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Snowdrop planting
Yesterday I received a shipment of snowdrops in the green. I know snowdrops
need to be planted immediately and not allowed to dry out. The area where I want to plant the snowdrops already has spring bulbs which are either in bloom or soon will be, so I can't plant the snowdrops there without disturbing these other spring bulbs. My question is, can I plant the snowdrops into containers for a month or two, and then replant them into their permanent place in the border? Thanks. |
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"Jack" wrote in message ... Yesterday I received a shipment of snowdrops in the green. I know snowdrops need to be planted immediately and not allowed to dry out. The area where I want to plant the snowdrops already has spring bulbs which are either in bloom or soon will be, so I can't plant the snowdrops there without disturbing these other spring bulbs. My question is, can I plant the snowdrops into containers for a month or two, and then replant them into their permanent place in the border? Thanks. Yes "~) Jenny |
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from "JennyC" contains these words: "Jack" wrote in message ... Yesterday I received a shipment of snowdrops in the green. I know snowdrops need to be planted immediately and not allowed to dry out. The area where I want to plant the snowdrops already has spring bulbs which are either in bloom or soon will be, so I can't plant the snowdrops there without disturbing these other spring bulbs. My question is, can I plant the snowdrops into containers for a month or two, and then replant them into their permanent place in the border? Thanks. Yes "~) Jenny Sorry, don't agree. By the time you plant out the snowdrops they will have lost their foliage so you negate the whole point of buying them in the green, which is that snowdrops with full leaves and roots take well to transplanting; bare snowdrop bulbs often have a much lower success rate. I would plant them now, dividing them into small clumps of 3 or 4 bulbs, and plant them using a large knife to make the smallest possible planting slit in spaces between your other bulbs. Slide the snowdrops in and press the slit closed with your hand. It's a method I've used successfully to plant thousands of snowdrops. Janet. |
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In article , Jack
writes Thanks for the reply, Janet. What if I plant the snowdrops into pots and leave them there until after next year's flowering? One year I dug up lots of them, after flowering, and put them in pots with lots of soil because my mother wanted some (snowdrops, that is). These were then put in my mother's garden in summer ie I just dug a hole the size of a pot, removed the pot and popped the whole lot in the hole. The snowdrops flowered perfectly well the following winter. You go ahead and put them in pots - even plant them later this year (but don't disturb the root system that has formed in the pot) and you'll be ok. -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
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Thanks, Jane. That's what I'll do.
One more question - will snowdrops grow through a lawn? I planted some anemone blanda in my lawn and none of them have come up, so I'm wondering if snowdrops will struggle to get through the grass too. Regards "Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... In article , Jack writes Thanks for the reply, Janet. What if I plant the snowdrops into pots and leave them there until after next year's flowering? One year I dug up lots of them, after flowering, and put them in pots with lots of soil because my mother wanted some (snowdrops, that is). These were then put in my mother's garden in summer ie I just dug a hole the size of a pot, removed the pot and popped the whole lot in the hole. The snowdrops flowered perfectly well the following winter. You go ahead and put them in pots - even plant them later this year (but don't disturb the root system that has formed in the pot) and you'll be ok. -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
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In article , Jack
writes Thanks, Jane. That's what I'll do. One more question - will snowdrops grow through a lawn? I planted some anemone blanda in my lawn and none of them have come up, so I'm wondering if snowdrops will struggle to get through the grass too. They certainly will - they are a nuisance too!! ie you must not mow them until the leaves have died right back. Sometimes this takes until June (daffs sometimes until July). Then the patch of lawn looks a mess for ages :(( -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
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In article , Jack
writes Thanks, Jane. That's what I'll do. One more question - will snowdrops grow through a lawn? I planted some anemone blanda in my lawn and none of them have come up, so I'm wondering if snowdrops will struggle to get through the grass too. 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. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/ |
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In article , Kay Easton
writes 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!! -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:30:39 +0000, Jane Ransom wrote:
They certainly will - they are a nuisance too!! ie you must not mow them until the leaves have died right back. Well (re)plant them so they are in random clumps a mower or strimmers width apart. Then you can get the mower/strimmer between them too keep the grass down and leave the leaves to feed the bulbs. This is what we have on the front bit of grass, seems to work quite well and the odd small "accident" with the strimmer doesn't seem to unduly worry them. -- Cheers Dave. Remove "spam" for valid email. |
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:38:50 GMT, Janet Baraclough wrote:
...By the time you plant out the snowdrops they will have lost their foliage so you negate the whole point of buying them in the green, which is that snowdrops with full leaves and roots take well to transplanting; bare snowdrop bulbs often have a much lower success rate. The thing snowdrops don't like is the ----long---- drying out the usual bulb trade processes subject them to. Potting them up now and planting them out directly from the pot into the garden later on in the season avoids harmful desiccation as well as planting in the green. But I'm curious if anyone knows for sure if snowdrop roots are perennial or annual? 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. Close observation of the survivors leads me to think that L.v. bulbs should first be rehydrated by soaking in water after reception (they usually in a flabby when you get them), and then planted quite deep. The bulbs, though small, have quite long necks. I suspect that overly-shallow planting is one of the causes of my many failures. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:23:52 -0000, Jack wrote:
One more question - will snowdrops grow through a lawn? I planted some anemone blanda in my lawn and none of them have come up, so I'm wondering if snowdrops will struggle to get through the grass too. Although lots of gardening books yap about overplanting bulbs, I was advised by a very experienced bulb grower that by and large bulbs do not like overplanting. The over-plant competes with the bulbs, and by shading the soil prevents proper warm summer dormancy. Grass probably qualifies as an overplanting, except in the case of some of the larger, more strongly growing daffodils. Counterexample: Crocus vernus naturalized in a local park's lawns. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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My snowdrops have done quite well on my lawn. Is this a good time to
dig them up and separate the clumps? Lazarus |
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:32:21 +0000, Kay Easton
wrotc: 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. The best show of snowdrops I have seen was under a deciduous tree - in clumps amid a carpet of aconites (Eranthis). The eranthis was one of the paler gold species and the effect was "a picture" on a frosty spring morning. I should add that the show was not right up by the bole of the tree but in a halo around the drip circle. Hussein Grow a little garden |
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(Rodger Whitlock) wrote in
: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:23:52 -0000, Jack wrote: One more question - will snowdrops grow through a lawn? I planted some anemone blanda in my lawn and none of them have come up, so I'm wondering if snowdrops will struggle to get through the grass too. Although lots of gardening books yap about overplanting bulbs, I was advised by a very experienced bulb grower that by and large bulbs do not like overplanting. The over-plant competes with the bulbs, and by shading the soil prevents proper warm summer dormancy. Grass probably qualifies as an overplanting, except in the case of some of the larger, more strongly growing daffodils. Oodles of example of all sorts of daffs, crocuses and snowdrops planted very successfully under grass round here, and thriving year on year. Best example I've seen recently: an old churchyard in Dulverton, Somerset, with oak trees dotted about, and longish grass absolutely glowing purple with crocuses - not just clumps, but a vast lawn of them. A fabulous sight, and I presume largely down to natural spread because buying and planting that many bulbs would be beyond the resources of most churches - and they were all the same variety, too. I have a snowdrop bank which is heavily shaded by holly and hazel trees and north-facing to boot. I wouldn't have planted snowdrops there myself - I'd have thought it was too shady. They have found their own way there from next door (and I am very happy about that!) I'm sure there are bulbs that prefer not to be overplanted, but I am confident the common tough types positively thrive on it - here at least. Victoria -- South East Cornwall |
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