the flowers
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too easy!
Who makes a test with only yellows or only greens..only doubles etc?
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100% but there is a mistake with one of the flowers
Which one?
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80% right :), all the reading this winter has been useful, and I might have known the one wrong answer, but I don't know how Cordelia is different than Ophelia. More reading to do. :)
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Which one?
One of the white ones, I reckon!! ;D ;D ;D
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Yay I got 100% right too ;D
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100% but there is a mistake with one of the flowers
I agree Mark, here is Atkinsii on the left and Anglsey Abbey on the right
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The description though is for 'Atkinsii' ......
"An old cultivar with tall, elegant flowers and a heart-shaped green mark. It has won an RHS Award of Garden Merit for its quality"
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Strange the variability of the markings on Anglesey Abbey. See the photo in clump #1. Another clump has flowers mainly without marks and some with two eyes!
johnw
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80%!!! :( I'd prefer to be tested with pure species plants which are 20 at the moment 8)
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100 % :)
OK, 9 of the 10 are growing in my garden, so it was easy. But now I know the missing one to my collection ... :)
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The description though is for 'Atkinsii' ......
"An old cultivar with tall, elegant flowers and a heart-shaped green mark. It has won an RHS Award of Garden Merit for its quality"
The description is of Atkinsii and the photo is of Anglsey Abbey, I reckon anyways :)
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That's how I see it, Jo - surprised there are no more errors really - national press and all that!! :D
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It was the first thing Ian said - " how many are wrongly labelled?"
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I am shocked. I got 100%. I must spend too much time on the Galanthus thread. The descriptions helped as I would not have known some of them by the photographs.
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The description is of Atkinsii and the photo is of Anglsey Abbey, I reckon anyways :)
Agree, if it wasn't for that would have got 100%, demand a recount!
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100 % . Must agree with Roma that the desccriptions helped a lot.
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That's a bit easier than the tests we usually have on this forum ;D ;D ;D Usually get everything wrong, this time the opposite.
So next time we have one of those vases with 20 partially obscured snowdrops to identify please can we have a description of each and three choices ???
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The description is of Atkinsii and the photo is of Anglsey Abbey, I reckon anyways :)
That's how i saw it. 8).It's maybe a trick question,but most likely bad journalism......... ;D ;D ;D
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Here is a little vase of snowdrops for Telegraph readers to have a go at (from last winter). I am not sure I can recall the names of all them!
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I got 90%. I'm amazed, but I have to admit that it was a combination of the photo and the description. The one I got wrong was 'Kite'. I have grown it since 2010, and it has never been twin-headed. I think it came from Colesbourne originally but I am not completely sure. Photo below, is it 'Kite'?
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Looks right Carolyn - this is my plant of 'Kite' and I don't ever remember it being twin headed. It is a very elegant snowdrop and stands out in some way.