Looking after your snowdrops
Where to plant your snowdrops. Shade or Full Sun? Whether you decide to plant in shade, or in more open ground in full sun, depends on the variety of snowdrop you are planting. Most snowdrops will enjoy dappled shade, but a good proportion will be happy in full sun – alpinus and platyphyllus naturally occur […]
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Spotlight on 3 Snowdrops – S. Arnott, James Backhouse and Magnet
The three snowdrops that I am turning the spotlight on in this blog are the three cultivars which started the collection here at Bruckhills Croft. Background Shortly after moving to the croft in 1991, we had discovered that as well as the Common Snowdrop – Galanthus nivalis we also had some Double Common Snowdrops – […]
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Snowdrop Poetry
In addition to collecting snowdrops I also appear to be collecting various snowdrop themed items. In this blog I introduce you to some poems I have overlaid onto photographs of snowdrops from the garden… February by Hartley Coleridge Snowdrop time by Mary Webb The Snowdrop by Nessie Gell The Snowdrop […]
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Scented Snowdrops
Flowers of many plant species produce a scent, and snowdrops are no exception. Just like there is a huge range of flower shape and colour, there is an equally large range of scents, or perfumes; and no two are exactly the same. Galanthus ‘S. Arnott’ – most famous for its ‘honeyed’ scent What is the […]
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Virescent Snowdrops
Virescent Snowdrops We snowdrop lovers do like to drop in the odd Latin word specific to snowdrops when talking about our blooms. Virescent is one such word, but is actually a common term in horticulture and is simply an adjective meaning greenish. It comes from the early Latin word viridis meaning simply green, and […]
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Mellow Yellow – meet some of the yellow snowdrops in our garden
We love yellow snowdrops so much that we have dedicated a whole border to them. The border in question is our Blue and Yellow Border which in Spring and Summer is filled with plants that only have blue or yellow flowers and include such popular plants as Phlomis russeliana, Geranium ‘Buxton Blue’, Buddleia weyeriana ‘Sungold’ […]
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Autumn Flowering Snowdrops
You think of Autumn and the garden and you think of falling leaves, harvesting apples and maybe migrating birds visiting to strip the Rowan and holly trees of their berries, but like many galanthophiles my mind turns to Autumn flowering snowdrops. The first snowdrop to flower here at Bruckhills Croft (mid September) is Galanthus reginae-olgae […]
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My Favourite Snowdrop
People often ask me, out of all the snowdrops we grow, which is my favourite snowdrop. With so many species and cultivars, how on earth do you begin to choose? Do you glibly say “the one I am looking at”? Do you reel off a long list drawn from every type – “this is […]
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JULY – The time to lift dormant bulbs
Mid to late July is the perfect time for us to lift, divide and replant dormant snowdrop bulbs. We have opened our garden for Scotland’s Gardens at the beginning of the month, so all our energies have gone into getting it ready up to that point, so now the garden is as tidy as […]
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