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    #32
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    SnowyMuckish wrote: »
    :pac: nothing very posh about snowdrops or those that go hunting for a peek of them. A very humble understated flower!

    On a separate note I went on a dividing spree last year with my muscari, they’ve been showing through since late November and I’m getting impatient now....

    One of the biggest joys of gardening for me, juggling impatience and excitement of what’s to come!

    Not a man thats posh enough to have colchicums then :D

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #33
    SnowyMuckish
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    Those ladies could do with a little dressing up before you could call them posh :pac::pac:
    I only came across them a few years ago, fascinating flowers!

    Edit: and I’m not a posh enough woman to own one yet :pac: but you put them on my radar :D

    My next purchase awaits!


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    #34
    The Continental Op
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    SnowyMuckish wrote: »
    Those ladies could do with a little dressing up before you could call them posh :pac::pac:
    I only came across them a few years ago, fascinating flowers!

    Actually very easy. Expensive to start out with but they do bulk up well and can be divided up with no harm to the bulbs after flowering. I tend to divide them every 5 years to spread them around.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #35
    SnowyMuckish
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    They’re definitely a wow plant, I remember first seeing them in a national park and wondering what the flip... what’s wrong here, it took a bit of research!


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    #36
    The Continental Op
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    SnowyMuckish wrote: »
    They’re definitely a wow plant, I remember first seeing them in a national park and wondering what the flip... what’s wrong here, it took a bit of research!

    I went mad recently and spent about a hundred euro getting some of the more unusual ones. When I planted those I dived up our 5 year old clumps of the commoner one. Our cold wet soil is far from ideal and they still flower and bulk up well here.

    Years back in the UK I divided up some huge clumps about 2 foot across (planted 30 years earlier) and after spending a day replanting gave up and ended up giving more away than I replanted.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #37
    SnowyMuckish
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    It always amazes me how quickly bulbs (and other perennials) bulk up! I always believe in investing wisely, start off with something worth investing in, (for me that’s organic bulbs) and as expensive as they are, if you have patience to wait, you could have a huge stock for nothing!


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    #38
    SnowyMuckish
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    Glad to hear they do well in cold wet soils, as there’s nothing more miserable than a garden in the NW in winter!


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    #39
    The Continental Op
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    SnowyMuckish wrote: »
    It always amazes me how quickly bulbs (and other perennials) bulk up! I always believe in in investing wisely, start off with something worth investing in, (for me that’s organic bulbs) and as expensive as they are, if you have patience to wait, you could have a huge stock for nothing!

    I'm thinking next year of spending some money on named varieties of Snowdrops. Always wanted Lady Elphinstone as I knew the family who interestingly had acres of snowdrops but not Lady Elphinstone.

    I think its probably too late to be trying to buy any this year especially with Brexit.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #40
    billyhead
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    I presume that bulbs that didn't grow this year could grow next year instead?


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    #41
    The Continental Op
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    billyhead wrote: »
    I presume that bulbs that didn't grow this year could grow next year instead?

    Don't give up yet. While dry bulbs give very poor results for snowdrops they will also be slow to develop. If you ever handle a lot of snowdrops you'll notice that even in the height of summer the bulbs that come out of the soil are nothing like what you see in most packets of snowdrops in a garden center. So the bulb has to recover a bit before it will do anything. Give it another couple of weeks before you give up.

    However anything that doesn't come up this year is very unlikely to make an appearance next year.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #42
    looksee
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    I'm thinking next year of spending some money on named varieties of Snowdrops. Always wanted Lady Elphinstone as I knew the family who interestingly had acres of snowdrops but not Lady Elphinstone.

    I think its probably too late to be trying to buy any this year especially with Brexit.

    Did you see this site https://www.fieldofblooms.ie/ he's in Tipperary and does specialist snowdrops. Eyewateringly expensive though, those prices are per bulb!


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    #43
    The Continental Op
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    looksee wrote: »
    Did you see this site https://www.fieldofblooms.ie/ he's in Tipperary and does specialist snowdrops. Eyewateringly expensive though, those prices are per bulb!

    Thanks for that might even get some this year then, if he's not selling to the UK then he might have good stock levels. Those prices are far from being the most expensive I've seen.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #44
    pwurple
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    Altamont plants is another irish snowdrop specialist. I got some "abington green" last year from them, showing their faces again at the moment, and very welcome they are.

    http://altamontplants.com/


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