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Yippee Ive got my first snowdrop here in north bucks

No snowdrop flowers yet, only leaves. Got a few flowers on the forsythia behind the shed, and one of the primroses has been flowering since September.

Just noticed some purple primulas are flowering at the bottom of the garden.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

My daffs are poking through the soil but I don't have a single snowdrop in the garden - keep saying I will buy bulbs and plant them but never seem to remember at the right time

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

odd thing happened here regarding snowdrops - I planted a load of bulbs back in early October, one came up (and flowered!!) within a couple of weeks!

Himself (Snowdrop) says it was the advance scout *groan

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Suzie

I don't have any snow drop in my garden but my narcissus are coming ( around 5 cm)...is that means spring is coming sooner next year ?
Would really love that....

momol

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Hello Uglygourd. I don't know what that means. I must have a look round and see what I have. I know that crocus don't grow for me anymore - it's too warm. Half a degree in average temperature is all it takes. Maybe it's getting too warm for snowdrops here.

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

My scarlet runners are still blooming away since last summer. What does that say about climate change?

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

Snowdrops are better planted 'in the green' than from bulbs. These can often be very dried up and not all will grow. You see snowdrops advertised in Feb/March time and they are lifted when the flowers have finished. Plant them so the white stem above the bulb doesn't show and they usually take very well.

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thanks for that advice Flum. There are loads growing on the grass verge at Madmax's parents house - could nick some of them when flowering is over.

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Good idea Shirl get them when the flowers are just dying and set them in 2s or 3s I was once told they dont like to be alone!! I dont know if this was a wind up or true but i always put 2 in a hole and it works I have a big clump of double headed ones that started as a clump of about 8 that I spotted on my future father in laws earth dirt in his builders yard!! 30 years on Ive got about 100 odd and a husband from him!!