So very pretty

Love that plant! And what is the one lower and on the right hand side??? And the one in the upper right? They all look nice! Rosie

Lower right - Pretty Miss Kelly

Upper right - Blue Mist

... and Island Hideaway

Thanks! Can't show me a pix of one and not expect me to ask about the other!!! lol Rosie

You must have quite a collection Aegis! How many do you have? They are certainly beautiful!

I'm down to around 75 varieties at this point ... from maybe 150 at one point.

I am trying to downsize to the number that I can take care of well, ... and which varieties grow well for me.

Wow! I got up to around 20 and thought it was getting a bit excessive. I got rid of about 5 or 6, but now I'm back up to 18. I give up!

I can't imagine all the repotting and watering you must have to do each day.

I figure about 5 gallons a week.

I don't repot alot ...

Jersey Snow Flakes and and Jersey Snow Drops on a last Convention

Irina ...

Thank-you for your photos of the plants Jersey Snow Flakes and Snow Drops.

It looks like I may have one of each ... though I thought that they were both Jersey Snow Flakes.

One of the plants was propagated from a leaf (Jersey Snow Flakes), while the other came to me as a young starter plant. There are obvious differences between the plants, as Snow Flakes is more refined in appearance and lies flatter and more sym- metrical, while the other has a distinctly less well-behaved look, and the foliage is not so shiny.

Jersey Snow Drops ???

Your photo gives me hope of having a specimen of (2) nice varieties.

Thanks again ...

Jersey Snow Flakes (9820) 12/14/2007 (R. Kurzynski)
Single-semidouble white pansy/white sparkle overlay. Variegated medium
green and white, plain, quilted. Standard

Jersey Snow Drops (9819) 12/14/2007 (R. Kurzynski) Semidouble-double
white pansy. Variegated medium green and white, plain, quilted. Standard

So it would seem that the difference is in the number of petals, more in JSDrops and the sparkle overlay only in JSFlakes?

I looked and looked at the plants in your photo, Irina, and thought I saw more petals in the Drops plant, but I couldn't be sure. The leaves looked the same in both to me. I would assume they are "sister" plants from the same cross?

Very pretty whites, both of them. I'd have a hard time deciding which to grow.

Ohhh, Anne it's easy!!!! I would have one of EACH! lol Rosie

PS. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!!!!!

The blossoms on both plants look fairly identical, ... though there's one on the "Snow Drops" plant that's not a single. There's a sparkle overlay on both sets of blossoms.

The leaves, OTOH, are different. As I mentioned, ... those on the "Snow Flakes" plant are flatter and shinier, with a very neat edge variegation. The other plant's leaves don't lay as flat, are less shiny (i.e. fuzzier), and have a less precise variegation. I kept looking at the other plant (Snow Drops ???), wondering when it was going to shape-up its foliage ...

I saw these three whites at the convention but thanks, Irina, for pointing out they weren't all the same! I guess I just looked at the "Jersey," & because they looked alike, took them to all be Snow Flakes. As lovely as they were, my thought at the time was we need more whites in the AV world. It seems there just aren't that many white varieties available. I know there aren't very many (like one!) in this house. I need to change that!

And aegis, your plants are very lovely! Great growing.

Terri

Ahhhhh,,,that reminds me of some vintage whites. Another short walk down Memory Lane! Butterfly White was one that comes to mind. And of course my 1st white I ever owned---White Madonna, my favorite. I know she is nothing special in the scheme of things, but she will always be my favorite! Rosie

IMHO the main difference is in an inflorescence. The Snow Flakes have pretty much the regular bloomstalk and loosely positioned flowers - just like any regular AV. Snow Drops have short pedicels - the small stems that connect the blossom to the bloomstalk (peduncle). As a result - the flowers do not spread evenly on the top of the crown - they come as a tight snowballs on the top of each bloomstalk. Interesting is that the length of of the bloomstalk depends on the culture, while the length of a pedicel is specific to the variety. There is some difference in the shape of the flowers - one othe varieties is has narrower petals - but that's the first thing that you see when you get to the table.