Snowdrops

Snowdrops Extraordinaires from the Temple Nursery Open Garden

April 4, 2011

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I visited Hitch Lyman’s collection of snowdrops courtesy the Garden Conservancy’s Open Gardens program. Hitch owns the Temple Nursery, the premier snowdrop nursery in the United States, with over 400 different varieties on site, though only a fraction of them are offered for sale each year. Four hundred [...]

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Not Your Ordinary Snowdrops

March 28, 2011

There are snowdrops, and then there are snowdrops. I, for the most part, have been content with the Galanthus nivalis (pictured below) I was given many years ago, which have multiplied greatly from my division and their own efforts at self-propagation. Others become obsessed with differences in pedicels, spathes, and inner and outer petals. We [...]

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Snowdrops, Winter Aconites, Crocus: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2010

March 15, 2010
Eranthis, winter aconite

Another March, another mud season in full swing. The snowdrops that had barely opened five days ago are now in full flower: The snowdrops that were buried under snow on March 7th are now in full bud, as you can see on the left. This is the path in the Secret Garden that I brag [...]

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Choose locations to plant fall bulbs now

March 10, 2010
snow melting around stump

In January, the snowdrops in the Secret Garden looked like this: This Sunday just passed–March 7th–those same snowdrops looked like this: Such are the vagaries of an upstate New York winter. Since then, the temperatures have been mild and the sunshine brilliant, and the snow is receding. This, my fellow cold climate gardeners, is the [...]

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First Snowdrops: Status update

March 10, 2010
garden tweet

First snowdrops bloomed today *and* it got up to 61F. Yes, mud season is here!

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Hitch Lyman’s Snowdrops in NY Times

April 16, 2009

The only nursery selling snowdrops exclusively, in the NYTimes today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/garden/16garden.html

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Scenes from snowdrop heaven

April 12, 2008

Photo of Temple Nursery snowdrop courtesy Craig Cramer. All rights reserved. True to his word, Craig of Ellis Hollow did indeed visit the Temple Nursery on Open Garden Day, and took pictures. If you haven’t stopped over to read his account and get a glimpse of the variety possible within the genus Galanthus, now would [...]

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Visit Snowdrop Heaven: The Temple Nursery

March 27, 2008

My main snowdrop “patch” exactly a year ago. They are not so far along this year. Click the photo for a close-up With all my blathering on about snowdrops, I almost forgot to mention that Hitch Lyman’s garden will be the Garden Conservancy’s first New York state event for their 2008 Open Garden Days on [...]

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Early spring blossoms: Crocus and snowdrops

March 24, 2008

The temperatures are still dropping into the teens every night (last night’s low: 17.5F or -8C) and even when the high hits 40F (4C) the brisk wind makes it feel chillier. But at least a hurried stroll around the premises is now rewarded with signs that Spring is slowly making inroads in Winter’s territory. These [...]

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Snowdrops: When Does a Bud Become a Bloom?

March 16, 2008

You tell me: do I have blooms for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day? These snowdrops are the furtherest along of all that I have. They have “dropped”; that is, their buds are no longer pointing up, but have been released from their sheaths and are hanging from their pedicels. Now these…

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My first glimpse of snowdrops

December 30, 2007

It got up to 51 F yesterday, so I took a walk to see what I could see. And what did I see, but my first glimpse of snowdrops: What! You can’t see them? Look closer: Oh…you didn’t think I meant snowdrop flowers, did you? For that you’ll have to wait another two-and-a-half months. Seriously.

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Snowdrop division: The patient gardener is rewarded

March 27, 2007

Good things come to those who wait. At least ten years ago, I planted the first of these snowdrops lining the path to the Secret Garden. You will have to click on the photo to enlarge it in order to see them, because they are the ones way in the back, on the far side [...]

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Snowdrop Race

January 5, 2006

Old Roses has won the snowdrop race, but IBOY made a fine showing. Me? I won’t even start looking for snowdrops till February, but I’ll be lucky to find any before March. And what about the Southerners? How far south can one go and still grow snowdrops? These snowdrops were blooming in the Secret Garden [...]

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