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Snowdrops
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
The message from Sacha contains these words: 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. I think they are my favourite flower. No. I know they are. Oh yes, oh yes! More even than primroses, which run them close. I have thousands here, and for me at least aspect seems to be the crucial factor. Here, the ones in deepest shade are the ones which come through earliest: the ones facing the sun will generally be the last to poke through. This may seem crazy, I know; but I think it's about freedom from frost: the ones which get most sun are also those which are least sheltered from temperature variations. There are, of course, plenty of natural variations and cultivars, as well as several species; but I have no reason to believe that the ones I have nurtured and spread about for a couple of decades aren't all pretty much the same. I just love getting down on my knees to smell them. Maybe I should have started a programme of selecting them for flowering period and all that jazz; but I've always been content just to let them rip, dividing the clumps from time to time. There is a God, after all. Mike. |
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