Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Leucojum vernum, was Snowdrop planting
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:12:54 GMT, Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from (Rodger Whitlock) contains these words: The spring snowflake, /Leucojum vernum/, a very close relative to the snowdrop, is much worse about being dried out. I've planted roughly two hundred bulbs of it over the last fifteen years but only a very few have survived and established themselves. In the same garden, I planted 50 Lv in 1988; only about 10 of them survived. They flowered but didn't seem to increase so never made a show worth having. The ones that lived, were planted in a *very* soggy bit of a wooded area. I think you are right, they are very sensitive to dry conditions. The ones that have survived to flower and multiply actually get pretty dry in summer. This year, for the first time, they actually put on something of a show in their own quiet way -- I suspect that my fall application of fertilizer in 2001 and 2002 has helped them a great deal. A good friend here spends a lot of time in Czechia, and her snapshots show L.V. thriving there. But they also show the limestone strata of the Czech bedrock. Perhaps LV has a lime requirement not satisfied in my acid soil. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Loddon Lily (Leucojum aestivum) [1/1] | Garden Photos | |||
Potato "snowdrop" | United Kingdom | |||
Flowering snowdrop | United Kingdom | |||
Snowdrop planting | United Kingdom | |||
Potato-"Snowdrop" | United Kingdom |