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If you want Snowdrops

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user1494670108 · 12/02/2019 16:55

I have a few snowdrops and love them. In the garden centre st the weekend I bought 5 pots with about 3-4 in each (so £10) so that I'm planting them in the green.
Today I've discovered that I can get 100 on the green on EBay Confused.
They haven't come yet so I can't vouch for their quality but I'm kicking myself for getting them at Garden centre prices

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NanTheWiser · 12/02/2019 18:18

Well, garden centres are always a bit on the expensive side, they have to make a living! Always check eBay for plants, you can often get what you want for less.

MaudAndOtherPoems · 13/02/2019 22:43

If you check the back pages of gardening magazines in winter, there are several companies (mostly it seems in East Anglia) which sell snowdrops in the green by the 100.

Knittedfairies · 13/02/2019 23:00

If it makes you feel any better, I planted 100 snowdrops in the green years ago, bought by mail order, and not one came up the next year. Not one.

BackforGood · 13/02/2019 23:07

Thank you. It wouldn't have crossed my mind to look on E-Bay for plants Smile

Tea16 · 13/02/2019 23:13

I bought off ebay and not one came up.

LaLaLamp · 13/02/2019 23:15

What is in the green? Do you mean grass?

Cherrymix · 13/02/2019 23:18

I would be a bit suspicious of cheap plants on Ebay. How do you know they haven't been dug up from the wild (or at least naturalised) places? I have never had much success with snowdrops in the garden but see them growing in many local woodlands and along hedgerows. It would be sad to see them disappear because they have been dug up to be unsuccesfully transplanted to people's gardens.

Notso · 13/02/2019 23:23

LaLaLamp I'm assuming it means they are growing plants rather than bulbs.

LaLaLamp · 13/02/2019 23:28

thank you!

MaudAndOtherPoems · 14/02/2019 09:32

Yes, in the green means growing bulbs but they arrive bare rooted (ie not in compost) so need to be planted promptly.

BiscuitDrama · 14/02/2019 09:34

I’ve had zero success with snowdrop bulbs too, they really need to be ‘in the green’, as described above.

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