Galanthus

Relatively undistinguished flowers with an intermediate mark. Often two flowers per bulb. Short-growing with narrow leaves. Usefully it comes into flower late in the season. A very vigorous plicate hybrid snowdrop which forms large clumps. Found by Dr Alan Leslie.

Small, neat flowers with the inner marks almost like those of G. plicatus subsp. byzantinus. A short and very late hybrid which flowers at the same time as ‘Washfield Warham’. Slow to increase but a very useful addition to a collection. From a garden in Lincolnshire which has produced some good forms including ‘Nothing Special’ and ‘Robyn Janey’

Really dark green markings in a very neat, fully double flower. It is a relatively short plant. It is very slow growing. It was found by Mrs Wrightson in her garden in Kent in 1975.

An ikariae cross selected by Simon Savage. A large dark heart-shaped apical mark and suffused green below. Pale green leaves with recurved tips.

Wonderfully scented and one of the best forms I have selected. Vigorous. Short plants produce masses of large flowers of a very clean white, with a superb scent. A wonderfully vigorous snowdrop. Mid-season. Tried and tested. From a garden in Lincolnshire.

An incredibly vigorous hybrid, clumping ferociously. Plicatus x nivalis.

The large flowers can be 3 x 3, 4 x 4 and 5 x 5. A complex hybrid with very blue-grey leaves. Slow to increase. 25cm. Mid to late season. Found by and named by Margaret Owen from whom it came. Still very rarely found in collections.

This snowdrop is very distinct in that it has a long pedicel and very long outer petals. The marking on the inner has two long indistinct green marks at the base as well as the apical mark. It is relatively slow growing but as it always has two flowers per bulb it quickly makes a good show. It is named for the niece of the famous galanthophile Joe Sharman.

Massive, well-shaped flowers on stout stems. A good, new, vigorous cultivar.

This is named for St Anne’s church in Sutton Bonington near Nottingham but it was actually found in north Norfolk!

A pterugiform hybrid of G. gracilis and G.’Trym’ which turned up with Veronica Cross and is named for the leader of the pack. In appearance is intermediate between the parents.

A green-tipped hybrid, probably involving ‘Viridapice’ and a plicate, often with two flowers per bulb. Spathe normal.

Tall, vigorous with small green tips on the slightly pterugiform outers. The result of a deliberate cross between G. p ‘Trym’ x G. n ‘Poculiformis’

Named by Bowles for Dick Trotter, a plicate hybrid with diffuse basal mark. Chunky.

A new double elwesii hybrid with nicely-shaped flowers. Early. Variable numbers of inners.

A vigorous, narrow leaved form with fuzzy eyespots and slightly green tipped.

This is a very large distinctly tall elwesii form with a mostly green inner. This historic cultivar is not offered very often. It was named for Fred Buglass and distributed by Primrose Warburg.