Galanthus ‘Cordelia’

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Galanthus 'Cordelia'

Galanthus ‘Cordelia’ I cheated a bit by including this one, because I am only 90% certain this is the correct name, as part of the label (taken on a separate photo) was obscured. But it was so intriguing I wanted to include it. This is a Greatorex double. According to this website, Heyrick Greatorex “used pollen from nivalis flore pleno and crossed it with Galanthus plicatus to produce a range of hybrid doubles. The resulting plants were tall, vigorous and robust and with their large, regular and neat flowers caused something of a sensation.” He named them all after female characters in Shakespeare.

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

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