I have been following the discussion with some interest, after Jim Waddick's rather definitive pronouncement :), but have only today got round to checking the flowers in the garden here. Had I been asked I would have said that the back of the outer perianth segments was partially tinted with a dusky pink colour, and I'm sure that that's how they were earlier (it is most intense in the centre of the segment, with the basal portion being white). Today, however, the pink was very faint indeed, and on the older flowers it had disappeared completely. This is towards the end of their season, and the weather has been warm and dry for much of the period. So I do think there are conditions under which the flowers could appear almost pure white. 'White Splendour' is a well-known clone, propagated by division (as is evident from received tubers), and I suspect not much troubled by rogues in the stock. It well deserves its Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. John Grimshaw Dr. John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 -----