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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. Most are easy but we never have enough of the cultivars and prices may appear steep but they are expensive for us to purchase and acclimatise. alpinus var. alpinus (syn. caucasicus) The subject of much confusion since it was first described in 1911.This is a subalpine plant from the Caucasus 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 $15.00 "Dionysus" Uncommon Shakespearian double from Mr Greatorex providing a fine early season
display. Robust, fulsome flowers with a deep green inverted heart on the outside of her 9-10 snowy
inner segments. Limit of 1 per customer. FS/1st $10.00
elwesii Much larger flowered and vigorous species than G. nivalis with greyish leaves that are hooded at the tips. Generally the flower has green markings at both the base and the tip of the inner segment FS/1st $5.00 or 3 for $13.00 "Kite" Novelty cultivar regularly producing twin flowers on the same stem and sometimes they fuse to produce "Siamese twins". Broad, grey leaves and well-defined X on inner segments. Limit of 1 per customer $15.00 "Galatea" James Allen raised this plant, 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 $9.00 "Lady Beatrix Stanley" A.M. (1982) Known for many years as a double-flowered G. caucasica but
now considered a hybrid. Leaves grey-green and erect and the rosette is composed of about 15
inner segments. A robust garden plant quickly making a fine showy clump. FS/1st $10.00 plicatus Known as the Crimean Snowdrop, this is a distinct species with very attractive, broad leaves that fold down on the edges (explicate) and large, solid flowers, variously marked on inner segments. FS/1st $6.00 "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 $5.00 “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 "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 $5.00 |
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