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When to buy and plant snowdrops
I am wanting to buy some snowdrops and I realise that it is around this time that you can buy them "in the green" but when I was at a local garden centre today the staff advised that I should buy bulbs in August/September for planting later in the year.
What would anyone recommend?
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Well, that's garden centres for you ..............
or some of them at least.
Buy them in the green sometime over the next 6 weeks and plant them straight away ... virtually guaranteed to grow.
You can buy clumps of growing snowdrops from some places that have 'snowdrop walks' etc.
If you want more than that I recommend Broadleigh Bulbs ... guaranteed not gathered from the wild and I've had very good service from them
http://www.broadleigh-bulbs-spring.co.uk/shop/index.php?app=gbu0&ns=catshow&ref=galanthus&sid=44108g61g0p7lhbw2d6fn74a4d6p2pc6
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Buy them in the green and plant them as soon as you get them. Worked well for my garden!
I've read a lot about the necessity of buying snowdrops 'in the green' as they don't transplant well? However I've bought snowdrop bulbs from a local outlet that were quite clearly dry, hung up in packs of six. They have all taken albeit with a little longer to establish
There’s always a lot of talk about what’s best for snowdrops, I always thought ‘ in the green’ was the way to go until I watch the A x Z of plants programme, where the RHS said they never moved theirs in the green as it damages the roots, so they wait until they die down then dig up and replant, nearer to Autumn.
I’ve done both, all seems to work.
Hi Lyn
Gee Tee bulbs are great. I planted a lot as bulbs in the autumn and nothing happened. I have gone this year for snowdrops in the green.