A new Leucojum selection

[mark smyth]

Saw this new Leucojum selection at Harrowgate Show on Friday. A UK nursery was selling them.

[David Nicholson]

A typo perhaps, or an over enthusiastic nurseryman?

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1143

[Gerry Webster]

.......... an over enthusiastic nurseryman?

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1143

Down-to-earth perhaps?

[Anthony Darby]

Did it pull people in?

[Hans J]

Hi all ,

"Gravetye Giant" is a old cultivar ....it is mentioned in the book of F.C.Stern ( 1956 )
It is a hybrid or a form of G.aestivum ...
Here are two pics from my garden :

In germany we say :
"Alter Käse in neuer Schachtel"
this means : old cheese in a new box

Hans

[Paul T]

Hans,

I think he was making fun of the spelling, which ended up as Gravity, a whole different thing to Gravetye.

Mark,

There are good and bad things to that possible name.  You could either say that it was very attractive, or alternatively that it sucks. 

[Hans J]

Ahhhh ...thank you Paul !
Now I have understand the joke 

[Anthony Darby]

I think it's just lost like a Chinese whisper. A bit like staring bewildered at a box on a maths desk labelled "student compass" when it clearly held a set of compasses and in no way could I find North with it!

[fleurbleue]

Gravetye Giant flowers later and bigger than aestivum.

[Roma]

I remember a few interesting labels from my time working on a local plant nursery before I went to the Cruickshank Garden.
Skruffularia was obvious but Thuja 'Frogbelly' was a mystery till I found Thuja occidentalis 'Froebelii' as a synonym for 'Hoveyi'
( Hillier's Manual of Trees & Shrubs 1974 ).

[Paul T]

Roma,

Well that is sort of round and green, so "frogbelly" seems suitable as well. 

[frits.kp]

I wonder if someone have told him the name over the phone.
"Grave e tye Giant."
"What did you say Gravity?"

[Anthony Darby]

Now 'gravy tie' is something I can empathise with!

[Mark Griffiths]

each packet comes with a sachet of Higg's Bosons.

[Michael J Campbell]