Avon Resting Bulb List

[Blonde Ingrid]

The Avon Bulbs resting list is just out and there are some stunners!
e.g.
Phil Cornish
Verdure
Bill Boardman
Simply Glowing et al

Enjoy.

[Maggi Young]

I've contacted "Ding Dong" to ask if she knows whether or not Avon would like the list published here 

[Lesley Cox]

Dare I make the assumption that the names listed above are all snowdrops?

[Blonde Ingrid]

Hi Lesley, Yes they are. Here is the new cultivar selection:

Big Eyes    New hybrid, large rounded flowers and 2 huge green eyes at base of inner segments

Bill Boardman      Stunning late flowering G.plicatus with bright yellow single inner mark.

Byrkley  Selection of G.elwesii from a Shropshire garden and one of the very best of recent years with large showy flowers  boldly marked with dark green tips.

Caryl Baron   Desirable new green marked seedling found at Avon Bulbs, dark green splashedouters and dark green inner mark.

Chthonic     Nivalis, name means someone who inhabits the underworld, ghostly perhaps, this form is almost an albino, with pale creamy grey leaves, most unusual.

Crinkle Crankle    Hybrid, Seedling found in the snowdrop wood here at Avon Bulbs, large chunky flowers with unusual inner marking like the shape of an undulating East Anglian wall!

Devon Marble    From the Delamore Estate in Devon - a form of G. nivalis with amazing green streaked  inner segments like finest green Italian marble.

Gravity    Hybrid, found here at Avon Bulbs near a clump of Bill Bishop - this heavy rounded flower is of great weight and substance, a class act.  Single green apical mark.

Kencott Kali    A selection of G. elwesii from an Oxfordshire garden, this form has very long outer segments tipped in pale green.

Moortown Mighty     From David Bromley's garden, a large and robust G.plicatus hybrid with bold inner marks.

Phil Cornish     Hybrid, stunning new selection from the garden of the great galanthophile Phil Cornish. Wonderful all green inners and outers heavily marked with bright green.

Phillipe Andre Meyer    Hybrid, from Mark Brown in Normandy and named for his previous employer, this G. plicatus hybrid is one of the best Trym type seedlings, very showy and although short in height, very vigorous in the ground.

Simply Glowing     Born in Somerset, an amazing G. elwesii seedling with all green inners and outer segments of a strange glowing green, hence the name.

Trimmer    Outstanding Trym seedling with large thick outer segments with distinctive pagoda-like shape, these are beautifully splashed with green.

Verdure       Nivalis, from Normandy, an enchanting green tip with pale green washed inner marking.

They are going like hot cakes!

[mark smyth]

wish I had the money for all I fancy!

[Ding Dong]

Maggie - if anyone wants to put the list on here, that's fine.  As long as they are in UK or EU, they can order.  Sorry we can't put it on ourselves at the mo, as the phones are busy!!!

[Blonde Ingrid]

Here is the full Avon list in PDF format.

You will need to move quickly  AvonList.pdf (67.87 kB - downloaded 741 times.)

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Maxine and Ingrid - sure there will be folks grateful for this.

Even I can see there are interesting 'drops there 
http://www.avonbulbs.co.uk/

[steve owen]

I am so broke...

[Brian Ellis]

Well major panic in this house when I switched the computer on this morning to find an email saying "I expect that you had Avon's list yesterday", then I found it.  I hadn't looked at the computer since yesterday morning!  Serves me right for not concentrating on snowdrops and doing something else   The lines were, of course, busy - so more panic ensued until I eventually got through and passed my order on.  Now a nervous wreck I shall have to go and lie down in a dark room and recover

[Maggi Young]

Dear All,

Just a quick message from Alan Street at Avon Bulbs to anyone who has ordered G. nivalis 'Verdure'. The name is already in use for a green-leaved clone of this species which we found in Normandy and distributed at The Garden House Snowdrop Study Day in 2012, albeit in small numbers. Alan will provide a new name for the clone with a diffuse inner segment marking and green apical outer segment marks. Profuse apologies!

[Leena]

I was very happy to receive the list yesterday, and making the order fast I'm now getting 'Trymming'
.

[Brian Ellis]

You'll love that Leena, it's a super snowdrop

[emma T]

Sent an hour looking at the list with head gardener deciding what we should recommend big boss man to order for the collection ....happy days .

[Alan_b]

Re: "Verdure" - I think accidental re-use of existing names will be an increasing problem as the number of named snowdrops increases.