Breaking News..... Bulb Despot finds "New"snowdrop

[Anthony Darby]

It is not that there are over 1000 named cultivars which surprises me: we gardeners are never wanting names. What amazes me is that there are people who can evidently distinguish so many.

At an exam question writing weekend I listened to a conversation between two biology teachers who'd both worked as students identifying tatties growing in farmers' fields. They could each identify over 50 different varieties just by the leaves. They had to visit farms to ensure the variety being grown was what they thought was there.

[Maggi Young]

At an exam question writing weekend I listened to a conversation between two biology teachers who'd both worked as students identifying tatties growing in farmers' fields. They could each identify over 50 different varieties just by the leaves. They had to visit farms to ensure the variety being grown was what they thought was there.

Quite so, the work of "tattie rogueing" is very important to preserve the integrity of a crop .....I suppose it has value for general potato crops as well as particularly for crops of seed potatoes..... one can see people walking the fields to detect and remove rogue potato varieties ....very skilled work ....BUT.... I still very much doubt that too many 'drop experts could ID very many from a "bag of mixed widgets", so to speak 

[Anthony Darby]

It's all in the eye of the beholder, or should that be tattie, Maggi, and if you beholding a collection of snowies everyone is unique?  As for potato leaves, well, how many forms of "green with five leaflets" can you get?

[Maggi Young]

I hope you is not callin' I a tattie, Anthony   

[Anthony Darby]

Good gracious no!

[Paul T]

Well I will add another vote to the "I like it" camp.  I rather like the set of outers, set of inners, then full double inside that.  Rather speccy to me.

[Joakim B]

This is nice so well spotted Ian.
At least nice to someone that find snowdrops normally nice even if I seldom get exited over them, this came close.
Kind regards
Joakim