The weather's been crazy, to put it mildly. With this second, post-Christmas thaw the snow is mostly gone. Monday it almost reached 50°F and it wasn't raining, so I decided to walk around the garden and check on things.
Snowdrops
The Galanthus Gala: Where Snowdrop Addicts Get Their Fix
May 13, 2020 – Posted in: Events, SnowdropsGalanthus is the scientific name for snowdrops. A Galanthus Gala celebrates all things snowdrop--the friendships that arise and the snowdrops themselves. Want to know how much a galanthophile will pay for a snowdrop? Click through and read on.
A River of Snowdrops? You Can Grow That!
April 5, 2012 – Posted in: How-to, New House, New Gardens, SnowdropsWe noticed something about our new house this spring: no snowdrops! I set out last week to rectify that omission. My "river" of snowdrops at our old house was fifteen years in the making, but you can grow that!All you need is a dirt-stabbing tool, a clump of snowdrops, and pig-headed determination.Think I'm kidding? Above [...]
Snowdrop Bouquets
March 10, 2012 – Posted in: New House, New Gardens, SnowdropsOne six ounce glass of snowdrops… yields……eleven small but exquisite snowdrop bouquets. Snowdrops have a fragrance that is similar to sweet alyssum or certain daffodils (not poeticus or jonquils). We picked these at the old garden and the truck was filled with the scent of them on the way home. I will be moving as [...]
Snowdrops Extraordinaires from the Temple Nursery Open Garden
April 4, 2011 – Posted in: SnowdropsAs 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 [...]
Not Your Ordinary Snowdrops
March 28, 2011 – Posted in: SnowdropsThere 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 [...]
Snowdrops, Winter Aconites, Crocus: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2010
March 15, 2010 – Posted in: Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingAnother 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 [...]
Choose locations to plant fall bulbs now
March 10, 2010 – Posted in: Garden chores, Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingIn 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 [...]
First Snowdrops: Status update
March 10, 2010 – Posted in: Garden Tweets, SnowdropsFirst snowdrops bloomed today *and* it got up to 61F. Yes, mud season is here!
Hitch Lyman’s Snowdrops in NY Times
April 16, 2009 – Posted in: Garden Tweets, SnowdropsThe only nursery selling snowdrops exclusively, in the NYTimes today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/garden/16garden.html
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