Thanks for your reply Janis, a wonderful story of survival how you found and named 'Carpathian Wonder'. The meadows of Crocus vernus here are quite an amazing sight as far as the eye can see, I shall look out for the rare Y next year!
Robin, this reply from Janis is all rubbish. I personally have seen Otto out in his garden, lying on his tummy and weilding a fine paintbrush, making the little lilac marks on each crocus flower. He does them just before the visitors arrive and he has to re-do them after rain. I have no doubt that Janis does exactly the same with his. 
Lesley,
In that case he must send out little elves with some of his plants..... the 'Carpathian Wonder' he sent me had those little Y's on them, and I am FAR too lazy to get out there with a paintbrush and put them on there myself. Unless of course Otto has been in communication with our dog and trained her to do it, although how she managed to jump all the way up onto that table with her hip problems I will never know!
And without breaking anything else growing on the table at the same time.
Hmmmm.... and now that I think about it she IS called 'Elf', so perhaps my mentioning of Otto sending elves with his plants might have subconsciously been right on target?
And also, having seen Otto's garden I am not sure there is space anywhere there for him to lie on his tummy, well not without ending up rolling down the slope and damaging everything he rolls over.
