Victorian flower ID please - hypericum and snowdrop? Any ideas?

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  1. Rhododendron sp/cultivar, or hybrid....pic shows one more commonly called Azalea.
  2. Galanthus sp....a Snowdrop.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• OwThatHurt Posts: 5

  February 2020

  Thanks Silver surfer - could well be an Azalea! 
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2020

  Silver surfer said:

  1. Rhododendron sp/cultivar, or hybrid....pic shows one more commonly called Azalea.
  2. Galanthus sp....a Snowdrop.

  Just what I was going to say ... 😊 

  
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• OwThatHurt Posts: 5

  February 2020

  Thanks Dove, I'm convinced...  Still don't know how they could be in flower at the same time, though!
  

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• Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732

  February 2020

  Artistic licence
  

  Southampton 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2020

  Mrs-R3 said:

  Artistic licence
  

  I was just going to say that too ... and I’m an artist 👩🏻‍🎨 

  
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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  Up here in Scotland all our snowdrops are still in flower.
  We also have Rhododendron praecox and Rhodo mucronulatum Cornell Pink in flower.
  Down south in Cornwall many Rhodos will be flowering as well as a few late snowdrops.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=rhododendron+praecox&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjr1aeq2-3nAhUDiFwKHVrZB40Q_AUoAXoECA8QAw&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Rhododendron+mucronulatum+'Cornell+Pink'&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjehLiA2-3nAhXXMMAKHW0wDmwQ_AUoAnoECBUQBA&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• OwThatHurt Posts: 5

  February 2020

  I like it better if artistic licence isn't required - and perhaps Silver Surfer has provided the answer - thank you all. 
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  February 2020

  They might also have symbolic significance. The snowdrop, at least: consolation, innocence, virginity and rebirth. A little here.
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  February 2020

  I'd agree - definitely an azalea in the first pic.
  My snowdrops only start to flower in mid to late February  - and many azaleas are flowering in March, so it's not that unusual for them to be flowering together. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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