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digging up snowdrops
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 -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
digging up snowdrops
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! |
digging up snowdrops
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... 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!! Hi Janet, I have no personal expertise, but Goole has provided this site:- http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...nowdrop-bulbs/ I think it answers your question. Happy New Year Blwyddyn Newydd Dda. Bill |
digging up snowdrops
On Dec 31, 12:36*pm, Janet Tweedy wrote:
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 -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Probably meant you shouldn't dig up snowdrops around the green, leave them for all the village to enjoy. I think we will be OK as long as no one tells the Snowdrops that it's not good for them. I work on the principal that what the plants dont know never hurts them. Have a great New Year David |
digging up snowdrops
On Dec 31, 5:52*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-12-31 12:36:23 +0000, Janet Tweedy said: 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 I think your theory about digging them before the bulbs have dried out is the key to the whole issue. *This sounds like a bit of hair-splitting from that pov. * Planting them 'in the green' not only helps people to visualise where their snowdrops will flower next year, it ensures absolutely fresh bulbs. *Those poor little desiccated things in packets seem to fail more often than they succeed. *Tomorrow I must go out and see if any of ours are giving that crisp underfoot feel to the grass. *We don't have any of the early ones you have so have to wait a bit longer for those welcome signs of spring coming. -- Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com South Devon- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I never quite bought the planting green advice. I've always done it at the last moment while you can still see where they are. It's getting them up moist and back in the ground still moist that's important as you've already said. Rod |
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Her question is "For all these years we've been advised to move snowdrops in the green - your url is an example f this - but the Royal Horticultural Society/===== magazine now advises against this - why?" |
digging up snowdrops
In article , Bill Grey
writes Hi Janet, I have no personal expertise, but Goole has provided this site:- http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...nowdrop-bulbs/ I think it answers your question. Happy New Year Blwyddyn Newydd Dda. Bill I would think that the RHS would be more likely to be correct though Bill. It's in the latest "The Garden" magazine. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
digging up snowdrops
In article
, Dave Hill writes I work on the principal that what the plants dont know never hurts them. I like that David! I would have thought that it might mean just that snowdrops dug up and dried never take and the special ones can be expensive! -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
digging up snowdrops
In article , Sacha
writes We don't have any of the early ones you have so have to wait a bit longer for those welcome signs of spring coming. -- They aren't early Sacha they are specifically autumn ones. I'll put one or two in the post when they die down eventually, but as i say, we've all found that they never seem to come up the first autumn after replanting:) They came from originally, Dowling Munro a sort of local expert on Galanthus Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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