G. 'Backhouse's Spectacles'
Rather unremarkable. Tall with elongated flowers. Similar to Atkinsii.
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One of the earliest flowers to bloom snowdrops are always a welcome site. Flowering from January through to March they are a collector's obsession with a wide variation in flower and foliage form.
Although traditionally sold 'in the green' lifted after flowering, current wisdom suggests this does set growth back and we prefer to offer freshly lifted bulbs in late summer. Pot grown plants of some varieties will be available from the nursery,
Rather unremarkable. Tall with elongated flowers. Similar to Atkinsii.
£5.00One of the finest garden worthy snowdrops Flowers early. Any good soil. Part shade. H20cm.
£4.00Attractive globular flower with dimpled petals. H 15cm. Ideal conditions are cool and moist in spring with adequate light but drier and shadier in summer.
£8.00Large single white flowers, shorter than 'Magnet' but equally vigorous.
£5.00Early flowering with large elegant outer segments.Discovered by and named after the late Bill Bishop, former superintendent of the Harrogate Parks Department.
£0.00A curious but distinctive double with erect showy flowers.Dark green inner rosette with three narrow outer segments.
£0.00Unusual distinct snowdrop with yellow inner markings. Yellow markings improve if left undisturbed. H20cm.
£12.00Early flowering plicatus hybrid. Impressive broad foliage and robust flowers.
£10.00A robust G.Nivalis cultivar with green tips to the outer segments. Taller than most British stocks of Galanthus nivalis.
£0.00Single flowered hybrid cultivar. A fairly tall plant with pale green shading on the outer segments. Not particularly vigorous.
£0.00A Greatorex double. Neat rosette with a large mark on the inner segment.
£5.00Early flowering Greatorex double.15cm. Ideal conditions are cool and moist in spring with adequate light but drier and shadier in summer.
£5.00Unique and collectable elwesii hybrid. The only snowdrop with six inner and six outer segments.
£20.00Single flowered hybrid cultivar. Early flowering producing two upright scapes. Unusual variable markings.
£0.00Good large flowered early snowdrop. Aberrant form of Galanthus 'Atkinsii' with which it is often confused, but still one of the best.Our stock is a fine plant with very little aberration and may infact be the original Atkinsii. ( Both appear to originate from the clone of common snowdrop native to Southern Italy and both make excellent shows in the garden)
£4.50Greatorex double with well rounded outer petals and almost entirely green inner segments. H 18cm. Tall and vigorous.Some green marking on the tips of the outer segments.
£6.00A very fine green tipped clone of Galanthus elwesii. Bold inner segment markings.
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