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

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  February 2020

  Do you think the top one could be Lonicera fragrantissima?  Although it's not quite that yellow.
  

  East Anglia

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  February 2020

  I'd go with azalea too.  I have a pink azalea and snowdrops in flower right now.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  Asarum said:

  Do you think the top one could be Lonicera fragrantissima?  Although it's not quite that yellow.
  

  Definitely not Lonicera fragrantissima...flowers are a different shape.
  See pics below.100% positive on Rhododendron./Azalea.
  Compare to Rhododendron Kathleen below ..which shows slight orange on it as painting.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• OwThatHurt Posts: 5

  February 2020

  Thanks to Fire for the link - interesting.  And to Fairygirl and Obelixx for correcting seasonality - my London snowdrops are long gone, though.
  

  
  

  I'm convinced on Azalea, but thanks to Asarum for the the lonicera suggestion!
  

  
  

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