Ellen Hornig wrote, on 8 April: Both the beautiful rich blue A. > blanda, and 'White Splendor', have been established here for - oh - 15-20 > years? the blue ones self-sow everywhere, like crazy, ad nauseam, etc, > and > they've picked up some genes from 'White Splendor', so we now have some > large pale blues as well Does 'White Splendour' ever set seed? I have never seen a seedling of it in over 25 years. Nor, though it's grown here adjacent to long-naturalised (i.e. at least 90 yrs) normal blue A. blanda, have I seen an evident 'son' such as Ellen describes. The usual Dutch trade stock of blue blanda varies somewhat in the shade of blue but I like this as when planted out it looks like a variable, natural population rather than a selected clone as so many commercially bulbs are. Here it is planted in light grass with a good bright pink lot of Cyclamen coum and the combination is quite striking. John Grimshaw Dr. John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP