Snowdrops are certainly one of my favorite flowers within the backyard, the common Galanthus nivalis is about as good a plant as can exist. With a stupendous white flower with inexperienced markings that, unusually, hangs the other way up on a tremendous stem, coupled with slender pale inexperienced leaves. Common snowdrops are cheap so you should purchase quite a bit as bulbs and plant them, whereas rarer snowdrop cultivars with marginal variations to the flower construction might be rather more costly attributable to their rarity.
Both manner, the free and most sustainable solution to improve your snowdrop numbers is to divide a few of your present clumps. One factor the covid pandemic taught us all is the way in which exponential development works. Snowdrop bulbs will multiply yearly, growing by an additional 1 – 3 bulbs or so per present bulb in your backyard.
Every year your variety of snowdrops will improve exponentially however can decelerate as clumps grow to be over crowded. The simplest solution to improve the pace of multiplying snowdrops is to dig up the clump, separate the bulbs after which replant with extra space, beginning the method once more throughout your backyard.
Personally I a lot want doing this when bulbs are dormant after midsummer. The gardening world at all times says shifting snowdrops within the inexperienced (which implies in development) is greatest, however technically this doesn’t make sense since you’re digging up and disturbing a plant in energetic development relatively than as a dormant bulb when shifting it gained’t have an effect on it.
However both manner works and shifting them in energetic development is simpler as a result of you’ll be able to see what you’re coping with. I’ll shortly clarify how…
1) Dig up your chosen clump being cautious to not harm roots
2) Separate every bulb by tugging aside as rigorously as potential
3) Replant individually wherever you need on the similar depth as earlier than
4) Planting subsequent to winter dormant perennials or underneath deciduous shrubs will allow you to bear in mind the place they’re and never disturb bulbs later
5) Stand again and look the place you’ve planted them and whether or not you might want to add a couple of extra out of your present vegetation
