Yellow Snowdrops

[ChrisB]

Glad it's not something I'm doing to Lady Elphinstone then. Last two years they were yellow but came up green so far this year.  Going to put them in the garden to see if they turn back next year....

[Tony Willis]

Would this be true of the others in this group and if so what are the merits of having a whole host of plants that look the same all with different names?

Money,apart from ones with bits of green on you could sow seed and end up with lots indistinguishable from most of the named ones. In the end it is harmless and if it gives people pleasure then that is okay.

[Brian Ellis]

A present from a great gardener yesterday, I can't find any reference to it but he said he got it as "Late Limey" but it doesn't look very limey!  Anyone know anything about it?

[Mariette]

Sorry, no. But due to biographical connections I was very glad to receive this one last year.

´Rheingold´

[johnw]

Sorry, no. But due to biographical connections I was very glad to receive this one last year. ´Rheingold´

Nice to see & timely as well Mariette.  Are you by chance related to a Rheinmaiden?  Just heard Götterdämmerung in Toronto on the weekend so I trust you didn't have to use their elaborate tactics to buy that nivalis!

john

[vivienne Condon]

What a wonderful thread Brian, thank you for that list of Yellows I can't believe there are so many I love Ronald Mackenzie. Even if you think some of the yellows are the same with different names. I feel quite deprived here as we only grow Spindlestone Surprise, Wendy's Gold, Sandersonii and from Otto Lady Elphinstone. I think like Maggii I will have to win Tattslotto ticket.
Thank you again.

[vivienne Condon]

I left off Primrose Warburg from our tiny list.

[Mariette]

Nice to see & timely as well Mariette.  Are you by chance related to a Rheinmaiden?  Just heard Götterdämmerung in Toronto on the weekend so I trust you didn't have to use their elaborate tactics to buy that nivalis!

john

 Buy? Phoo! A present of a kind goddess, of course!

[Alan_b]

Being a bit colour blind, I am never confident I see the same colours as other people but this one looked yellow to me.  It was on show at the Harlow AGS event earlier today.

[johnw]

Buy? Phoo! A present of a kind goddess, of course!

Does she ship by Air Valhalla by chance?  ; )

[Brian Ellis]

What a wonderful thread Brian

You are very welcome, as always it is a combined effort from other forumists too.  To be honest I am staggered at how many have 'come out of the woodwork'. 

It is interesting that some are very easily obtainable whilst some are almost the stuff of legends, for years I had heard of a Norfolk yellow called 'Goldcrest' and could not track down any other information about it, amazingly I now know of at least one other grower other than the finder, that it is still in existence, who found it and where they live!  It gives hope for all those other snowdrops that seem to exist as just names from the past.

[johnw]

Being a bit colour blind, I am never confident I see the same colours as other people but this one looked yellow to me.  It was on show at the Harlow AGS event earlier today.
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Now you have me worried Alan.  To me the markings and ovaries on that one are an extremely pale lima bean green.   Others?

john

[Alan_b]

...To me the markings and ovaries on that one are an extremely pale lima bean green.

Many's the time I have seen slides of purportedly 'yellow' snowdrops that do not look even remotely yellow to me.  It's clearly nowhere near as yellow as the flower in the background; perhaps you are right, John. 

[Brian Ellis]

Perhaps you prefer something like this Alan.  This is 'Gold Dust' - aptly named!

[Brian Ellis]

With thanks to Gert Jan here is 'Bohemia Gold'