Galanthus Hercule

£25.00

Freshly lifted, damp-packed, flowering-sized bulbs

Order anytime, despatch August to late autumn only.

for UK sales ONLY NOT available for export

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Description

(G. elwesii Hercule)

The flowers are also of a very good size, with just a single large green mark on the inner petals. They are held upright on strong stems with, sometimes, faintly green-tipped outer petals, a feature we have found not uncommon in G. elwesii seedlings raised here. This is a a big plant! It flowers here ahead of the spring elwesii, though later than the autumn forms, post-Christmas as a rule.

Hercule is a Galanthus elwesii clone selected by Mark Brown, in France, but from a batch of bulbs originally sourced in England. It is an especially large and robust form (of  G. elwesii monostictus) with very large leaves which seems adaptable to all sorts of soils, unlike some elwesii forms (though they all seem to do well for us here).

The name Hercule is a pun on Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian detective character, whose surname ‘Poirot’ is a homophone for the French word for a Leek (Poireau). This is in allusion to the size of the foliage. We did say that the leaves are large but importantly it has the largest flower of any of our snowdrops, this really is a monster – see our pictures showing a large hand behind one flower and in another pictures there is a comparison with a normal sized snowdrop (Blewbury Tart).

for UK sales ONLY NOT available for export

Galanthus Hercule
Galanthus Hercule