No G. fosteri. Well, maybe. I did buy some seeds and some germinated, but I've just been outside staring at the label, and there is no leaf showing yet. There is a group of us here in Victoria who collect snowdrops, but I don't think any of the others have fosteri. You can have a good idea of what people are growing by seeing what seeds are offered in the various seed exchanges. NARGS (North American Rock Garden Society) usually has only one kind of Galanthus seed offered each year. I just looked at three old seedlists. One year it was G. elwesii, one year G. nivalis and the third year G. plicatus. Fosteri hasn't ever been offered in the Alpine Garden Society or Scottish Rock Garden Club seed exchanges. (I think I'm safe in saying that without looking back through almost 40 years of seedlists.) The snowdrops that are grown here in British Columbia are elwesii (the commonest), nivalis and woronowii. They are sold in garden centres, though woronowii isn't sold very often. Some of us who buy seeds from Europe will also have plicatus, ikariae and reginae-olgae. Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada cool mediterranean climate moderate dry summers, moderate rainy winters 68 cm rain (27 in)