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Maggi Young

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Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« on: February 06, 2014, 01:30:00 PM »
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

I've discovered that I have learned FAR too much from the forum !!
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2014, 01:34:47 PM »
I got 90% and I don't consider myself anything like an expert, merely a dabbler in reasonably priced 'drops!
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Ralph Carpenter near Ashford, Kent, UK. USDA Zone 8 (9 in a good year)

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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2014, 01:39:52 PM »
only 80%. The filled drops are not my thing 8)
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2014, 01:57:01 PM »
Yay!

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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2014, 02:25:54 PM »
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100% but there is a mistake with one of the flowers
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2014, 02:29:41 PM »
too easy!

Who makes a test with only yellows or only greens..only doubles etc?
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2014, 02:31:52 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on February 06, 2014, 02:25:54 PM
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2014, 02:33:51 PM »
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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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2014, 02:39:15 PM »
Quote from: johnralphcarpenter on February 06, 2014, 02:31:52 PM
Which one?
One of the white ones, I reckon!!  ;D ;D ;D

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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!

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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2014, 02:41:36 PM »
Yay I got 100% right too  ;D
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2014, 04:12:09 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on February 06, 2014, 02:25:54 PM
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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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Maggi Young

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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2014, 04:24:01 PM »
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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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!

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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2014, 04:31:40 PM »
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!

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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2014, 04:42:35 PM »
80%!!!  :( I'd prefer to be tested with pure species plants which are 20 at the moment 8)
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Re: Newspaper - guess the snowdrop test!
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2014, 04:54:18 PM »
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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