Galanthus 'Longworth Double'

[uvularia]

I was wondering if anyone knows of a source of the 'Longworth Double'. I have never seen it on a list or a photo. I have some friends in Longworth, Oxon and I would dearly love to find them one?

[Maggi Young]

This may be a lead  from http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/kwekerij/BO/B/1/bolle-jist/12.html      

Alle Jans Smedingstrjitte 20
9008 SE Reduzum
Nederland

[uvularia]

Thanks Maggi! I will give them a try!

[Alan_b]

A dead end, I fear.  This looks to me like the Dutch database of named snowdrops with little information on sources.  It reproduces the misnaming of 'Green Light' as 'Greenlight' that was in that database and there are no documented sources of that (although, actually, it is commercially available through Monksilver Nursery).  Nor of 'Longworth Double' http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/plant/BO/G/1/galanthus-longworth-double/385333.html .

Seemingly 'Longworth Double' is in the collection of Annie Fallinger http://www.plantencollecties.nl/collecties/galanthus/1550/#tab-id-1 so perhaps you could make a trade?  Or you could try our UK National Collection holders, Steve Owen or Margaret MacLennan (both of whom are scheduled to speak at snowdrop events in February).

According to 'The Book' it was found in what had been the garden of Longworth Hopsital in Longworth and was offered for sale by Phil Cornish. 

[steve owen]

Alan
I had it (in 2009, from North Green Snowdrops) and lost it. The fact that I haven't replaced it demonstrates that it isn't easy to come by. NGS varieties are not always steadily available, and some of Phil Cornish's finds are also sometimes difficult to track down. But we keep trying! Margaret M might be able to help?
Steve

[Alan_b]

'Longworth Double' is on the same page of 'The Book' as 'Richard Ayres'.  Both were discovered in the 1980s yet the former is almost unknown whilst the latter is now very readily available.  Whilst individual snowdrop losses are mostly just random misfortune, a failure to thrive over three decades might be indicative of a plant that isn't garden-worthy.  In which case, Paul, it might not be the best gift for your friends, despite the appropriate name.

[snowdropcollector]

Longworth Double is still a cultivar 'going around' over here on the mainland  . I grow it also, it is not a fast multiplier.
I will send you pm, Paul.

[uvularia]

Thanks folks for all your help. I now have plenty of offers of 'Longworth Double'! It does still seem to be out there, all be it, in small numbers. It will be nice to re-establish a few in Longworth. (I hope my friend doesn't sell up before I can generate at few bulbs!) Personally I love to grow plants discovered locally to a particular area, it give a garden 'local distinctiveness'.

[Alan_b]

It will be nice to re-establish a few in Longworth.

Maybe you could go further than that, Paul, and re-establish 'Longworth Double' as a snowdrop you can actually buy.

[steve owen]

Thanks folks for all your help. I now have plenty of offers of 'Longworth Double'! It does still seem to be out there, all be it, in small numbers. It will be nice to re-establish a few in Longworth. (I hope my friend doesn't sell up before I can generate at few bulbs!) Personally I love to grow plants discovered locally to a particular area, it give a garden 'local distinctiveness'.

Good news, Paul. If any of your contacts can maybe swap with me so I can get this bulb back into cultivation I would be happy to hear from them. Thanks,
Steve

[Mariette]

After lots of rain during a spell of sunshine : ´Longworth Double´.