I'm here for you :) Not too many people grow this, I think because it wasn't readily available, but you can buy packaged bulbs everywhere now. In case you haven't seen them, the flowers are tiny but very pretty.

{{gwi:2117284}}

Free from lime? Don't think it matters. I grow them in limy soil. Planting late probably isn't good, they seem to be slow to establish. I gave up on mine the first year, then they appeared almost overnight. I have them in deciduous shade, sandy soil, very dry in summer (very dry for England) but continually moist in winter. Not waterlogged, I don't think they like waterlogged.

Thank you. :-)))

I am very sorry to have missed it, and I will try again.

It was in company with Anemone sylvestris, some Epimedium, Sanguinaria canadensis and a hulking great Dicksonia. Clearly not posh enough.

In another post you mention you have three cherry trees. Did you plant the P.s. at the foot of one of these?

And, perhaps a touch of gypsum or dolomite.

The best of the coming season to you shrubs'n'bulbs.

Yes, between a cherry tree and a small maple and within the rootzone of a large birch. Its near a patch of Cyclamen coum, in a slightly sunnier spot than the Cyclamen.

Good. Breathe in, Granny Smith apple. Another bulb is coming to stay!

Thank you for the extra info.