Snowdrop question
Diane Whitehead (Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:41:53 PST)

There is a big difference between sending a friend off with a clump of
blooming snowdrops encased in a clod of moist earth that gets planted
within a short time, and a nursery worker digging up a similar clump,
removing most of the soil from it, separating it into individual
plants, wrapping them in plastic and mailing them off to customers.
In the first case, many of the plants in the clump won't be disturbed
much if at all, but in the second case, they are all disturbed several
times over.

Planting snowdrops "in the green" was started because snowdrops did
not take kindly to being dug and dried in hot conditions in Turkey and
similar places.

I imagine the treatment of snowdrop bulbs has improved a lot now that
they are being farmed in the mountains in Turkey.

Diane Whitehead

On 20-Dec-10, at 4:00 PM, Jim McKenney wrote: