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RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:53:14 GMT

Coo. Christmas snowdrops. I have roses in flower still and have seen crocus and daffodil shoots in the Sensory Garden wherer I volunteer.
Wet here, again, too.

Penny :)

RE: Snowdrops

Scotkat — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:41:34 GMT

Good morning Kath and everyone I was having a wee strolling my garden between heavy rain showers and have noticed my snowdrops popping through already.

RE: Snowdrops

gardenplanters — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:54:49 GMT

Welcome to Garden planters,
I found a pot at the bottom of my garden with some white crocus in flower this afternoon.

Today has been a very sunny day, but there is still a raw wind.
:cool:

RE: Snowdrops

gardenplanters — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:37:35 GMT

Welcome to Garden planters,
I think people who have smaller gardens and like their annual bedding plants in summer mostly dig them up so that they have more room to manoevure and can get their bedding plants in earlier so that they don't have to wait for the large amount of foliage (especially from daffs and tulips), to die down.
:hehe:

RE: Snowdrops

gardenplanters — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:37:32 GMT

Welcome to Garden planters,
We had a talk on bulbs at the U3A Gardening Group and an experienced grower who grows masses of bulbs in pots each year, then puts the biggest out into the ground and grows on the smaller ones in pots.
You can See here:-
:hehe:

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:40:02 GMT

I see that the daffodils I planted a month or so back are shooting - really early. They obviously think that Spring is here.

:)

RE: Snowdrops

Stymie — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:11:58 GMT

I'm getting the message thanks, which mainly bears out my earlier suspicions. I do, of course, take my Begonias and Dahlias into the cold greenhouse over winter. They are in various containers and are tubers rather than bulbs. I don't dig them out very often, preferring to let the medium that they are growing in dry out slowly. I tend to moisten the medium when signs of new growth are seen, remove the top inch and replace with a compost which has some nutrients in it.

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:54:58 GMT

Daffs, tulips, crocuses and snowdrops can be left to naturlize, but dahlias are more likely to be lifted. Some people leave them in the ground, though. We had a talk on bulbs at the U3A Gardening Group and an experienced grower who grows masses of bulbs in pots each year, then puts the biggest out into the ground and grows on the smaller ones in pots.

:)

RE: Snowdrops

Kath — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:54:18 GMT

My large white Iceberg narcissi have been in the front garden for years, but I must admit when the clumps get very big, approx, after 5 years, after flowering, I dig them up and separate the bulbs and replant, mainly to give the bulbs a bit more space. I always throw a good handful of grit into the bottom of the hole, so the bulbs are sitting on the grit and not on directly on the soil. Less risk of bulbs rotting off and better drainage for them.

Apart from that I always leave bulbs planted in the soil all year round.

I think people who have smaller gardens and like their annual bedding plants in summer mostly dig them up so that they have more room to manoevure and can get their bedding plants in earlier so that they don't have to wait for the large amount of foliage (especially from daffs and tulips), to die down.

Of course they can either be dried off and stored in a dry, dark, and airy place, or best way is to bury them in a spare piece of ground until the following late Autumn, when they can be dug up again and re planted into situ.This is of course all extra work and risk of losing some bulbs, therefore I prefer to leave them in the ground, (getting lazy in my old age :))

RE: Snowdrops

Stymie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:16:57 GMT

I was thinking that once in place, they can be left but does anyone know if and what needs lifting after flowering or whenever? Sorry to be such a dunce but this is a new area for me.

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:27:30 GMT

I was told to make sure the daffodils I planted didn't dry out - not much chance of that. Some bulbs need a cold spell to help them grow, garlic does - apparently it helps the corms to form. Unfortunately, what I planted shot very quickly and the frost has hit the young shoots. Can only wait and see whether it stops them growing.

:)

RE: Snowdrops

Stymie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:06:20 GMT

Thanks girls. They're all in now regardless of flowering time, which is mostly spring anyway. I haven't been a big bulb grower in the past and thought that there may be something about cold and damp at planting times.:blush:

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:45:52 GMT

Ah, I see. I don't grow many bulbs and I'm not up to speed on their planting. I think what Kath says is correct. :)

RE: Snowdrops

Kath — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:07:01 GMT

Understand Don,

I've always planted Spring flowering bulbs before the end of November, and Autumn flowering bulbs in late Spring, whether that's correct or not is another matter :)

RE: Snowdrops

Stymie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:10:09 GMT

No error. I assume that they should be in by now but are there any which shouldn't be in yet.

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:32:07 GMT

I expect that was a typing error, Kath - probably meant to type "should". :)

Tulips were being planted at Plamer Gardens the other day.

:)

RE: Snowdrops

Kath — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:21:30 GMT

:ermm::ermm::ermm: perhaps I'm still dozy, don't quite know what you mean by 'shouldn't' be in by now :)

RE: Snowdrops

Stymie — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:14:04 GMT

Are there any perennial bulbs which shouldn't be in by now?

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:34:12 GMT

Ooh, Kath, you have purple crocuses - you are more advance than we are! Just the yellow ones so far.

Damp here this morning. I have some spaces in the front garden and will take a look round the nursery today to see what I can fill them with!

I'm thinking of getting a couple of large tubs or barrels to stand beside the back garden path - it's very uninteresting there at the moment, just some bushes. I think tubs will look nice there. Could try some fuschias. :)

RE: Snowdrops

Kath — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:12:41 GMT

Also a lovely day here in East Anglia, bit 'nippy' but sun was shining all day.

Yes, more and more of the snowdrops are coming through and flowering, as well as the first delicate pale lilac crocus, and the larger deep purple, yellow and white ones are in full bud

RE: Snowdrops

Tuppence — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:46:05 GMT

Very nice, Keith. They must be really pretty. :)

RE: Snowdrops

keithmart — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:02:32 GMT

I found a pot at the bottom of my garden with some white crocus in flower this afternoon.

Today has been a very sunny day, but there is still a raw wind.

Roll on Summer!

Snowdrops

Tuppence — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:52:16 GMT

I've just looked in a corner of the front garden and see that there are tiny snowdrops in flower. My first ones this year.

:)