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GARDEN BLOGS: Snowdrop Bouquets
One six ounce glass of snowdrops… yields……eleven small but exquisite snowdrop bouquets. Snowdrops have a fragrance that is similar to sweet alyssum or certain daffodils (not poeticus or jonquils). We picked these at the old...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Where to plant bulbs? Following my own advice
A couple of years ago, I told you to choose your fall-planted bulb locations now, when the snow is just beginning to melt. Of course, it helps to have snow. We finally got some, and...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Snowdrops Extraordinaires from the Temple Nursery Open Garden
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I visited Hitch Lyman’s collection of snowdrops courtesy the Garden Conservancy’s Open Gardens program. Hitch owns the Temple Nursery, the premier snowdrop nursery in the United States, with...
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GARDEN BLOGS: In That Spot: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes, No. 1, 2011
Surely this starting into growth is the true Spring in plant life, whether it be an awakening due to the melting of a covering of snow as with the true alpines, or the commencement of...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Not Your Ordinary Snowdrops
There are snowdrops, and then there are snowdrops. I, for the most part, have been content with the Galanthus nivalis (pictured below) I was given many years ago, which have multiplied greatly from my division...