We’ve planted ours alongside the damp shady path beside our house @WillDB as that’s the sort of place where I’ve seen it growing happily .  I planted it six years ago ... it’s still there but hasn’t really spread much ., so far ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Too early for mine to be showing yet, but hoping they've spread a bit more this year. A handful of very dried out pips when I got them for next to nothing a few years ago. I love themÂ
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairygirl we are in new forest so plants seem to emerge quite quickly here,we’ve only been here since last August.Wont be 100% convinced it’s lily of the valley until it flowers.
How big are the plants in your photo Sarah? It is good and clear but the size is difficult to judge Sorry not trying to be rude.
If your leaves are like Janieb's picture, you should be able to zoom in on hers to see more closely the detail of the flower buds, it is a good clear photo, and the trough gives a bit of scale. And take note of the colouring of the lower parts of the leaf stems too, you should see that reddish sheath on them.
And it looks you don't have long to wait.
Ours grow on a slightly acidic soil, though I would say it is not very. Some sites say a little acidic for them so maybe why ours is okay.
They apparently need the magical "moist but well drained" soil. Ours grow in partial shade, with gloopy winter wet clay (improved but still wet and soggy at times), that dries somewhat hard when there is lack of moisture. They do push through between some slabs though they are not well laid.
Certainly looks like them Susan. I looked last week at mine and nothing yet showing, but they'll start coming soon and that's exactly what they look like - little red and dark green shoots, as in Janie's pic, unfurling and becoming a bit like tulip foliage, then the flower stems
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love themÂ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
we are in new forest so plants seem to emerge quite quickly here,we’ve only been here since last August.Wont be 100% convinced it’s lily of the valley until it flowers.
It is good and clear but the size is difficult to judge
Sorry not trying to be rude.
If your leaves are like Janieb's picture, you should be able to zoom in on hers to see more closely the detail of the flower buds, it is a good clear photo, and the trough gives a bit of scale.
And take note of the colouring of the lower parts of the leaf stems too, you should see that reddish sheath on them.
And it looks you don't have long to wait.
Ours grow on a slightly acidic soil, though I would say it is not very.
Some sites say a little acidic for them so maybe why ours is okay.
They apparently need the magical "moist but well drained" soil.
Ours grow in partial shade, with gloopy winter wet clay (improved but still wet and soggy at times), that dries somewhat hard when there is lack of moisture.
They do push through between some slabs though they are not well laid.
I looked last week at mine and nothing yet showing, but they'll start coming soon and that's exactly what they look like - little red and dark green shoots, as in Janie's pic, unfurling and becoming a bit like tulip foliage, then the flower stems
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...