I have a large oak and I'd love to plant snowdrops underneath but there's a rabbit warren nearby. Do rabbits eat them, if that's not a really stupid question.
I planted snow drops under my plum tree three years ago. I also planted some in amongst the lawn but unfortunately the hound has turned the lawn into a race track so they have been squashed.
Expect it to look a little bare to start, mine are only just starting to clump up and look truly natural: its beautiful!
Thanks Clarington - we're here for the long term, as housing association tenants they won't chuck us out unless we misbehave! And that part of the garden is a dog-free zone so hopefully my little bulbs will flourish!
One of the few things they don't seem to snack on Hosta, in my experience. They annihilate tulips and crocus, but daffs ar ok too.
It's a beautiful sight when you have a 'run' of them in late winter. I don't have any photos of the ones at my last house, but they were a delight, and a real promise of spring, which can be a long time in coming up here.
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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I love a project to work on. That sounds great
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have a large oak and I'd love to plant snowdrops underneath but there's a rabbit warren nearby. Do rabbits eat them, if that's not a really stupid question.
They've never eaten mine, nor has anything else, even the muntjac that eats hellebore flowers and euphorbia
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks Nut, that's encouraging.
I planted snow drops under my plum tree three years ago. I also planted some in amongst the lawn but unfortunately the hound has turned the lawn into a race track so they have been squashed.
Expect it to look a little bare to start, mine are only just starting to clump up and look truly natural: its beautiful!
Thanks Clarington - we're here for the long term, as housing association tenants they won't chuck us out unless we misbehave! And that part of the garden is a dog-free zone so hopefully my little bulbs will flourish!
One of the few things they don't seem to snack on Hosta, in my experience. They annihilate tulips and crocus, but daffs ar ok too.
It's a beautiful sight when you have a 'run' of them in late winter. I don't have any photos of the ones at my last house, but they were a delight, and a real promise of spring, which can be a long time in coming up here.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I plan to remove the fence and tidy up the ground around the base and plant the snowdrops there so I can see them from the house.
great idea Hosta
In the sticks near Peterborough
I also intend to use those horizontal bars, by the style, to form a bench (of sorts) on the other side of the tree , facing the lake.