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Award-winning Snowdrop collection
Award-winning Snowdrop collection

Award-winning Snowdrop collection

RHS AGM Galanthus collection

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Experience the allure of our award-winning snowdrop bulb collection. Indulge in the enchanting beauty of these delicate flowers, announcing the...

1 × collection | 35 bulbs
£24.99
available to order from autumn 2024
2 + 1 FREE collections | 105 bulbs
£49.98
available to order from autumn 2024
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Plant description

Experience the allure of our award-winning snowdrop bulb collection. Indulge in the enchanting beauty of these delicate flowers, announcing the arrival of spring. Each species in this meticulously curated selection showcases variations in height and flower transforming your garden into a late winter wonderland, brimming with resilient and elegant blooms.

What's included:

In each collection you will receive the following:

  • 15 × Galanthus nivalis: It's hard not to love these wonderful bulbs for adding colour to the garden when little else is awake. The nodding white flowers have a small green marking on the inside of each tepal, are honey scented, and appear in late winter. They look particularly good planted in large drifts in grass where they will naturalise quite happily. Alternatively plant them up in clumps in the front of mixed borders, or into pots so they can be admired close up. Plant the bulbs as soon as possible after delivery to prevent the bulbs drying out. Grows up to 10cm tall.

  • 10 × Galanthus woronowii: This variety has been grown in the UK for around 100 years, but originates from a wide range of habitats in north-eastern Turkey and southern Russia. It can be found naturalised in forests, fields, ditches, grassy meadows as well as rocky gorges, screes and stony slopes. Because of its wide range of natural habitats, it is a pretty tough customer and can be grown just about anywhere. It has a basal rosette of chunky green leaves that are waxy to the touch, and from their centre emerges a single stem bearing the delicate white flower which has a small green mark on the inner segments. Grows up to 15cm tall.

  • 10 × Galanthus elwesii: Bulbous perennials providing the first brave flowers of the year. Snowdrops signify that spring is just waiting to unfold and gardeners should take heart. Their name comes from the Greek words 'gala', meaning milk, and 'anthos', meaning flower. Robust and tolerant of most soil types, wild snowdrops are commonly found on wooded upland and rocky outcrops throughout Europe and Western Asia, generally flowering from January to March. Grows up to 20cm tall.

    • Flowering period

    • Jan
    • Feb
    • Mar
    • Apr
    • May
    • Jun
    • Jul
    • Aug
    • Sep
    • Oct
    • Nov
    • Dec

    Plant features

    Position

    Full sun / light shade

    Rate of growth

    Average

    Soil

    Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil

    How to care for Award-winning snowdrop collection:

    Plant bulbs as soon as possible to prevent them drying out, in naturalistic drifts 10cm (4in) deep in September or October. Where bulbs are planted in grass do not cut the grass until after the leaves have died right back. Divide large colonies after flowering while the leaves are still green for use in other moist, well-drained areas.

    Warning

    Humans/Pets: Harmful if eaten

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