They will grow this year. Do you have a very small corner in your garden facing North or thereabouts, shady preferably quite damp? If you have. plant them there, much deeper than they are planted in the pot and you might be able to get them to grow. Good luck.Songbird-2 said:
We visited a garden centre today and got four little pots of snowdrops, plus a nice pot to plant them up in. We have no luck when growing snowdrops but, as we love them, we decided to try again this year. Snowdrops are duly potted up now and sitting in the garden. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will grow. 🤞
I was able to get out this morning in a rare dry spell so raked leaves off one flower bed where I know bulbs should be coming through soon. I also pruned a rose on the cross piece of a wooden arch, very carefully, as one post is a bit wobbly and I had to stand on the top of the stepstool. I'm not supposed to do that without a helper!
Got quite a bit done today actually. Cleared leaves and bits of debris from the beds, edged the lawn just to make it look a bit more tidy, spiked lawn as well whilst taking advantage of a bit of dry weather, cut back old leaves on pulmonaria, swept patio and topped up bird feeders.
Glad I did as it is now chucking it down!
Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
Thank you @Joyce Goldenlily for the advice. We do have one fence which faces North , currently our shady border and plenty of shrubs and perennials and ferns there. With the bulbs being in a pot, I will be able to put them all over the place to see where they do best. I'll start on that fence line border then!👍🙂
Yesterday I took both the dog and cat to the vet for their vaccinations. Both passed their health checks with top marks, the vet commented on how rare it is these days to see animals the correct weight and with clean teeth, my cat is 17 and the dog is 12. I left the cat in the pet carrier while I walked the dog briefly, and did a quick reccie in B&M for milk and a new diary before going on to the vet. When we came out from the vet it was like night and raining. So bad that part way home I had to to pull in with my hazard lights on I could not see the road in front of me. Scary. I didn't feel great either which didn't help. It has been abysmal today, with amber warnings for heavy rain and strong wind all day. I have moved the amaryllis onto a cool windowsill now, it has a few root tips showing, still sitting in shallow water, am thinking of giving it a weak feed of Baby Bio.
That does sound a very unpleasant journey @Joyce Goldenlily, hope you feel better soon. Good that the pets are so well cared for.
Just looked up care of amaryllis on GW which states it doesn't like being waterlogged and needs a cool place. It's also toxic to cats and dogs so keep it somewhere they can't get at it. Takes 6-8 weeks to bloom. Prefers to be potbound. So you may have a better chance of it surviving if you pot it up in compost rather than a saucer of water?
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Do you have a very small corner in your garden facing North or thereabouts, shady preferably quite damp? If you have. plant them there, much deeper than they are planted in the pot and you might be able to get them to grow.
Good luck.Songbird-2 said:
Cleared leaves and bits of debris from the beds, edged the lawn just to make it look a bit more tidy, spiked lawn as well whilst taking advantage of a bit of dry weather, cut back old leaves on pulmonaria, swept patio and topped up bird feeders.
Glad I did as it is now chucking it down!
It's blowing a hoolie and persisiting down. Hibernating is in order.
It has been abysmal today, with amber warnings for heavy rain and strong wind all day.
I have moved the amaryllis onto a cool windowsill now, it has a few root tips showing, still sitting in shallow water, am thinking of giving it a weak feed of Baby Bio.
Just looked up care of amaryllis on GW which states it doesn't like being waterlogged and needs a cool place. It's also toxic to cats and dogs so keep it somewhere they can't get at it. Takes 6-8 weeks to bloom. Prefers to be potbound.
So you may have a better chance of it surviving if you pot it up in compost rather than a saucer of water?