Help with identification

[Ant-k]

Found this picture on the alpine garden society website of the Avon plant stand at the RHS plant and Pototoe fair..can anyone make out what the front variety is,I just can't quite make out what the labels says?

[Ant-k]

Another picture of one I really like
Big Eyes

[Maggi Young]

Looks like 'Beluga' Anthony - we need "DingDong's" help on this one....

[Brian Ellis]

...or Bebugs?

[Maggi Young]

In my ignorance I've never heard of either! 

[Matt T]

'Deluge' perhaps?

[mark smyth]

'Big Eyes' is great because it not only looks good but it flowers just as others are going over

[Lori S.]

Found this picture on the alpine garden society website of the Avon plant stand at the RHS plant and Pototoe fair..can anyone make out what the front variety is,I just can't quite make out what the labels says?

I too see "Beluga".

[art600]

I found this snowdrop in a pot of ordinary snowdrops and wonder if it can be identified as a named drop

[Ding Dong]

Hi Ant-K & Maggie - The name was definately Beluga, and I've checked with Alan, it is an elwesii - we haven't had any available for sale yet, but hopefully will have next year 

[Maggi Young]

Hi Maxine - thanks for your help - we needed the assistance of an "Avon Representative" there !!

So, now we know that Galanthus elwesii 'Beluga' is a tasty number which m ay soon be available.... good news, I'm sure 

I hope Alan S.  was amused at the prospect of us  straining to make out the name from the photo!

Cheers,

 Maggi

[mark smyth]

I found this snowdrop in a pot of ordinary snowdrops and wonder if it can be identified as a named drop

Garden centre or in snowdrops you have already bought as a named snowdrop? Its leaves look like a plicatus hybrid

[Carolyn]

Can anyone identify this snowdrop? It was given to me by friends who have a big clump in their garden.  It has increased well and has nice leaves.

[Alan_b]

Carolyn, bit difficult to tell for certain but the leaves look to me like Galanthus plicatus.  The type with two marks is sometimes described as ssp. byzantinus but it is such a long time since this species came to the UK that the two marks could easily result from hybridization rather than the area of ancestral origin.  Plicatus snowdrops are often vigorous but there is no reason to suppose what you have is a named cultivar.  And if it is not named already it would not be named now because it is too easy to find similar-looking ones in a naturalised plicatus population. 

[Carolyn]

Thank you, Alan