18-03-2003, 08:44 AM
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Snowdrop planting
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In article , Kay Easton
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I read in a Hessayon book at the weekend that snowdrops will compete
successfully with the fine grasses in a woodland setting but not with
the vigorous grasses of a lawn.
Well, we have them in the lawn, but then maybe they survive because the
lawn is not a top notch one!!
A lot of our lawn was new last year since it got trashed by the heavy
duty log shifting, greenhouse building and shed base laying. I dressed,
worked in some manure and reseeded it. By the time we came to planting
the snowdrops there was a fairly good turf growing vigorously. We
bought, not even in the green, but cheap dried out little bulbs from
Woolworths on the grounds that we would certainly be buying more in the
green (3 weeks ago), that there was a small chance we'd have a few come
up to let us know spring was coming. As it turns out, after I binned 20%
of the bulbs as looking rotten and dusty, we got about 80% of the rest
up in the lawn.
Warwick
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