If you want Snowdrops

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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 .
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

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.

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.

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.

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

I bought off ebay and not one came up.

What is in the green? Do you mean grass?

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.

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

thank you!

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

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