So I finish this snowdrop odyssey with a look around my own garden. When I first moved into this house there was one small clump of snowdrops by the gate that divides the front garden to the back.
There were just a few when I first moved here, since then I have had to divide them as they were getting congested and I think they might get spread out a bit further again this year.
I bought some snowdrops in my first winter here and planted a few in the driveway, this little clump has bulked up quite well and will also be divided soon. When I first bought snowdrops for this garden I bought 200 or so a year of dried bulbs. As I write this I can hear people sighing and even sniggering as they will not be surprised to hear that probably only 50% of these ever started to grow. This is immensely disappointing when it happens and it was only from reading various garden magazines that I realised that buying 'in the green' was the best way forward. I now only buy in the green and it is far more satisfactory.
I largely plant snowdrops around the edges of the Wild Garden. Some are forming some nice clumps now, almost a little drift, a driftini?
This little planting is mainly from last year's snowdrop purchase and whilst they are not clumpy, they are growing and next year I expect to see more.
I am in the habit of buying snowdrops every time I visit a snowdrop garden. Just a little pot, usually spending no more than £3 or £4. I plant them in specific places like these three by the medlar tree and note where I have planted them in my garden journal. If I re-visit a garden then I will plant further purchases nearby so it becomes that particular area.
I am so pleased I will be dividing clumps this year as well as buying another 200 (in the green). It is not quite a snowdrop garden yet....
but check back in about ten years and I reckon it could be by then.Posts written about snowdrops visited this year:
Hodsock Priory
Little Ponton Hall
Easton Walled Gardens
Buckminster
Launde Abbey
Calke Abbey and Dimminsdale
