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Curiouse question - is it worth to make strong cultivars from these my snowdrop selections of different species from my travels? Are they really decorative/interesting/eye-catching not only for me but also for discerning dropofans?  ;D

I suppose some of them could be very close to already existing known garden cultivars, if so - which are?
Thanks for sincere replies!
no 1 - with big round flowers
no 2 - Pagoda-type
no 3 - with green outer flower segments
no 4 - possibly infected with Phytoplasma ssp. (or possibly not infected and it is only such genetic disorder)
no 5 - with big propeller-like outers
no 6 - with broad inners and very small marks
no 7 - with long chlamys-like outers

Dima.
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and Galanthus plicatus selections...
no 8 - with bright-green very broad plastic-like structure leaves and round flowers
no 9 - with big long till 4,5 cm flower on long pedicel
no 10 - almost the same as no 9 but with more round and compact flower
no 11 - don't know why, but I like this one very much))
no 12 - my stable variegata
no 13 - with long pedicel and spherical ovary
no 14 - with curly leaf margins and basal marking on inners, compact habit
no 15 - with big round puckered flowers
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Dima, I believe that propagating these plants would be of the greatest use. It is always good to have more clones in cultivation to strengthen the gene pool with these plants which must be pretty tough  ( except no. 4 !!!) and I think that new introductions of strong plants is always good.
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I love no.4 , id grow it  ;D
Emma Thick Glasshouse horticulturalist And Galanthophile, keeper of 2 snowdrop crushing French bulldogs. I have small hands , makes my snowdrops look big :D

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I love no.4 , id grow it  ;D
Yes so would JohnF  ;)

Some of the others are very attractive too Dima.  As Maggi said new introductions of strong plants is always good - and they always come in handy for swaps ;D
Brian Ellis, Brooke, Norfolk UK. altitude 30m Mintemp -8C

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Thanks, Maggi! I agree with you - these all are from nature, should be stable in culture at least in further 100 years until get some virus or mutations ))))
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I love your green and puckered plicatus too. They look very healthy
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I love your green and puckered plicatus too. They look very healthy
Exactly, Hagen! All the old cultivars I've got from gardens were with mosaic-fragmented leaf color - the virus I suppose, especially in Trym, Wendy's Gold, I even don't know if the health plants of these cultivars exist yet somewhere.....
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No. 3 looks very curiously marked - do you have a close-up shot?
Almost in Scotland.

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No. 3 looks very curiously marked - do you have a close-up shot?

no, Alan - only this one distant view((
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Interesting to see these Dima.  I think I like them most in this order:

2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 10, 15, 7, 6
« Last Edit: January 27, 2012, 01:25:34 PM by KentGardener »
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Cannot get excited about No 4 (sorry Brian!)  but others all nice especially 6, 8 & 15.

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4 could be named "Specsavers"  :P

some lovely plants among the rest, I really like 7,8,9


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field trip to Ukraine anyone?
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Beauty is always in the eye of the person looking. I like 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 15
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

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