First flowers of the New Year -Leucojum
John Grimshaw (Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:10:15 PST)

Roy Herold wrote:

Janis has a very amusing but chilly description of finding the original
population of this stock in the Ukraine. It will appear in his forthcoming
book 'Buried Treasure', which should be a fascinating read when it appears.
'Podpolojze' is not a clone, sales bulbs being dug from the self-sowing
population in the Ruksans garden derived from Ukrainian stock, but it is
certainly a good representative of var. carpathicum.

A lengthy review of variation in Leucojum vernum will appear in the March
issue of 'The Plantsman', written by myself with input from Ena Gatenby and
Joe Sharman. It turned out that there was too much to be said for L.
aestivum to be reviewed in the same article, so that is waiting its turn.

John Grimshaw

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