Snowdrops

Umpty six years ago i planted hundreds of snowdrops in my lawn after seeing a wonderful display in somebody else's. I have leaves but never never flowers. Why?:cry:

 

On occasion I have fed the lawn but I am afraid not very often. I think the poor bulbs would have had time to recover from high nitrogen overdose:hehe: Always been a mystery to me

 

Shame, there's nothing more beautiful than an expanse of snowdrops.

They're supposed to do better planted in the green, but surely after all this time they'd have recovered?

 

I did plant them in the green. I wish I could say I did it because it was better but in reality I did it so I could see where they were going.

 

Could it be to do with the depth the bulbs were planted at? I know some plants that grow from a bulb expend such a lot of their energy getting up through the ground that if they are buried too deep they are simply to exhausted to flower.

 

Clueless you may have a very valid point there. I wonder if I should dig up my lawn or go order some more snowdrops and try again.

 

I am thinking its the depth also. Two summers ago I split and widened my snowdrop area. All I recall doing was making trenches with my little trowel about 2 to 3 inches deep. I had unearth lots of them, since they had been in that area about 10 years. So I just quickly kinda poured them in the irregular trenches and hand covered them. Later I put 2 inches of mulch on top. They are peeking up now by the way, and little white heads showing.
If it helps any for depth also, when I plant some little young annuals in that area, I can accidently bump into a snowdrop bulb. And those are the annuals in the little plastic break away containers, about 1/4 cup soil about in the container. So its that shallow.

 

I presume you aren't mowing them down too early in the Spring? They die down earlier than Daffs naturalised in the lawn - but they also get hard to spot once the grass is growing up. We don't cut any of the grass where we have naturalised bulbs until we see the farmers taking their hay crops - early part of June I expect.

 

Last year my neighbour was clearing an area of dense thorn bushes and trees, there were snowdrops underneath. I dug out a lot of them and planted the clumps in my garden, beautiful clumps of snowdrops now. I also have a large stack of logs for the open fire. He also suggested I help myself to topsoil that came from a job in the river valley as well as any plastic underground pipe I need for drainage. Great Guy.