Good morning. I used to enjoy snowdrops in the far corner of the yard until the neighbor installed a superduper new sprinkler system which soaks the fence and a bit into my yard's corner. Now the snowdrops give gorgeous green foliage all year round, but no flowers. The advice has always been to 'wait until foliage yellows, and then dig up' for
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I'm not sure if there's any detrimental effect on next year's flowering, if they're in this condition. If there is, transplant the sooner the better.
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I'm only making assumptions here, as I have no experience with snowdrops, and only limited knowledge of other bulbs.
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You'll have to put these URLs back together by closing the gaps after the double forward slashes and after the one following the word 'film ' in the first, and 'style' in the second.
http:// www.videojug.com/film/ how-to-plant-snowdrops-in-the-green
http:// property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/ property/gardens/article5732943.ece
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I thought snowdrops required a definite cold period (about 20°F) to stimulate bloom. Yours bloom for you in Zone 9??? Wow.
Snowdrops require good drainage. It's recommended that if you have heavy, clayey soil you plant them in raised beds with plenty of organic matter/compost to help improve the drainage for them, because if they sit around *wet,* they'll rot.
That suggests that moving them sooner rather than later and before the twice daily watering by your fern-loving neighbors causes them to deteriorate and die is a good idea.
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Yeah, I love their ferns and they're generous about sharing their abundance, such as baby's tears; they're nice people and if they turned down their sprinklers maybe their yard wouldn't look as nice -- meh, it's not worth discussing it with them. The neighbors on the other sides have drip water systems and naturally give no overspray. Good advice on the snowdrops and I'll work in a bit of organic stuff to let them have dry feet.
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