Mark, Snowdrops have not been hybridized, but discovered, either in the wild or self-sown in someone's garden. Some are very distinct - with a very unusual shape, no green markings, the beginnings of yellow, etc. If some hybridizers did take up the challenge, I am sure we would have much more diversity. Just think of Shirley poppies in their myriad of colours - there was one slightly different poppy in the millions growing in English fields, and one parson patiently sowed and selected till he transformed the flower. The reasons we don't have lots of deliberate hybrids are: small size early flowering You will note that the favourite plants hybridized by amateurs all have: big flowers with very accessible reproductive parts, and are summer flowering After all, who wants to grovel in the mud to make crosses? I do know of one person who is hybridizing: Dr Joe Harvey, but he is doing it mostly to establish affinities. Once he has proved that two species will cross, he doesn't bother to carry on further. -- Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada maritime zone 8 cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) sandy soil