pot grown V freshly lifted

[mark smyth]

The best snowdrops, by far, that I bought at the Garden House and Gala were the pot grown plants sold by Avon Bulbs and Wol & Sue Staines.Well done! I hope others follow.

I asked another seller, of Narcissus cyclamineus, if the plants were pot grown. He was a liar

I'm digusted at the seller who must have prized apart two flowering bulbs, before they had naturally split, in order to double the profit.

[bulborum]

Hello Mark

What do you mean
one bulb in one pot grown
and sold in that pot
or do you mean bulbs grown in pots
and the soil shaken off
and sold with a little potting soil
so the roots don't dry out

Roland

[mark smyth]

most sellers have dug their snowdrop and put them singly in pots of compost or in a plastic bag with some moss or compost

[Martin Baxendale]

Although I believe Wol and Sue's are actually grown in pots, not lifted and potted up just before the show. I have to agree, their snowdrops are superb quality.

[RichardW]

I sold in pots for many years and do prefer it, is much better/easier to display the plants for a start.

but I have some sympathy for the single bulb in a bag method, some of my pots would often contain more than 1 bulb , since they were potted a year before selling a small offset would sometimes flower and could be split, so I thought I should really be charging double, something three times but that seemed greedy & then they just wouldn't sell, so many left with a bargain.

if I was relying on making part of an income from sales that would be a difficult thing to see happening.

[johnw]

Although I believe Wol and Sue's are actually grown in pots, not lifted and potted up just before the show. I have to agree, their snowdrops are superb quality.

Now that's the way to do it, good for them not taking the expedient route.  What poor bulb likes to be yanked out of the ground in leaf and flower?  (Pretty much a summary of JohnG's Chedworth CGS talk 2009)  Amazing we have survivors at all, enough to send those markings into hibernation.

johnw

[Martin Baxendale]

John, Wol and Sue also do a dormant bulb  list in summer in addition to selling snowdrops growing and well-established in pots at flowering time, which is in my opinion the best of both worlds.

[art600]

John, Wol and Sue also do a dormant bulb  list in summer in addition to selling snowdrops growing and well-established in pots at flowering time, which is in my opinion the best of both worlds.

I know nobody better than Wol & sue for snowdrops.

You nearly always get a daughter bulb, the prices are reasonable and the plants are in superb health.

[johnw]

John, Wol and Sue also do a dormant bulb  list in summer in addition to selling snowdrops growing and well-established in pots at flowering time, which is in my opinion the best of both worlds.

Agreed Martin.  Fresh dormant of course is the only way we can handle Galanthus here.  [In a country as big as Canada with such varied climates there's little chance of successfully shipping anything in the green west to east without freezing somewhere along the line. April seems to be the safest month.]  You also get a chance to thoroughly inspect the bulb and JohnG considers this #1 priority.

johnw