Galanthus 'Lerinda'

[annew]

Does anyone have any information about this snowdrop? I confess I need it because I'm about to list one on ebay, so don't feel bad if you'd rather not assist. I have a photo of my plant, but didn't make notes about flowering time , size etc. Any help would be appreciated.

[KentGardener]

All I can offer is that Paddy posted pic in 2007 Anne.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=300.msg7215#msg7215

[snowdropman]

Harveys Garden Plants website contained the following description in 2010 “Selected in 1970 by Ken Aslet formerly of Kew. January flowering with large flowers. Clumps up quickly.”

[annew]

Crumbs! That was quick! Thanks, guys. That was about as much as I'd found so far too.

[Paddy Tobin]

Anne,

My photographs, noted above by John, was from Altamont Gardens in County Carlow, Ireland, at the end of February or beginning of March, 2007. I purchased one bulb at Altamont in 2005 and had 8 in the garden last season.

In "Snowdrops", page 224, there is the following entry: "Hybrid Cultivars with Single Flowers: One of more margins explicative: ... 'Lerinda' was selected in the 1970s by the former superintendent of the Rock Garden at Wisley, Ken Aslet (pers. comm. R. & D. Baker 2001), and listed for the first time by the Snowdrop Company in 2001."

I don't know if that is of any help to you. It is not an outstanding snowdrop in the garden and, considering my notes above, it does not increase at a great rate either.

Paddy

Post Scriptum: After posting the above, I have looked back over snowdrop photographs from the garden for the last three years and don't have one for G. 'Lerinda'. Obviously, it does not catch me eye, though I do know exactly where it is growing and can picture it in my mind, to the edge of a patch of hellebores and close to a Magnolia stellata 'Rosea King'.

I will have to photograph it this year. Perhaps, it is not increasing in numbers because I am not giving it enough attention. P.

[annew]

Thanks, Paddy. That seems to be the sum total of information available for this variety! It looks like a nice flower from my photo, but obviously didn't stick in my memory either.

[Thomas Seiler]

I just found this photograph of 'Lerinda' , which was taken on February 25th 2010. From one bulb which I had bought from The Snowdrop Company in 2003 I received 11 flowers in 2010, having given away one bulb in 2007. I consider it as a very good variety for garden use. Surely not breathtaking on sight, but of good proportions, increasing steadily and always upright even in the worst of weather.

[annew]

Thank you, Thomas. It certainly looks very good in a group.

[Paddy Tobin]

Anne,

Just caught this reawakening of the thread. Here is a photograph from 2009. Paddy

[Maggi Young]

I just found this photograph of 'Lerinda' , which was taken on February 25th 2010. From one bulb which I had bought from The Snowdrop Company in 2003 I received 11 flowers in 2010, having given away one bulb in 2007. I consider it as a very good variety for garden use. Surely not breathtaking on sight, but of good proportions, increasing steadily and always upright even in the worst of weather.

Thomas, you list exactly what one would wish for in a good plant.

It is certainly a shapely flower  on a good stem..... more than half the battle, in my opinion.

[Thomas Seiler]

Thank you, Maggi   
I esteem it highly ...  and so does the friend who got a bulb when he admired it in my garden some years ago.

[annew]

I must pay it more attention this season!