Galanthus elwesii ‘Selbourne Green Tips’

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Galanthus elwesii 'Selbourne Green Tips'

Galanthus elwesii ‘Selbourne Green Tips’ Because this flower is upside down, you can’t see the fine green lines on the tips of the outer petals. It also has two bands of green on the inner petals, one of them V-shaped.

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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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