Galanthus that are truly easy to recognise!

[Brian Ellis]

It's interesting to speculate how many snowdrops you would need if you restricted yourself to distinctive snowdrops you could identify at a glance.  60 might be about right to meet that criterion.

Sounds like a good start to a new thread, I'd start off with Diggory, Swanton, Wasp and Lapwing.

NB Dec 2016  The final list in 2013 starts here:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11041.msg287817#msg287817

[Leena]

Sounds like a good start to a new thread, I'd start off with Diggory, Swanton, Wasp and Lapwing.

I'll be following eagerly this conversation (being a novice snowdrop enthusiast .

[Maggi Young]

Right-oh- here's your new thread............

[annew]

We need somebody brave enough to take all the labels out of their snowdrops then be able to put them all back again a year later. In the right order.

[Brian Ellis]

Right-oh- here's your new thread............

Well then I had better add Green Mile, I'm sure I'd recognize it if I saw it

[Alan_b]

Lady Beatrix Stanley has got to be on the list; easily distinguishable from any other double.  And another lady at the other end of the price scale would be Elizabeth Harrison

[Hagen Engelmann]

I also know a good number of unique snowdrops.
But we should not start with all kinds of flower shapes together at the same moment.
There is a good system in the net

[johnw]

Well I suppose I could add these ones as long as the test was in Canada:

Hans Guck
Hill Poe
Anglesey Abbey
Blewbury Tart
Lady Elphinstone


johnw

[David Nicholson]

Is there a hidden assumption here that they all look the same?

[WimB]

Is there a hidden assumption here that they all look the same?

Of course not David, where did you get that idea?? 

[MR GRUMPY]

I would add 'Trymposter','South Hayes',You could blindfold me,and spin me around three times,and i would still pick them out.....

[Wim Snoeijer]

......and to identify a Galanthus cultivar you need a key, or a Galanthomanic that has the knowledge to put the labels back to the right cultivar.

But a start to identify a cultivar might be the key to the Cultivar Groups in Galanthomania (inner cover) and in the same book is a key to identify the cultivars that can be classified in the Galanthus Gold Group (page 29).

Making a key is big fun and gives a clue how different similar cultivars are. I like to puzzle with keys and the key I started for the Galanthus Imperial Group is quite a challange. So for the fun I include the key for the Galanthus Double Group but only the first part.

Perhaps others like to puzzle with keys too.

Best wishes,

Wim

[emma T]

I had to relabel all mine when the dog ate the labels , he even chewed up the aluminum ones little sod . I must say I do chose my snowdrops carefully and plant them carefully so none that could possibly get muddled are not close . Also I like the weird and wonderful types so maybe they are a little easier to pick out

[Alan_b]

......and to identify a Galanthus cultivar you need a key, or a Galanthomanic that has the knowledge

In general, yes, but some cultivars are so instantly recognisable that you don't need a key or a photographic memory or even a very close look in order to identify them.  There aren't many like this so there is some point in trying to name them - the ones you could identify almost at a glance.

Steve, I don't own 'Tryposter' but I had always assumed from the name that it was difficult to tell apart from 'Trym'. 

[Wim Snoeijer]

Yes, correct Alan, for many cultivars indeed. But for too many even key does not work either. That is why you find in Galanthus Golden Group key 16 on page 31 more names then just one. You can also see that in the part I posted in the Galanthus Double Group key, more then one name at a key. I think the ICNCP is quite clear about "similar" cultivars.

Best wishes,
Wim