buying Snowdrops

Following on from my other snow drop thread does anyone know a good site for buying bulbs on the green. They seem to be very expensive as I look on Google
Thank you:luv:

 

Sometimes gardening magazines do offers. If you see any, shout as I want to get some too!

Have you tried garden centres/nurseries/Homebase/B&Q selling them off cheap as they've almost finished flowering?

 

It's Ok folks i got some at a good price

 

Sorry Sussex. here is the link

http://www.gee-tee.co.uk/shop/bulbs-in-the-green/snowdrops/galanthus-nivalis

 

Cheers, good value I think.

 

I thought so. Some places were charging astronomical prices £15 for 5 bulbs or something equally stupid :skp:

 

How are you going to plant them? I want to go for the naturalisation look in the lawn too, but do you lift a section of turf and plant the snowdrops, then replace turf?

 

If you are wishing to propagate them-and who can resist, then you are best to plant them into top notch cultivated and composted soil for the first year, and after they are just out of flower next year you can lift them and find lots of baby bulblets under them, which you should immediately plant in their desired position and then doing the same again with some of those for another years worth of propagation-at least that what Christopher Lloyd says in Adventurous Gardener.

 

"do you lift a section of turf and plant the snowdrops, then replace turf?"

I do that with Daffs - dig a square piece the width of the spade, and about half a spit deep, put one bulb in each corner, then replace the turf. I dig the "squares" haphazardly" and the result looks fairly natural.

Snowdrops need to be planted less deep. I reckon you would get away with inserting spade, wiggling, holding the snowdrops in the crack at the right depth and firming back again with your boot. Two or three snowdrops per slit-length. Each "slit" can be done haphazardly to create a random-planting effect.

For Daffs an alternative is to "scatter" the bulbs over the lawn, and then use a bulb planter to put each one in where it falls. I find bulb planters hard work in turf. Something similar would do for Snowdrops I guess.

 

Plenty on eBay - examples : singles 7.50 + 2.50 p&p per hundred, doubles 12.50 inc p&p

Snowdrop eBay search

 

Sounds like that would work. And a great excuse not to mow the "lawn" for ages afterwards :gnthb:

 

How deep should you plant them? Remember I have lost a load so i really want these to succeed. I have decided this is a wonderful opportunity to not feed or weed the lawn. Should I use some compost from the heap too? My front lawn is well drained although the rest of the garden can be like a bog. I reckon there is a lot of rubble far down. I think it used to be a yard hence the drainage. It dries out quickly in drought conditions which are fairly rare here.:lollol:

 

** BE CAREFUL IF BUYING ON E-BAY!**
Make sure they are selling cultivated stock and not stuff "stolen" from the wild.

I would only use a reputable company.

Try www.eurobulbs.co.uk £7:00 for 100 + £2:95 p&P (cheaper still for bulk!)

 

If you are buying them as bulbs then roughly twice their height in depth-for me that meens when planted the soil level is up to the first joint on my thumb.

 

I like the method Kristen described.