Can't keep up with horticultural advancement. According to the garden
this month you shouldn't dig up snowdrops in the green. It's not good
for the roots they say. instead you should transplant them just as the
leaves die or even when the leaves are gone.
Cor blimey! So we've all been doing it wrong for all these years!!
Still i think the main reason might be because you should never ever
bother with a snowdrop bulb that has dried out, it just won't take and I
guess digging them up as they are growing is the best way of making sure
they aren't dried out!

My autumn flowering snowdrops have been in flower for ages now, since
November and they have flowered throughout the snow and have appeared
again s if nothing has happened still flowering away.

Funny thing with these types though, they don't seem to flower the first
year they are planted but suddenly come up 2 years later - 6 of us
shared some three years back and all of us had the same result!

Happy new year anyway to everyone on the UK rec. gardening newsgroup!

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
Can't keep up with horticultural advancement. According to the garden
this month you shouldn't dig up snowdrops in the green. It's not good
for the roots they say. instead you should transplant them just as the
leaves die or even when the leaves are gone.
Cor blimey! So we've all been doing it wrong for all these years!!
Still i think the main reason might be because you should never ever
bother with a snowdrop bulb that has dried out, it just won't take and
I guess digging them up as they are growing is the best way of making
sure they aren't dried out!

My autumn flowering snowdrops have been in flower for ages now, since
November and they have flowered throughout the snow and have appeared
again s if nothing has happened still flowering away.

Funny thing with these types though, they don't seem to flower the
first year they are planted but suddenly come up 2 years later - 6 of
us shared some three years back and all of us had the same result!

Happy new year anyway to everyone on the UK rec. gardening newsgroup!

Janet

And a happy new year to you and yours too Dalmatian Janet. And many more
of them! The Stachyurus praecox you so kindly sent me is coming along
really well.

BTW, it seems I have also been doing the wrong things with snowdrops for
a number of years. I have no intention of changing my methods as I work
on the basis of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

Best to all for 2011.

--
Gopher .... I know my place!

"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...
Can't keep up with horticultural advancement. According to the garden this
month you shouldn't dig up snowdrops in the green. It's not good for the
roots they say. instead you should transplant them just as the leaves die
or even when the leaves are gone.
Cor blimey! So we've all been doing it wrong for all these years!!

Hi Janet, I have no personal expertise, but Goole has provided this site:-

http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...nowdrop-bulbs/


I think it answers your question.

Happy New Year

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.

Bill

On Dec 31, 12:36*pm, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Can't keep up with horticultural advancement. According to the garden
this month you shouldn't dig up snowdrops in the green. It's not good
for the roots they say. instead you should transplant them just as the
leaves die or even when the leaves are gone.
Cor blimey! So we've all been doing it wrong for all these years!!
Still i think the main reason might be because you should never ever
bother with a snowdrop bulb that has dried out, it just won't take and I
guess digging them up as they are growing is the best way of making sure
they aren't dried out!

My autumn flowering snowdrops have been in flower for ages now, since
November and they have flowered throughout the snow and have appeared
again s if nothing has happened still flowering away.

Funny thing with these types though, they don't seem to flower the first
year they are planted but suddenly come up 2 years later - 6 of us
shared some three years back and all of us had the same result!

Happy new year anyway to everyone on the UK rec. gardening newsgroup!

Janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Probably meant you shouldn't dig up snowdrops around the green, leave
them for all the village to enjoy.
I think we will be OK as long as no one tells the Snowdrops that it's
not good for them.
I work on the principal that what the plants dont know never hurts
them.
Have a great New Year
David

On Dec 31, 5:52*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-12-31 12:36:23 +0000, Janet Tweedy said:





Can't keep up with horticultural advancement. According to the garden
this month you shouldn't dig up snowdrops in the green. It's not good
for the roots they say. instead you should transplant them just as the
leaves die or even when the leaves are gone.
Cor blimey! So we've all been doing it wrong for all these years!!
Still i think the main reason might be because you should never ever
bother with a snowdrop bulb that has dried out, it just won't take and
I guess digging them up as they are growing is the best way of making
sure they aren't dried out!

My autumn flowering snowdrops have been in flower for ages now, since
November and they have flowered throughout the snow and have appeared
again s if nothing has happened still flowering away.

Funny thing with these types though, they don't seem to flower the
first year they are planted but suddenly come up 2 years later - 6 of
us shared some three years back and all of us had the same result!

Happy new year anyway to everyone on the UK rec. gardening newsgroup!

Janet

I think your theory about digging them before the bulbs have dried out
is the key to the whole issue. *This sounds like a bit of
hair-splitting from that pov. * Planting them 'in the green' not only
helps people to visualise where their snowdrops will flower next year,
it ensures absolutely fresh bulbs. *Those poor little desiccated things
in packets seem to fail more often than they succeed. *Tomorrow I must
go out and see if any of ours are giving that crisp underfoot feel to
the grass. *We don't have any of the early ones you have so have to
wait a bit longer for those welcome signs of spring coming.
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Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon- Hide quoted text -

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I never quite bought the planting green advice. I've always done it at
the last moment while you can still see where they are. It's getting
them up moist and back in the ground still moist that's important as
you've already said.

Rod

It illustrates her question, but doesn't answer it.

Her question is "For all these years we've been advised to move snowdrops in the green - your url is an example f this - but the Royal Horticultural Society/===== magazine now advises against this - why?"

In article , Bill Grey
writes

Hi Janet, I have no personal expertise, but Goole has provided this site:-

http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...nowdrop-bulbs/


I think it answers your question.

Happy New Year

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.

Bill




I would think that the RHS would be more likely to be correct though
Bill. It's in the latest "The Garden" magazine.

Janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article
,
Dave Hill writes
I work on the principal that what the plants dont know never hurts
them.
I like that David!

I would have thought that it might mean just that snowdrops dug up and
dried never take and the special ones can be expensive!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Sacha
writes
We don't have any of the early ones you have so have to wait a bit
longer for those welcome signs of spring coming.
--


They aren't early Sacha they are specifically autumn ones. I'll put
one or two in the post when they die down eventually, but as i say,
we've all found that they never seem to come up the first autumn after
replanting

They came from originally, Dowling Munro a sort of local expert on
Galanthus

Janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk