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Chionodoxas and aconites - advice?

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  • My chionodoxas are in a stone trough on a ledge outside the house about halfway up it. At the moment only the greenery is out, which looks like thick blades of grass. No sign of flowers yet but there will be. The little patch I have in the garden are not out yet, so I don't think its a problem, just have to wait a little longer.

  • Berghill, where can I get green seed of nemorosa?

     

    Gardenmaiden - none of mine are even showing green image so maybe squirrels have chomped the lot in preference to the other bulbs image

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Seeds of A. nemorosa can only really be got from someone who has them growing in their garden. Bought packeted seeds are dead.

     

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Wisehedgecrone. I have sent you a PM.

  • image Do slugs eat chionodoxas? I am wondering if something's been munching them. Those which have emerged show signs of nibbling and it wasn't me....

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Sadly, yes, they will eat the flower buds, even below ground level.

     

  • Ahhhhhh - that might be my answerimage RIGHT. (wildlife friendly) slug pellets to the rescue - for any remaining bulbs!

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    This is Scilla luciiliae (Chionodoxa) Valentine's Day without having been eaten.

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  • WOW.image WELL JELL!

    How do I get some to bloom like that next year???

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Find someone who sell Valentine's Day?

    Not sure that anyone actually does. But the ordinary ones usually flower like that, just a little later that's all. If the molluscs don't eat the buds that is.

    Ours do not do too badly, but then we do have hundreds of them so you tend not to notice a few eaten buds.

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