By the way ... have you made a typo? In one place you say Broadleigh are charging £4 for 10 nivalis ... but you go on to say they're charging £3.50 for one nivalis? or have I misunderstood your meaning?
Sorry I based that £3.50 figure on 100 for £35.00 rate. You are absolutely correct they would be £4.00 each if I had bought 10.
While Euro bulb work out to less than 10p per bulb if you buy a 1,000! Quite a saving.
How fantastic to be given so many snowdrops as birthday gifts. You will think of special friends when you look at your special snowdrops. Have you kept them all labelled. I try to be very nerdy and label all my specials.
The special ones were labelled until I had a fall all over them ... I broke my foot and deconstructed my knee ... I wrecked the Hesperis and narrowly missed the stone birdbath with my head ... in the resulting mayhem labels were scattered and went awry ... I know which is Gal. Mighty Atom ... that is particularly special to me as it comes from near my old home, and it's multiplying beautifully ... the others are now beautiful but anonymous
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The special ones were labelled until I had a fall all over them ... I broke my foot and deconstructed my knee ... I wrecked the Hesperis and narrowly missed the stone birdbath with my head ... in the resulting mayhem labels were scattered and went awry ... I know which is Gal. Mighty Atom ... that is particularly special to me as it comes from near my old home, and it's multiplying beautifully ... the others are now beautiful but anonymous
Eeck...not good. Must have taken ages to get over your injuries. Hesperis is like a weed it would recover...sad about snowdrop labels.
Galanthus Mighty Atom looks a good one...big sturdy flowers.
It happened in May right at the beginning of the glorious summer of 2017 … I was moving the sprinkler as I’d been making sure the snowdrops had plenty of water and didn’t dry out as they were shutting down. I recovered in time to drive to Cornwall in September … it was a lovely summer for people who didn’t have their foot and lower leg in a big black plastic hoot 🙄 🤪
‘Mighty Atom’ is indeed gorgeous. It originated in a garden not far from the Sizewell nuclear power stations 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry I've just seen your posts @mchua. When I said ordinary snowdrops - I just meant the bog stand Galanthus nivalis. There are loads of varieties of snowdrop, so they don't alwasy flwoer at exactly the same times
However, as already said, dry bulbs are often less successful than those sold 'in the green' because of them being stored and not always in the best conditions. Your climate, site and soil will often determine the success too, so a drier soil and a sunny site can be less productive than a damper, shadier site with lots of organic matter. Many snowdrops will do well in grass and will multiply though.
No problem. I had some that I planted earlier than the ones I mentioned in this discussion actually, which have come up and even flowered already. I noticed that a few shoots have only grown to about an inch, and then just stopped, grind to a halt, they haven’t increased in height at all over the last couple of weeks. It’s quite frustrating seeing them not making progress. But at least I got a few that made it.
As for the ones mentioned in my first post (the packet in the photo) that I planted early December, still nothing. @Palustris is right they probably died or were incorrectly planted.
I grow a snowdrop called Ikariae think it is also known as Woronowii? no sigh of it yet. I wonder how many people have purchased snowdrops in packs and they have never appeared the following year. Seems wrong that growers get away with it. Purchased Phormium Blondie last week and returned it today nothing to say on label that it needs a greenhouse over winter, again it is wrong, but I digress sorry.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I grow a snowdrop called Ikariae think it is also known as Woronowii? no sigh of it yet. I wonder how many people have purchased snowdrops in packs and they have never appeared the following year. Seems wrong that growers get away with it.
It does seem to be one of the harder bulbs to get established, especially if bought not in the green. They can dry out and be eaten by squirrels and slugs, dug up by birds etc
When I first moved in here, and before I improved the soil, I found one patch of G. nivilis in a small area of clay. In late summer, that area dried-out completely so I transplanted the dry bulbs (even the roots had shrivelled and gone) to several other areas, and they all 'took' and came up the next spring. I can only conclude that it's simply down to the amount of time the bulbs are stored dry after lifting. Obviously, it was just a matter of hours or days in my case, not weeks or months as is likely from a supplier of dry bulbs.
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You are absolutely correct they would be £4.00 each if I had bought 10.
While Euro bulb work out to less than 10p per bulb if you buy a 1,000!
Quite a saving.
How fantastic to be given so many snowdrops as birthday gifts.
You will think of special friends when you look at your special snowdrops.
Have you kept them all labelled.
I try to be very nerdy and label all my specials.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hesperis is like a weed it would recover...sad about snowdrop labels.
Galanthus Mighty Atom looks a good one...big sturdy flowers.
https://www.google.com/search?q="galanthus+mighty+atom"&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwimiv-T1LH1AhVP0IUKHU-xDdUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq="galanthus+mighty+atom"&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDFD6CFj2I2CvNGgAcAB4AIABmAGIAfwCkgEDMC4zmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=HqThYaaDFM-glwTP4raoDQ&bih=595&biw=1280&client=firefox-b-d
‘Mighty Atom’ is indeed gorgeous. It originated in a garden not far from the Sizewell nuclear power stations 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.