I planted 500 snowdrop bulbs a few years ago @gazza - nowt seemed to appear the following season. But this spring - some 3 years later - they seem to have appeared on mass on our communal Green.
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Good on you.
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Snowdrops are easy to transplant or buy, you just need to know how and when. The problem with dormant bulbs is that they don’t like drying out at all. So if you buy them from a (let’s say generic, cheap, average) garden centre or online, they could have been out of the soil for weeks, if not months. This is bad. You can buy and transplant now in the green. If it’s going to be a bulb, you need to buy from a decent snowdrop supplier in August. This way, it will be dug up and supplied to you within a few days and then you plant immediately. If you’re transplanting yourself, the best time is August and do it the same day.
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My snowdrop bulbs cost me between £65-£150 each😂
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In my last two gardens I planted snowdrop bulbs and was just about to give up after two or three years when they suddenly started to multiply, so patience is essential.
It is also best to transplant snowdrops in the green rather than as bulbs in my experience.
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The Crocus in our lawn are doing quite well this year. Usually they have been flattened by the rain by now, but they survived on the dry spring.
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Preparing the new lot:
I feel being an archeologist. It seems that they didnt dispose the old bathroom properly but just dumped all the stones in the garden.
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Spring cleaned, sharpened and oiled my wife’s secateurs. Only need sharpening 3 times a year, but I always get the best tools for the job. 
Road tested on the apple tree in the front garden.
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I still didn’t clean the garden:
But nature is coming:
Most perennials seem to emerge better than last year - as they should since that was their first year.
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Got some new tools, so before first use, I gave the cherry wood handles a coat of boiled linseed oil. Ahh the smell, cricket bats, warmest day of the year, Mo and gardening.
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Cleaned my Greenhouse inside and out today ready to start planting my chilli seeds. Also prepared the ground to receive 36 Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Field Maple Hedge Plants. Whilst out in the garden saw two Bumble Bees flying between bushes.
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Are those the incredibly rare ones ?
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Ian
Yes rare/expensive, although getting cheaper now. The galanthus world is a bit crazy, that’s why I joined it
Golden Fleece - was the world record holder for most expensive bulb £1,390 about 9 years ago. The first yellow skirted snowdrop.
And here’s a single one in front of my Moorcroft vase they did as a special.
Treasure Island. A special from the late Veronica Cross garden. The largest yellow snowdrop.
And Pieces of Eight. Another one from Veronica Cross. Very round large petals with dark green markings. Very slow to multiply. She had a patch in her garden that produced many stunning snowdrops and called them all based on the theme of Treasure Island.
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Stunning.
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Really lovely. My wife’s father planted a bank of snowdrops in the sloped garden in Swanage, they were spactacular. She had his grave covered with them.
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A stack load of bulbs arrived today, including one Crinuim Powelli Album as you can see the bulb is almost as big as the flower vase
To misquote Richard Dreyfus “I think I’m going to need a bigger pot”
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Today I planted a variety of lungwort called Diana Clare - especially for pollinators
(Stock picture)
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I planted many in the green snowdrops on a river bank beside the bird hide where the departed daughter liked to sit and watch the birds before the effort became too much.
I went back during spring and the whole bank,undercut by the tide,had fallen into the river and the foot path diverted.
I was upset but t’other daughter thought it the most accurate and sad parable of the little ‘uns life. She would have been amused and we both had a laugh with her.
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