Description
(syn. elwesii Godfrey Owen)
A superb elwesii seedling flowering in mid-season and making perfectly balanced and even flowers with six symmetrically arranged outer petals and six inners also. The flowers look like perfect wide lampshades when they open. This really is the most gorgeous of plants and it is highly sought-after.
The outers are cupped, whilst the inners are tipped with a touch of green, the green mark being split, by the apical notch, into two smaller dots. There may sometime be a hint of green at the base also. This is the only snowdrop with both six inners and six outers.
It is a neat and pleasing, mid-sized, mid-season elwesii – one of the most distinct elwesii introductions of recent years and it just has “something” about it, that marks it out as a very attractive and special plant.
Godfrey Owen was found in the Shropshire garden of Mrs Margaret Owen, near Shrewsbury, around 1996 and named, by her, after her late husband.
PC (RHS) 2006, AM (RHS) 2009, FCC (RHS) 2011
for UK sales ONLY
NOT available for export to E.U., Japan, Norway, Switzerland, U.S.A. etc.
