Snowdrop ID please

[mark smyth]

I think the last one is Augustus.

I agree.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Anne and Mark. Augustus it will be, I suppose the 'dimples' sold it (there you see, I'm learning). I have no idea how I came by it, could possibly be another I got from Snape Cottage.

Mark, could I ask you take a look at Reply 9 and 13 please, in 13 I posted the leaves for my 'Possibly Armine' the flowers being in 9.

[annew]

The leaves look right for Armine too. This is mine.

[annew]

Armine flower.

[Alan_b]

David, what you have could easily be seedlings or just snowdrops resembling named cultivars.  If you don't know that you ever bought 'Augustus' then I don't think it is right to assign that name to your snowdrop, although I agree there is a strong resemblance.  With snowdrops as with antiques, provenance should be all-important.     

[David Nicholson]

I went to Snape Cottage in 2010 (I can only remember that from the dates on my images taken at the time) and came back with a selection of Snowdrops the names of which have faded from my memory as they have from the labels placed by them at the time. Equally it could be that my friend, Mike Quest, gave them to me and, if I were a betting man, I doubt he would remember either. It's not that I intend to do anything else with them (not intending digging them up and knocking 'em out on fleabay!) so I shall label them as Anne suggests.

[Alan_b]

I never rely on labels as they are too easily lost by one means or another.  But in another 5 years you might want to pass-on what is by then labelled as, say, 'Armine' to a friend, forgetting the attribution is uncertain.  Your friend then passes it on to somebody else who sells some at their local AGS group and you end up with a 'false Armine' in circulation.   

[steve owen]

Agreed Alan.

[David Nicholson]

I never rely on labels as they are too easily lost by one means or another.  But in another 5 years you might want to pass-on what is by then labelled as, say, 'Armine' to a friend, forgetting the attribution is uncertain.  Your friend then passes it on to somebody else who sells some at their local AGS group and you end up with a 'false Armine' in circulation.   

At my age Alan you tend not to worry too much about what might or might not happen in five years time

[Alan_b]

So then, David, I would not bother worrying about the names of your snowdrops; just enjoy them for what they are.