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Post by 4wd on Dec 14, 2013 18:48:37 GMT
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3764045www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3764055What's going on here, I struggle to understand these incredibly early bulbs. They typically flower here from early Feb until mid-March, it doesn't need much warmth to start them off so how can these be in bloom already? Whereas ours you might just see a shoot tip I supppose.
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Post by rgsp on Dec 15, 2013 8:28:00 GMT
Those are snob snowdrops 4WD - "Elwesii" don't make up as fast as most, and they cost a bit more to buy as well, but they do flower 2 or 3 weeks before most of the rest - and have nice big flowers.
With us they appear in early January mostly, but in a warm year it can be mid December with most of the rest arriving in mid January. Our soil is rather uncompromising cold heavy clay though, and in warmer areas with lighter soils November is nothing specially unusual.
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Post by 4wd on Dec 15, 2013 10:19:50 GMT
That's interesting, so they really are a slightly different variety which presumably does not need a certain number of cold day units or whatever before taking off?
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Post by rgsp on Dec 15, 2013 13:28:37 GMT
That's interesting, so they really are a slightly different variety which presumably does not need a certain number of cold day units or whatever before taking off? It must be something a bit different about them, maybe just fewer cold days, or perhaps their definition of "cold" is a degree or two warmer. What exactly though, I really don't know. It's nice to have one or two clumps of them in the garden, and although they're slow to make up, they don't appear to be significantly less tough than the more normal strains.
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