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I enclose a photo of a double G. which looks like G. flore pleno except that it has bigger flowers and a different looking inner petal from the others growing in my garden. Is this the result of a virus or is it quite common?
'Lerinda' looks good, Leena. A nice strong scape too, to keep the flowers from flopping. It appears to have good presence in the garden.
It's hard to tell from the photo but nivalis flore pleno can show a lot of variability in the flower form. This can vary from year to year and also according to the maturity of the bulb, quite apart from any more fundamental variability in different clones. As with any snowdrop of interest, the thing to do is to keep it under observation and find out if it does the same unusual thing each year
... I was concerned when it was suggested to me that this might be a virus.
Here is a G. p. 'Diggory' that started to throw its sheath up in late December. Hang in. Rick