In 2008, a friend mailed me starters of several snowdrop cultivars. Unfortunately, three of the labels became separated from the bulbs in transit, so I now have three pots and three labels, but don't know which label goes in which pot.
These are
- Galanthus 'Desdemona'
- Galanthus 'Limetree'
- Galanthus alpinus bortkewitschianus
According to Potterton's , Desdemona is "the tallest and largest flowering form of the Greatorex doubles", so that one should be a shoo-in when it flowers. (My fingers are crossed.)
But how can I tell the other two apart? I've tried Google Images, but the disconnect on many webpages between images and the names of the plants connected causes too many false hits. Another issue is that many online photos of snowdrops simply show a patch of them in flower without detailing the characteristics that distinguish different cultivars and species. Would anybody like to point me to reliable, informative pictures or written descriptions of the differences among these three snowdrops?
