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Mar 2021
9:45am, 10 Mar 2021
71,137 posts
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Hanneke
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Mar 2021
9:46am, 10 Mar 2021
71,138 posts
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Hanneke
That's better! Fetch glitch I think...
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Mar 2021
9:48am, 10 Mar 2021
23,879 posts
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EvilPixie
love snowdrops too
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Mar 2021
9:50am, 10 Mar 2021
41,959 posts
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.B.
Pretty Hanneke. We want some for next year but missed them this year as only just sorting the garden.
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Mar 2021
9:52am, 10 Mar 2021
71,141 posts
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Hanneke
They are just so fabulous, aren't they Pix? And these are late flowering, clearly different and apparently not temperamental. Also this person sells them in clumps of 5 with at least 3 flowering bulbs for the same price as others sell a single bulb. Snowdrops do not do well on their own I have found. More likely than not they vanish while when cheek by jowl with at least 2 other bulbs, they tend to happily double themselves the next year...
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Mar 2021
9:54am, 10 Mar 2021
23,880 posts
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EvilPixie
they are so delicate looking but then you see them in the snow looking so strong
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Mar 2021
9:55am, 10 Mar 2021
71,142 posts
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Hanneke
B, now is the time to buy them! They don't establish well from dormant bulbs and should be planted in the green as it is called. Now that the flowers are over, they get dug up and split. I just finished splitting and transplanting the last of my big clumps last weekend. So if you have a suitable spot for them, go for it! Plant in little bunches of at least 3 bulbs. I tend to do threes, fives and sevens, so it looks more natural.
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Mar 2021
9:59am, 10 Mar 2021
7,403 posts
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The Great Raemondo
Snowdrops are gorgeous - wasn't there a snowdrop-mania thing with rare varieties being sold for thousands and thousands of pounds, like the tulipmania that had a massive effect on the Dutch economy that time?
Newt weights bench just arrived (decathlon's own brand basic finest, oh yes), so assembling that and rearranging the craftoriffice to fit it in will probably be my main jingling of the day.
I had enough TOIL hours to take today off, and so far I've done nothing except have a lie in, eat breakfast, and watch Agents of Shield with the cat curled up on my lap.
It's not newty, but it's been extremely enjoyable.
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Mar 2021
10:07am, 10 Mar 2021
71,147 posts
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Hanneke
TGR that sounds like the perfect day off! 
And there still is galanthomania and people like me are called galanthophiles.
A few years ago an extremely rare small clump of snowdrops was stolen from Colesbourne Manor worth thousands 😱 never to be seen again. So when they open to the public a few weekends in February, they now have metal detectors and guards by the rare ones. Extraordinary!
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Mar 2021
10:08am, 10 Mar 2021
71,148 posts
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Hanneke
I mean, everyone gets in through a metal detector so we cannot smuggle in a trowel to dig up snowdrops!!!!! The thought alone!!!
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