In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
Can't keep up with horticultural advancement. According to the garden
this month you shouldn't dig up snowdrops in the green. It's not good
for the roots they say. instead you should transplant them just as the
leaves die or even when the leaves are gone.
Cor blimey! So we've all been doing it wrong for all these years!!
Still i think the main reason might be because you should never ever
bother with a snowdrop bulb that has dried out, it just won't take and
I guess digging them up as they are growing is the best way of making
sure they aren't dried out!

My autumn flowering snowdrops have been in flower for ages now, since
November and they have flowered throughout the snow and have appeared
again s if nothing has happened still flowering away.

Funny thing with these types though, they don't seem to flower the
first year they are planted but suddenly come up 2 years later - 6 of
us shared some three years back and all of us had the same result!

Happy new year anyway to everyone on the UK rec. gardening newsgroup!

Janet

And a happy new year to you and yours too Dalmatian Janet. And many more
of them! The Stachyurus praecox you so kindly sent me is coming along
really well.

BTW, it seems I have also been doing the wrong things with snowdrops for
a number of years. I have no intention of changing my methods as I work
on the basis of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

Best to all for 2011.

--
Gopher .... I know my place!