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Three years a go I bought a pack of six named varieties of strawberries to give me a long season of fruit! I have colected runners each year since and grown on from these original six.
I planted my last allotment up with them but couldn't bear to uproot them when I left as they had just been recently planted!

The problem is I would now like to grow one specific variety from the bunch and I don't know it's name! Funnily enough I think I would know the variety if I saw it!
It has a distinctive white longish neck,with the sepals held high, large fruit and is very sweet!
If you think you might know what it is, please tell me and I will google the name and should be able to find it by looks alone!

Thank you to all you grapes in anticipation!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
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ah, sorry snadger, I'm just like you, I never remember verieties, I just try not to buy F1's and i know which ones are earlys which ones are lates, and thats about it, couldnt even begin to give names to verieties, good luck tho.

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take only what you need
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What, strawberries have names?

Sorry Snadger, I have grown Elsanta, Ostara and Cambridge favourite but the slugs or something ate them all. think the Elsanta grew big, sweet fruits

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

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Nope, googled all three of those varieties and no joy I'm afraid!

Thanks anyway Shirl!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Hi Snadger,

I've compiled a list (ignore the ones you've searched) for my own research on finding the 2-4 best. Hopefully it's one of them, so sorry if not. Would be interested to know which it is if you ever find out the name. Good luck.

Alice
Aromel
Cambridge Favourite
Cambridge Vigour (Old traditional)
Calypso
Elsanta (replacing Cambridge)
Emily
Eros
Flamenco (Everbearer variety)
Florence
Hapil
Honeoye (early variety)
Irresistible (supposedly best for flavour???)
Maxim (big fruit??)
Ostera
Pegasus
Rambling Cascade (hanging basket)
Rhapsody
Robunda Perpetual
Royal Sovereign (very old traditional)
Senga Gigana (egg size fruit)
Sonata (next improvement to replace Elsanta)
Sophie (very late season)
Symphony

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Nope non of these either! Aromel is the closest in looks...but not quite! Thanks anyway veg4881!

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to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

What about Marshmallow?

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Wellie

Give it some....

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I sent away for a pack of strawberries, early - Gorella, mid season - Polka, and late - Tago.
Hope you find it.

Jim

Found these??

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Nope...can't find and can't find!!! The search goes on......many thanks!

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LOL - where do you find them Snadger, thought the strawb variety was Marshmellow? prolly wrong though (having a really bad brain day)

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Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Hi Snadger

Oh this is a good game… if you discover it after this buildup you’ll cause a run on it, it’ll be like Northern Rock revisited… (or THAT bored bean…).

Will you remember it if somebody comes up with the NAME only or is a PIC the vital clue?
Do you remember where you originally got them?
Can you revisit the earlier allotment? (at night )
Is it early, main, late or perpetual?

Two Search suggestions which you may have already have tried…
a) If you Google “strawberries” on IMAGES you get about 250,000 pics of strawberries, if you find one that looks right and go to the site some are named ) others just talk about cream and sugar )
b) This is territory for N American universities, they love stuff like this so there are endless lists of varieties e.g.
http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/fac...varieties.html
but I think they possibly use different names.
So c): From one extreme to t’other, as you say it was 3 years ago (2004?) it’s might be worth including the year in any Google search as particular varieties tend to rise and fall in prominence… e.g. a 2004 search the following seem to have been in evidence:
“Honeoye is an early ripening variety which can be relied upon to produce a good crop of quality berries of fine flavour and suitable for freezing and dessert use.
Elsanta is a new, very productive variety with a firm, well-flavoured medium sized fruit in early mid-summer.
Tamella produces superb dark red, juicy fruits. Distinctive long and pointed, with good flavour. Heavy-cropping over a long period. Good for freezing.
Royal sovereign is a popular summer fruit with many culinary uses. It produces large scarlet berries of excellent flavour in early summer.
Rhapsody has an RHS Award of Garden Merit and is a superb late season dessert variety producing large glossy red fruit that is juicy, firm and flavoursome.
Pegasus also has an RHS Award of Garden Merit. Sweet, firm and juicy, this is an exceptionally heavy cropping late main season variety. Good-sized fruit ready mid-summer. Strong disease resistance.”

Keep going Sherlock! Puff on the pipe and play the violin and you can crack this!

Dr W.

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Ok, I've had a bit tof a troll through google images until I got sick! The nearest I could find is the picture below, which if you notice, has a long whitish neck. No variety name with it though, and the one I remember was 'meatier'!
The search goes on!

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to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Snadger
I've got some that look exactly like that but I can't remember what they are either, they are late fruiters, fruiting now, quite straggly looking plants unlike the ones like Cambridge that put out lots of huge green leaves. Very sweet fruit.
So, I remember buying Cambridge, Hapil and Elsanta and also grew some from seed which were Temptation and one other one beginning with S, other than that I had some remotant strawberries from Victoriana.
Don't think I had any others so it might be one of these?
Sue

hi Snadger

LOL, yes strawberries get a bit tedious after the first quarter of a million…. But that’s a very good image, very distinctive, if not one that Sue's suggested perhaps try sending it to PYO farmers?

Once traced I reckon it should be re-named Snadger’s Choice!

Good luck with the hunt.

bb