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GALANTHUSThe true snowdrops are perhaps the best of all early flowering bulbs, appearing through the bleakest period of the year and heralding the imminent arrival of a new season. We never have enough of the cultivars and prices may appear steep but they are expensive for us to purchase and acclimatise. That’s if we can find a supplier who is willing to put themselves through the grueling requirements demanded by CITES and Quarantine regulations! There’s got to be a better way?? alpinus var. alpinus (syn. caucasicus) The subject of much confusion over the years and now we have just enough to offer this rare species. First described in 1911 and many years later arriving in the West, this is a subalpine plant from the Caucasus and Transcaucasus with narrow, glaucous leaves and a single green mark on the apex of the flower. Rarest plant on the entire list so limit of 1 per customer 1st $12.00 “Atkinsii” An excellent snowdrop with lovely pear drop-shaped flowers that have very long pointed outer segments. Its early into flower, very vigorous In the garden. Simply one of the best! FS/1st $7.00 elwesii Much larger flowered species than G. nivalis with greyish leaves which can be hooded at the tips. Generally the flower has green markings at both the base and the tip of the inner segment. Vigorous garden plant. FS $5.00 elwesii “Yvonne Hay” (syn. “Maximus”) The largest and one of the earliest of the elwesii group to flower, coming into bloom sometimes in early June. Big, clean white blooms on very tall stems with broad, glaucous leaves makes it a must have garden selection. Offered previously as “Maximus”. 30 quid a bulb In the UK! Limit of I per customer FS/1st $15.00 elwesii "Comet"? We have offered this plant on other occasions as “Green Outer Tips” but we are confident that this is the real deal. Bears large flowers with a deep green mark on the inner segments, slightly variable green markings to the outer ones. Wide glaucous foliage is a perfect foil. FS/1st $10.00 "Galatea" James Allen raised this pl
ant, along with hundreds of others over his lifetime, and he claimed this to be one of his best. To quote E.A. Bowles “ … a rival to G. “Galatea” would indeed be well worth the finding.” Not unlike “Magnet” but larger and earlier. Limit of 1 per customer FS/1st $12.00 "Lady Beatrix Stanley" A.M. (1982) Known for many years as a double-flowered G. caucasica but now considered to be a hybrid. Leaves grey-green and erect. The rosette is composed of about 15 inner segments and the outer segments are rather narrow and slightly clawed. A robust garden plant, quickly making a fine clump. An award from the Alpine Garden Society in 1982. FS/1st $8.00 nivalis Often described as the “English snowdrop” because it has naturalised in many parts of the UK. This is a first rate species, easy to establish and flowers annually without fail. Good garden plant increasing by offsets and seed. FS/1st $4.00 "Ophelia" One of the best of the Greatorex doubles with a neat double flower on a slender pedicel, outer segments slightly “pinched, often with green markings extending up the flower. An absolute must for any collection FS/1st $10.00 rizehensis From Northern Turkey on the Black Sea Coast. A snowdrop of exquisite scale and proportion, with neat rounded flowers and narrow, deep green leaves. “Chinese bridge” shaped mark on inner segments reminiscent of G. “Straffan”. Naturally small bulbs FS/1st $7.00 “Sam Arnott” or Sam Arnott’s seedling. This is one of the best garden selections, a robust grower with rounded, medium-sized flowers of good substance in mid-winter. A legend that has stood the test of time and simply not to be without! FS/1st $7.00 “Straffan” (A.M. 1968) A late and very handsome snowdrop bearing glistening white, perfectly proportioned flowers late in the season. Found in Lord Clarina’s garden at Straffan, County Kildare In 1858, it remains one of the aristocrats of this tribe. Limit of 1 per customer FS/1st $12.00 “Tubby Merlin” A delightfully scaled-down version of G. “Merlin” raised by E.B. Anderson. Very rounded flower with a honey scent, the inner segments are deep green at the base shading to near yellow and the ovary is a pale yellow. Limit of 1 per customer FS/1st $12.00 woronowii Found in the SW Caucasus near the Black Sea coast in woodland conditions. Flowersof medium size, leaves lustrous green not unlike a smaller version of G. ikariae ssp ikariae. Excellent for naturalising in the garden FS $4.00
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