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05-01-2004, 07:33 PM
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Snowdrops
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wrote: Pam Moore5/1/04 3:58 I saw the first snowdrops today, in a front garden near me. 3 inches tall and white buds erect. Mine in similar situation are not showing yet. Can't beat Robert's daffodils though!! (between Bristol and Bath) Our snowdrops are nowhere near flowering yet. Whoever planted them in this garden must have loved them, because there are tens of thousands of them but no *very* early ones. All seem to flower at different times and the ones nearest to the house are only just coming through the grass. My snowdrops are not near flowering either, but the Crocus laevigatus fontenay is still blooming (started late in December) & Crocus ancyrensis is well up & just getting ready. There are buds on "Chinese Lily" Narcissus but this week is a major cold-snap so I worry those buds will be ruined (this is a narcissus for forcing indoors, or for further south gardens; it will USUALLY grow well on Puget Sound, but then we don't get quite such cold winters every year, so I'm worrying for it this week). I plant winter-blooming stuff though so that the wait for spring flowers isn't painful, & right now the Cyclamen coums are full of magenta buds. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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