Back to South Hayes, I discovered I had some before and after pictures myself. These are of the Foxgrove Nurseries display of Galanthus South Hayes in 2003 and 2007. Apologies that my camera tends to focus on the background but I think you can still see the difference and it does seem to be losing its markings, as Mark suggested. Can twin-scaling really have a bad effect like this or have they simply made a mistake by propagating from an inferior specimen whilst selling the good ones?