Snowdrops

Is it okay to plant snowdrops in lawn which is cut during summer months

 

As long as it is not cut until after the leaves have died down. Really they are woodland bulbs and do better in damper soil than is usually found under grass.

 

Around trees are nice too

 

Why do they grow so well in graveyards....????

 

Do they Capney?

I thought only daisies grew there

I have never seen any exactly around graves, maybe in the lawned areas on approach.

 

A good memory would be a good thing
For forty years I have had a clump of snowdrops, totally out of place in the back lawn (meadow) Nice to see, and for years I have said I will, dig them up and put them in the front border

This year they did not appear

When I built my new green house last April, I moved the shed
Yep the snowdrops are under the shed :DOH: I feel guilty, but there is no way I can move the shed to retrieve, Well I know there is as I did it last year, but do not feel up to it a year on guilty guilty

Jack McH

 

Just to be clear on one thing, modern RHS advice is to plant Snowdrops as freshly dug dormant bulbs (if available) as a first choice, then bulbs grown in pots and finally 'in the green'. Dried bulbs are almost always dead. To me the only way to get freshly dug dormant bulbs is to get them from a friend' s garden.

 

Do we need to ask you first? or just help ourselves? :D

 

I planted some in my late husband' tub we had found on the allotment years ago. I saw white tips yesterday, today they are nodding heads in the breeze....delighted they have shown.

 

Not without asking first Shiney...

Now smile again. Or get a rottie.

 

I think we may have one or two to spare. What you cannot get from these pictures is the wonderful scent of them.

 

Palustris: Wow! and Mega-Wow!!