@Silver surfer Lovely to see your photos, snowdrops are so wonderful they give a great start to the new gardening year. I was given some bulbs of G reginae Olgea, I tried them in a sunnier spot but they struggled and sadly disappeared. With the expensive ones there is always a risk. G Atkinsii has large beautifully shaped flowers in proportion to it's leaves that is why it is a personal favourite.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I've also used Eurobulbs for a large-ish quantity of ordinary snowdrop bulbs - a few hundred not thousands, my garden's not very big but I'm trying to establish a swathe of them. The special rare ones are lovely but I'm not wanting to get down on my hands and knees to really see the details in snowdrop season. I'd rather have the massed effect of lots of the ordinary kinds.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
me too. I think if I were going to go for special snowdrops, I would have them in a bowl on a table or wall so I could easily get up close and enjoy the unique blooms. But then I don't have a collector's wiring. I am more often trying to rid and simplify than get more.
I like massed effects very much - of a lot of plants - some things look better that way - tulips, cyclamen, bluebells, allium, to name a few.
Hadn't heard of Euro bulbs just taken a look the second photo looks more like Japanese Anemone than Anemone Blanda Pink. This stopped me looking any further sorry to say. @Fire A friend had a trough by her back door in which she planted G Wendy's Gold she liked to see them each time she stepped out to the garden.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Hadn't heard of Euro bulbs just taken a look the second photo looks more like Japanese Anemone than Anemone Blanda Pink. This stopped me looking any further sorry to say.
It isn't A. blanda is it. But I've used this company and the bulbs have always been as ordered
Keep an eye on the watering of plants in the green. I lost a large load of snowdrops in the green due to a dry spring, before they were established - it didn't occur to me to water them.
Posts
G Atkinsii has large beautifully shaped flowers in proportion to it's leaves that is why it is a personal favourite.
@Fire A friend had a trough by her back door in which she planted G Wendy's Gold she liked to see them each time she stepped out to the garden.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
In the sticks near Peterborough
https://www.avonbulbs.co.uk/snowdrops-in-the-green
They do everything from common snowdrops to the really expensive kind.