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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #105 on: March 06, 2014, 12:03:34 AM »
I could say "No the world does not - so I'll take it off your hands for you" but I would be lying.  Oh ye ye ye!
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #106 on: March 06, 2014, 03:14:00 PM »
Galanthus plicatus 'Warham Rectory'.
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #107 on: March 06, 2014, 04:04:02 PM »
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I'm confused now as to whether you think Fieldgate Forte and Fieldgate Fortissimo are the same plan (unlikely, since Colin Mason will have named each) or whether you believe your source of supply has sold/given you the wrong plant, or ....?
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #108 on: March 06, 2014, 04:36:10 PM »
Very simply ... if anyone bought Fieldgate Fortissimo from Avon it isn't. Its Fieldgate Forte
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #109 on: March 06, 2014, 04:45:56 PM »
And does Fortissimo actually exist, or was it, as I suggested earlier, just a mis-identification from a fat Forte?
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #110 on: March 06, 2014, 04:48:29 PM »
Peron C thinks there is  ;D
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #111 on: March 06, 2014, 05:02:49 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on March 06, 2014, 04:48:29 PM
Person C thinks there is  ;D
Such fun  !
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #112 on: March 06, 2014, 06:28:23 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on March 06, 2014, 04:45:56 PM
And does Fortissimo actually exist, or was it, as I suggested earlier, just a mis-identification from a fat Forte?
Notes from 2011
Galanthus 'Fieldgate Fortissimo '.
Large distinct green marking on the outer segments. Broad spathe valves. 'Fieldgate Forte' was usurped by seedlings that germinated within the clump.
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #113 on: March 06, 2014, 06:36:49 PM »
At first there was FIELDGATE FORTE. It has only a few green lines on the tops of the outers. But a few of us got FIELDGATE FORTISSIMO (under the name F. FORTE), with big green blotches on the outers. Last year Avon Bulbs delivered FIELDGATE FORTISSIMO out.
This is the small story.
If anyone would like to swap FIELDGATE FORTISSIMO....???

Here is "only" FIELDGATE FORTE.
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #114 on: March 06, 2014, 06:38:55 PM »
This is the spathe of Fieldgate Fortissimo Forte

Brian have you seen Fieldgate Fortissimo?
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #115 on: March 06, 2014, 06:57:12 PM »
Does anyone have a photo of leaves and flowers for elwesii Robin Hall? Mine just open this week have narrow glaucous leaves with large flowers. Weather permitting I'll take photos tomorrow. I could have done it today but although it was 12c and flowers were wide open it was very dull and pelting down
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #116 on: March 06, 2014, 07:08:40 PM »
I was going to say I'll check mine tomorrow, Mark - but I think it is Robin Hood not Robin Hall - easy to get muddled, I'm afraid!
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #117 on: March 06, 2014, 07:09:19 PM »
It's good to hear Fortissimo is not a figment of the imagination - such a promising name.
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #118 on: March 07, 2014, 10:34:14 AM »
elwesii Robin Hall?
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Re: Galanthus in March 2014
« Reply #119 on: March 07, 2014, 10:52:23 AM »
Quote from: mark smyth on March 07, 2014, 10:34:14 AM
elwesii Robin Hall?

If it is, I can see no features that mark it out of the ordinary run of nameless elwesiis except, perhaps, that it produces two scapes per bulb.
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