CLXX Do You See the Snowdrops?

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Don't give up hope yet. I don't have any direct experience- just planted winter aconite for the first time last fall, and I don't have any snowdrops (will remedy that soon) but spring bulbs are often off schedule their first year. For example, fall 2006 I planted Tete-a-tete daffodils. I thought I had lost them because they're supposed to come up very early and there was no sign of them last spring, while my neighbors' tetes were up and blooming. They eventually did come up and put on an amazing show... in late spring. That said, aconite corms don't have a very long shelf life and they might have expired before being planted. I tried planting snowdrops once before and they didn't come up... probably because I bought them at a box store, but I have heard that they can be hard to establish. But keep an eye out for them- it's way too early to worry.
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I've got snowdrops instead of snow
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Yes, its been quite mild. I do recall a year (pre-garden journal, or I would look it up) shorty after we started gardening that was very mild (1997?1998?) up until the middle of January when it proceeded to drop down to Zero and sub zero temps for the next month or so...I recall it because there was new growth on the roses in my rose 'hedge' in January. Even as a farily new gardener I knew that wasnt good. Lost most of those roses that year. Anyway , we may be able to see the hellebore hyrids, sometimes nicknamed 'Christmas rose' actually bloom at Christmas this year. A hellebore that usually blooms in Spring is sending up a flower shoot now. Another hellebore , foetidis, which carries its flower shoots over the winter and blooms in early spring, is trying to bloom now.....While acceptable in a genaerlly mild climate zone like England, I cant imagine that January and February will stay this mild. May take a look at the snow crocus and other eary spring blooming spots as well. May also put out some slug bait, the foxgloves look like they are being chewed on :)
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Do your snowdrops naturalize?
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That is great news! Thank you very much, Katob. I was not sure if they are hard or easy propagating from seeds. Right now, I have 4 types of snowdrops. The only one I am certain of its identity is the nivalis flore pleno. The other 3 are all single snowdrops but their foilage all look different. The ones I got from a trade was supposed to be G. elwesii but the plants and flowers are too small to be called giant snowdrop. The foliage of this snow drop is the most blueish grey like the color of spruce needles. The ones I bought as G. nivalis have green foliage and the flowers and plants themselves are like 5 times the size of the G.elwessi from the trade. The third ones I got from K. van bougendien were supposed to be g. Nivalis but they have glossy bright green foliage with smallish flowers. Do you happen to have photos of your g. Nivalis and g. elwessi, Katob? I am trying to figure out which is which and what is what. i think they are all mislabeled.
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St. Patrick's snowdrops :-)
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So pretty, Woody! Every fall, I think that I should plant snowdrops and more crocuses out front. I love the way it looks when the lawn is speckled with their flowers, but somehow, I never quite get around to it. Sigh.
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