Got to love a simple snowdrop. I brought 20 4" pots of them lifted from our garden in Belgium the previous spring. Left them outside in a sheltered, sunny spot where they would get rain but not the northerly winds and all flowered the following spring. Planted them out in what I thought would be a good, shady spot but then drought hit.
I watered that bed anyway because of other new plantings and, a little late, they have all come through this year and look to have bulked up a bit too. They've moved form deep, fertile, alkaline loam on a clay subsoil to a neutral to acid clay soil riddled with tree roots. Sack loads of multi-purpose compost worked in to help and the watering.
Very, very pleased.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I got 100 for £16 back in August. Not great value for money given the deal which @DampGardenMan got, but the good news is that almost all of them are up now and in flower and have lit up my woodland area as I planned.
I have friends in Belgium with a large garden and deep pockets. They've been ordering 2000 snowdrops in the green every year for several years from Jackie and Rob Potterton in Lincolnshire. https://www.pottertons.co.uk/pott/browse.php?folder=2 50% of their bulbs get sent to EU customers and they now fear Brexit will put them out of business.
Maybe you chaps could investigate their prices and support them? They have some fancy ones at fancy prices but good old galanthus nivalis Flore Pleno is on at 30p each.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I recommend you order now..snowdrops in the green. We have ordered from Eurobulbs over many years. Field grown they come in the green and are healthy and have done well in Wales and here in Scotland. This year £80.00 for 1,000 flowering size bulbs. Galanthus nivalis.
Sounds a lot of bulbs, but if you plant in groups of 10 bulbs it is only 100 odd holes to dig. All can be planted in approx 20 mins if soil is good. In bare ground it is a drop in the ocean...large areas can take many 10,000's of bulbs.
Bulbs have been useless,deffo getting them in the green next time!
I bought dry snowdrops bulbs in 2017 (I knew I shouldn't, but hey I wanted to get something in to our "new" garden) and they came up well in 2018. But, nothing much this year - I'm assuming this was because of the scorching hot summer.
We also got dry bluebell bulbs and they came up well in 2018 and are happily pushing through now, so I guess they're a good bit tougher.
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Found it:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/02/single-snowdrop-sells-for-1390-welcome-to-galanthomania/
I watered that bed anyway because of other new plantings and, a little late, they have all come through this year and look to have bulked up a bit too. They've moved form deep, fertile, alkaline loam on a clay subsoil to a neutral to acid clay soil riddled with tree roots. Sack loads of multi-purpose compost worked in to help and the watering.
Very, very pleased.
If you only want 20 get them in the green,if you want 10,000 that may be too pricey!
Maybe you chaps could investigate their prices and support them? They have some fancy ones at fancy prices but good old galanthus nivalis Flore Pleno is on at 30p each.
We have ordered from Eurobulbs over many years.
Field grown they come in the green and are healthy and have done well in Wales and here in Scotland.
This year £80.00 for 1,000 flowering size bulbs. Galanthus nivalis.
Sounds a lot of bulbs, but if you plant in groups of 10 bulbs it is only 100 odd holes to dig. All can be planted in approx 20 mins if soil is good.
In bare ground it is a drop in the ocean...large areas can take many 10,000's of bulbs.
https://eurobulbs.co.uk/single-snowdrop-galanthus.html
We also got dry bluebell bulbs and they came up well in 2018 and are happily pushing through now, so I guess they're a good bit tougher.