ID for another two galanthus please

[WSGR]

A yellow one




Another one please




Thank you.

[Alan_b]

To properly identify a snowdrop you need to see the whole plant, not just the flower.  The leaves can be equally important in an identification.  The vast majority of snowdrops you will see are not named cultivars and some named cultivars are pretty similar in appearance.  I am somewhat of the opinion that a snowdrop that has lost its label has lost its name and a name once lost cannot be recovered.  However if you can narrow down the list of suspects to the names of snowdrops you have previously bought and can no longer find then it may be possible to re-assign a name to a snowdrop by a process of elimination.  Even then it is difficult to be certain.

For example, I obtained the yellow snowdrop 'Wandlebury Ring' and planted it is a known location.  After a year or two it vanished.  Six years later a plant with a yellow flower resembling 'Wandlebury Ring' appeared in much the same location.  Was it a miraculous recovery?  Or could it be a seedling from 'Wandlebury Ring' resembling its mother?  I cannot be certain so I am reluctant to "re-name" this snowdrop as 'Wandlebury Ring'.     

[zephirine]

Though I fully agree with Alan_b regarding the difficulty of identifying a snowdrop from its flower, the latest of your photographs, the one with the fully green inners, reminds me very much of G. 'Merlin', WSGR...

[Gail]

Absolutely agree about the difficulty of applying names to photos - I, like you zephirine, looked at the second one and thought 'Merlin' but then if you look at the leaves, WSGR's plant has much wider leaves than Merlin which emphasises the importance of considering the whole plant...

[WSGR]

I have difficulty following my own threads here!

Thank you for the replies. Alan, I agree with you. I bought some diggory and this year, suddenly, I have about 3 of them in various places. Well, I dug them up and lost the labels...

Now I'm scratching my head about the yellow ones.

Yes, I should have take a pic of the leaves.