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

[Maggi Young]

Breaking news from the home of the Leucojock Club's Founder Member and anti-galanthophile Ian Young.

Bulb Despot announces find of new 'drop 

While patrolling the garden, looking for signs of growth in his erythroniums, Bulb Despot Ian -"those snowdrops are all the same" Young has declared that he has come upon a 'drop that is different.

He can claim no credit for breeding the 'drop, since it was one that he spotted as being  "a bit odd" when visiting a famous  SSSI  ...that is, a Scottish Snowdrop Site of Interest..... and was given permission to collect a bulb.
It is a  G. nivalis with an  elongated  extra set of inners  and a double centre, with "bits" ......

Here are the first pix of it in flower after a year..... he is keen to hear what the 'Drop Fiends think of it!!

click the pix to enlarge....

[KentGardener]

I like it (but then I have always been attracted to odd looking things!)

Will be interested to see a picture in a couple of weeks once it opens some more.

Cheers

John

[Maggi Young]

Yes, John as you rightly say, it has only just opend and the outers have a way to go to be fuuly developed. You can just see enough of the interior to see that it is quite double...... quite interesting.....even here !

[art600]

I would not expect it to reach dizzying heights on EBay 

[Maggi Young]

Arthur, Ian is crushed  .... he had hopes of funding Erythronum visits abroad...... that's you off the Christmas card list 

[Jo]

I think it looks absolutely wonderful Maggi,especially the stripes on the extra outers. I'm sure Ian will easily be able to fund a whole gap year on the rakings from ebay.   Goodness me an ordinary old poc  (apologies, I don't mean this) made £150 at auction at the Gala, all you have to do is give it the right name, someone famous or something trendy 

[Oron Peri]

Maggi, have you installed an alarm system allready...
having so many Galanthophiles around

[Brian Ellis]

Well I like it too, but I had to be picked off the floor - the BD, whatever next?  I thought the upside down weather was bad enough

[Anthony Darby]

That is new. The BD must have a galanthophile's eye and wet knees. I BD should call it Galanthus 'Z-victor one'.

[Maggi Young]

How many of us ageing Brits remember "Z-Victor 1 to BD" ??  That's a blast from the TV past, Anthony!!

 Stringent security measures are already in place..... here is the BD explaing to Lily what the difference is between snowdrops and snow flakes....

[Jim McKenney]

I'm not sure Lily is paying attention to the lesson: she looks as if she sees a cat or a squirrel.   

[mark smyth]

an excellent find and time will tell when the inners swell. What are the leaves like? What was growing near it?

[Anthony Darby]

Looks like it is growing near a low wall Mark?

[David Nicholson]

Lily says. "I'm confused. First they tell me not to walk on their flowery bits but then when they point a black box at me it's OK"


By the way, I think there's every chance it's a Snowrop.

[Anthony Darby]

You could name it Galanthus 'Fancy Smyth'?