Split your new bulbs up into singles but you can put a few in each hole. They multiply quickly and the singles seed as well. When they get crowded you can divide them up again, after flowering
Berghill said: For some reason Snowdrops like company,
I wish I'd known that when I plant mine last year - all in their own hole!
Your Snowdrop wood is really lovely, Berghill. Can you remember how long it took to get those clumps established like that, and when they were planted? Was each clump originally just 3 bulbs?
Wow! Berghill, I'm ridiculously jealous. As Birdy says, can you remember how many years it took to get to that stage? And how many bulbs you bought to make it? I so want that picture on my calendar
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I like the word too Jess. I like words.
Split your new bulbs up into singles but you can put a few in each hole. They multiply quickly and the singles seed as well. When they get crowded you can divide them up again, after flowering
In the sticks near Peterborough
Word of caution, do not split into single bulbs. For some reason Snowdrops like company, plant in at least threes in the same hole.
This is what I am looking forward to seeing, from last year.
Part of my Snowdrop Wood
Fabulous Berghill.
Very nice
In the sticks near Peterborough
Berghill said: For some reason Snowdrops like company,
I wish I'd known that when I plant mine last year - all in their own hole!
Your Snowdrop wood is really lovely, Berghill. Can you remember how long it took to get those clumps established like that, and when they were planted? Was each clump originally just 3 bulbs?
Beautiful Berghill
Deep deep envy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow! Berghill, I'm ridiculously jealous. As Birdy says, can you remember how many years it took to get to that stage? And how many bulbs you bought to make it? I so want that picture on my calendar
Just answered all these questions and lost the posting.
80 to 100 years.
Leaf mould, scrap metal, broken glass and pottery etc
Perry Pear, Damson, Rowan and Hawthorn.
Damp soil as it is the lowest part of the land.
And that picture is only a quarter of it.
We have spread the bulbs out over the last 20 years. Each bulb planted with become 5 in a few seasons.
Very highly scented and sterile, so not straight G. nivalis. Usual method of spread is the moles.