Good US sources?

[JSzymon]

Casual searching shows that yall Brits are darn lucky with snowdrops- large varieties that are, per bulb, rather cheap. In the US, there is a much, much smaller range of nurseries, as far as I can tell, with more cost per bulb, and less of a selection. Does anyone know a good way to get them in the States? How about importing?

[Maggi Young]

 Hi!
There are suppliers in the States - some members of this forum!  Have a search  .... you may be pleasantly surprised at what you can get  "at home" !   (Naturally, I cannot  bring any to mind right this minute .... someone will help, I'm sure!) 

Some UK suppliers will send with CITES/Phyto etc to USA  , like Cornovium, for instance :
http://cornoviumsnowdrops.co.uk/page_3191106.html

[ArnoldT]

Here's one.  I have to say I have no experience with , though.

http://carolynsshadegardens.com/2014-snowdrop-catalogue/

and another that I've heard about for years.

No online presence.

he Temple Nursery   mail $4 to PO Box 591, Trumansburg NY, 14886.

[Maggi Young]

Carolyn Walker - a forumist-  -  Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA 
    carolynsshadegardens@verizon.net   will be able to advise you I'm sure.  http://carolynsshadegardens.com/ - her list is sold out already I believe. She may have hints about other sources though.

 Or Forumists  Rick Goodenough , South of Boston or "penstemon" in Colorado  who are keen galanthophiles   may have ideas about sources I expect.

 Some mentioned  in the forum :  U.S. supplier, Jerry Fritz' Linden Hill Gardens;
Carolyn Grahame    (raiser?) ;  Nancy Goodwin of Montrose Gardens, North Carolina, U.S.  (raiser?)

The North American  Bulb Suppliers listed in the sources page of the Pacific Bulb Society : not sure how many might supply galanthus though.
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Sources#NABulbs

[WimB]

There's Hitch Lyman's Temple nursery...attached his catalogue from 2014 (havent' got anything more recent)

[Maggi Young]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/garden/16garden.html?_r=0  for an article about Hitch Lyman.

I have read that you  can  send $4 to Hitch Lyman, Temple Nursery, Box 591, Trumansburg, NY 14886  for his  list .

[Carolyn Walker]

Casual searching shows that yall Brits are darn lucky with snowdrops- large varieties that are, per bulb, rather cheap. In the US, there is a much, much smaller range of nurseries, as far as I can tell, with more cost per bulb, and less of a selection. Does anyone know a good way to get them in the States? How about importing?

Thanks, Arnold and Maggie, for mentioning me and my snowdrop business.  Maggie, I am also Carolyn Grahame, my Facebook name, keep meaning to change that.  Here is a link to my catalogue: http://carolynsshadegardens.com/2016-snowdrop-catalogue/.  Unfortunately, I am completely sold out for 2016.  The catalogue comes out in mid-December.  If anyone would like to be on the list for an email giving advance notification of the 2017 catalogue, please send your full name and phone number to carolynsshadegardens@verizon.net.  Hitch Lyman (Temple Nursery) has already sent out his catalogue for 2016 so I think everyone on his list should have gotten it by now.

[Ding Dong]

http://www.cornoviumsnowdrops.co.uk/page_3191106.html

Cornvoium send to the US too

[Neil]

Rareplants send to the USA as well and only send out when dormant, from August to late Autumn

http://www.rareplants.co.uk/product-category/archive/galanthus-archive/

[JSzymon]

Thanks everyone! It seems i was a little late this year, oh well. Ill put myself on all the nurseries' catalog lists for next year. For Cornovium, it might still be cheaper to import from them. Rareplants has a lovely selection (they all do, really) but its somehow more expensive to import from than Cornovium. Maybe The Temple still has some.

I have some seedling snowdrops from pods I picked from an old, abandoned lot. How much variation can be expected?

[Maggi Young]

I have some seedling snowdrops from pods I picked from an old, abandoned lot. How much variation can be expected?

 Ah! That's the 64 thousand dollar question! It depends, as far asI can make out, on the original plants in the area. We hear often in these pages of  searches that have been made  through large populations where  practically no variation at all has been found, whereas other  naturalised  populations seem to throw up any number of  variants.

Those forumists who have the opportunity to examine wild populations can find  dizzying  variants/mutations, of course. I would  say sow  the seed and  see - if nothing else, you'll get new plants for your garden!

[Rick Goodenough]

Thanks everyone! It seems i was a little late this year, oh well. Ill put myself on all the nurseries' catalog lists for next year. For Cornovium, it might still be cheaper to import from them. Rareplants has a lovely selection (they all do, really) but its somehow more expensive to import from than Cornovium. Maybe The Temple still has some.

I have some seedling snowdrops from pods I picked from an old, abandoned lot. How much variation can be expected?

JSzymon, yes, you are right, our European friends are so fortunate to have such terrific access to commercially available Galanthus. All of the sources given above for the U.S. are on my list, and also, there are a few each year offered each year by Brent and Becky's Bulbs as well as a similar selection by McClure and Zimmerman. Far Reaches Farm often has some that a bit more collectable than these two. Jerry Fritz also offers Galanthus from his Linden Hill Garden each winter. You can Google to get contact details for all of these.

I was surprised at your point on Cornovium being more expensive since they are actually quite the opposite when comparing total costs unless you are comparing the price of buying one or two bulbs of more readily available varieties such as a S Arnott, then in that case it might be less to buy from a U.S. supplier. By the way, Cornovium still has an ample supply of very collectable Snowdrops for U.S. collectors, as I just made a second online order yesterday. Have fun...hope this helps. Rick

[Maggi Young]

I think you mis-read  the post, Rick - JSzymon said that rare plants was more expensive to send to the USA than Cornovium  - I'd guess they're mostly more expensive  per bulb than Cornovium too!

[Rick Goodenough]

I clearly did mis-read the post Maggie. Thank you for pointing that out and JSzymon, please accept my apologies. My speed reading needs to slow a bit. To make the point you actually were making is that many of us are able to share in the CITES and cross Atlantic shipping fees in the way Cornovium has structured that part of the pricing. A big win from this side of the pond.

[sgshaw]

JSzymon, 

The US suppliers have pretty much been named above.  I would only add Oddessy Bulbs in Lancaster, MA.  They will have a few species and occasional hybrids as well.  It's not the same kind of selection that our UK and European friends have, but let me add to what Rick said about Cornovium.  They still have some great bulbs available, and the bulbs I received last summer were at least double the size of bulbs that I had previously received from US suppliers like Brent and Becky's or Far Reaches Farm.  Some of the bulbs I received were the size of small tulip bulbs and planting them as dormant bulbs in summer is actually a more efficacious method of growing.  Good luck in finding the plants on your wish list.

Steve