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Drove to Truro, Nova Scotia ... to check out a reported snowdrop wood in northern NS.
Out of reciprocity, where can I see a wood full of Trilliums in England?
...... The entire property is 35 hectares, the bulbs are in about 2 hectacres. Those 2h are in serious need of branch and tree-thinning, the understory has a good deal of brambles and blackberries and it wasn't until we got to the restaurant and looked at one another that we realized we looked like we'd been in a cat fight or two. Still picking thorns out.........john
Nobody owns it Seems to be an extraordinary place to make a gardeners heaven!Maybe the brambles are an advantage, not many venture a trip into them
Well 'Green Light' has not been widely distributed so I bet you have the most northerly example of that particular snowdrop.I'm surprised that Barnes has proved quite so difficult. One might imagine that it would flower and then fail to survive the winter but not to appear at all after being planted in the green seems just wrong. Slugs and snails will attack autumn-flowering snowdrops here in the UK; could that be your problem?
Could they have rotted away Leena?
I've just had my best ever year for snowdrop losses, or lack of them to be more precise. I have only lost one that I am aware of and that looked unhealthy when I potted it up last year. This might be good fortune or it might mean I am getting better at caring for my snowdrops. One thing that I did last year was to cover the majority of my snowdrops, the ones where it is possible, with a fine insect-mesh netting from the end of May to the beginning of September. If that worked then it means that many losses in previous years were down predation by insects that arrived from above and were blocked by the mesh netting.