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 last […]
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Snowdrop Race
January 5th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 6 Comments
Categories: Plant info · Catalog review · What's up/blooming · Snowdrops
Keywords: bloom dates · bloom records · snowdrop · snowdrops
The first blossom of 2004
March 9th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
Well, the first blossom was a snowdrop, but it wasn’t any of the snowdrops I’ve been checking on regularly. It was a clump of double snowdrops given to me by my garden buddy Bub, which I had planted near my Cornus alternifolia ‘Argentea’ (now deceased) and had forgotten about. This bed is located in […]
Categories: What's up/blooming
Keywords: bloom dates · bloom records · snowdrop · snowdrops
Snowdrop patrol
March 5th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · Comments Off
The snow is off the snowdrops in the Secret Garden. For all I know it was gone yesterday, but I was out all day running errands. These are up just as high as the ones that the snow melted off earlier this week. None of them, however, look like they’re going to bloom today, and […]
Categories: What's up/blooming
Keywords: bloom dates · bloom records · snowdrop · snowdrops
Counting the days till spring
February 26th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
I don’t keep consistently good garden records, but one detail I have tracked faithfully since I planted my first flower, is the date of the first bloom around here. For you Southerners who have things blooming throughout the winter, I’m talking about the first visible bloom, when the snow has melted enough for me to […]
Categories: What's up/blooming · Snowdrops
Keywords: bloom dates · bloom records · crocus · crocuses · snowdrop · snowdrops
Snowdrops
March 22nd, 2003 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
The snowdrops in the Secret Garden are all blooming now, the same ones I tried to will out of the ground earlier. These are my most rapidly increasing snowdrops. I got them from a friend who found them growing in a field near her house. Presumably there was once a house and garden where she […]
Categories: Plant info · What's up/blooming · Snowdrops
Keywords: snowdrop · snowdrops
My First Garden Patrol of the Year
March 17th, 2003 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
This is our third day of mild weather (in the 60s today!) but my first opportunity to get out and take a look. There are snowdrops well up in the Secret Garden with snow all around them. I wonder if the rest of the snowdrops there are up, too, and just hidden from sight? Maybe […]
Categories: Garden chores · What's up/blooming
Keywords: snowdrop · snowdrops
Snow
February 17th, 2003 by Kathy Purdy · Comments Off
It started last night, and the weather service is predicting 12 to 20 inches of accumulation. My cousin in Maryland got 26 inches. This has been the kind of winter to severely aggravate cabin fever. Snow so deep the kids can’t play outside, and temps so cold they would be back inside so soon it […]
Categories: Weather · Plant info · Snowdrops
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