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Title: Help with identification
Post by: Ant-k on March 03, 2015, 06:15:33 PM: Found this picture on the alpine garden society website of the Avon plant stand at the RHS plant and Pototoe fair..can anyone make out what the front variety is,I just can't quite make out what the labels says?
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Post by: Ant-k on March 03, 2015, 06:19:22 PM: Another picture of one I really like
Big Eyes
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 03, 2015, 06:38:14 PM: Looks like 'Beluga' Anthony - we need "DingDong's" help on this one....
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Post by: Brian Ellis on March 03, 2015, 09:46:05 PM: ...or Bebugs?
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 03, 2015, 09:54:21 PM: In my ignorance I've never heard of either! :-[
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Post by: Matt T on March 03, 2015, 10:13:05 PM: 'Deluge' perhaps?
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Post by: mark smyth on March 03, 2015, 10:53:27 PM: 'Big Eyes' is great because it not only looks good but it flowers just as others are going over
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Post by: Lori S. on March 04, 2015, 12:18:13 AM: Quote from: Ant-k on March 03, 2015, 06:15:33 PM
Found this picture on the alpine garden society website of the Avon plant stand at the RHS plant and Pototoe fair..can anyone make out what the front variety is,I just can't quite make out what the labels says?
I too see "Beluga".
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Post by: art600 on March 04, 2015, 07:22:34 AM: I found this snowdrop in a pot of ordinary snowdrops and wonder if it can be identified as a named drop
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Post by: Ding Dong on March 05, 2015, 08:26:30 AM: Hi Ant-K & Maggie - The name was definately Beluga, and I've checked with Alan, it is an elwesii - we haven't had any available for sale yet, but hopefully will have next year :) :) :)
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 05, 2015, 09:59:07 AM: Hi Maxine - thanks for your help - we needed the assistance of an "Avon Representative" there !!

So, now we know that Galanthus elwesii 'Beluga' is a tasty number which m ay soon be available.... good news, I'm sure :)

I hope Alan S. was amused at the prospect of us straining to make out the name from the photo! ::)

Cheers,

Maggi
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Post by: mark smyth on March 05, 2015, 04:23:05 PM: Quote from: art600 on March 04, 2015, 07:22:34 AM
I found this snowdrop in a pot of ordinary snowdrops and wonder if it can be identified as a named drop

Garden centre or in snowdrops you have already bought as a named snowdrop? Its leaves look like a plicatus hybrid
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Post by: Carolyn on March 06, 2015, 10:01:37 PM: Can anyone identify this snowdrop? It was given to me by friends who have a big clump in their garden. It has increased well and has nice leaves.
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Post by: Alan_b on March 07, 2015, 06:20:48 AM: Carolyn, bit difficult to tell for certain but the leaves look to me like Galanthus plicatus. The type with two marks is sometimes described as ssp. byzantinus but it is such a long time since this species came to the UK that the two marks could easily result from hybridization rather than the area of ancestral origin. Plicatus snowdrops are often vigorous but there is no reason to suppose what you have is a named cultivar. And if it is not named already it would not be named now because it is too easy to find similar-looking ones in a naturalised plicatus population.
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Post by: Carolyn on March 07, 2015, 06:58:42 AM: Thank you, Alan
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Post by: Alan_b on March 07, 2015, 07:18:17 AM: Re-reading my response it seems a bit harsh. It's not that it isn't a handsome snowdrop, just that being handsome isn't enough these days. Which, I suppose, might indicate that we galanthophiles have 'lost the plot' and presently favour the exotic over the just plain good.