snowdrops in the woodland garden
Our Woodland Garden is a little over a year old.
After the ground was cleared of brambles and nettles and the dead and diseased trees had been removed, we set out a log edged path and planted dogwood, holly, Christmas Box, firethorn and cotoneaster.
These young shrubs were underplanted with the snowdrops we had propagated by division from a clump found growing around a Beech tree at the end of the Cedar walk.
One year on, the snowdrops are paying us back with a beautiful display of nodding white flowers. We've continued our propagation-by-division strategy and have a bed of snowdrops ready for transerring into the woodland garden as soon as they have finished flowering.
I did try a second propagation strategy: that was 'scale division'.
I sliced snowdrop bulbs and allowed them to create their own tiny bulblets in a dark drawer. And it worked!! Today I planted fifteen small snowdrops around the base of our owl sculpture. I will water them with dilute leachate from our wormery in the hope that they bulk up this spring and then add to the drifts of pretty little flowers in 2014.
After the ground was cleared of brambles and nettles and the dead and diseased trees had been removed, we set out a log edged path and planted dogwood, holly, Christmas Box, firethorn and cotoneaster.These young shrubs were underplanted with the snowdrops we had propagated by division from a clump found growing around a Beech tree at the end of the Cedar walk.
One year on, the snowdrops are paying us back with a beautiful display of nodding white flowers. We've continued our propagation-by-division strategy and have a bed of snowdrops ready for transerring into the woodland garden as soon as they have finished flowering.
I did try a second propagation strategy: that was 'scale division'.
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| bulbs propagated by scale division |
4 comments:
I've not heard of that method of division. I might have to try it next year!
Love the snowdrops!
We have their relative, Leucojum, flowering now. It's definitely one of my favorites.
Scale division is worth trying Kev, especially for more prized bulbs....but its sloooow.
Leucojum's are on the list Lisa, but I understand they do better where it is warm and moist. Our soil is sandy so they may not be best suited to our conditions. But we won't know till we try.
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