anyone seen a snowdrop yet?

My snowdrops are flowering their little heads off - I was worried they might not show as winter hasn't been that cold. I bought loads over the past few years - hundreds - and they do look best in clumps or drifts. They are such a brave, hopeful little flower. I also seem to have some primulas flowering, and a cowslip (or oxlip - not quite sure which). I've bought a daphne to go into our woodlandy bit at the back of the garden - trying to create a Magic Wood Garden, with windchimes, solar lights, Green Man faces and magical bits and pieces amongst the plantings. I've planted lots of native hedgerow/woodland plants, hoping to attract plenty of wildlife. DH made a twisty brick path out of recycled bricks which looks very pretty. I haven't been up to going to have a look at it recently as it's been so wet and I haven't felt up to gardening, but I'm hoping that when I do, I'll see all the bulbs I planted coming up. Gardens are always a 'work in progress' - they don't ever get finished, as such!
Sorry...got a bit carried away and off the Snowdrop topic!

One of my selfseeded wallflowers has a flower on it and my fuchsias are still in flower.

I did read somewhere that the ground has to reach a certain level of coldness to wake up the bulbs of snowdrops, if it's too mild they stay asleep! Funny that, I tend to do it the other way round, and burrow deeper into the duvet.

We have snowdrops quite few so cheery! Often mind don't appear so friend gave me pot also last week they not out yet.

No snowdrops here. Aconites yes. Hellebores yes. Daffs and hyacinths are pushing through. And a stubborn geranium in a hanging basket on the NE corner of our carport is in bud. But no sign of snowdrops. Maybe someone has nicked them!

Snowdrops are one of the few flowers best planted out when in full flower so if nothing appears soon, I'm off to cheat and buy some to plant out.

Yes, last week here on the north west coast of Wales

It's ilegal to take some wildflowers [you can't take daffodils] but unsure about others. However I suppose that if we all dug up what we fancied there wouldn't be much left! My snowdrops are just beginning to grow, so the ground must be getting cold enough now.No primroses out or crocus up, but daffodils pushing through about 4 inches high.
In Devon, I remember the lovely hedgerows [Devon banks] full of primroses in Feb and march.

And yes, I've read in many places that planting 'in the green' is more successful. That's my experience too. Mine are opening their buds and beginning to look very beautiful. It's such a hopeful little flower

Noooooo! Please, pretty please, don't take them from the wild, phoenix - there are loads available at not a huge cost from online 'shops'. I'm not sure if it's allowed to name them here, but for a few years I've added to our stock of snowdrops by ordering them 'in the green' - ie NOW. They are delivered quickly - you just put them in and they might even flower this year if you get them soon. I'm not sure about whether it's illegal or not - will find out, but it's definitely illegal with bluebells. If everyone took a clump, there'd be precious little left to enjoy in the countryside, or on road verges, and our wild flowers are a dwindling resource - essential for keeping the ecosytem going smoothly.

I am happy to let you know the name of a bulb seller if you like

Thanksjanerowena

A lot of the ones roundabout are on banks along the lanes, the sort of land where it would be hard to tell who owned it.

I think I will go "naughty" ! I will trundle out one evening, armed with a trowel and "liberate" a clump or two! Jack would have approved and giggled like mad, my beloved stepfather would have delivered a mini lecture on why it was wrong, while at the same time making sure that he had brought a torch!

Well yes, it is, unless they are perhaps on some farmland where you can ask permission. In other words, if there is an owner of the land, you can ask. I have to admit to being ignorant of that in the past, and digging up a couple of clumps from a wood that was white as snow with them.

Every year I plan to plant some on my stepfathers grave, which is also where Jack's ashes are buried.

I thought I should have planted them in the Autumn, but it seems as though I could do it now, so to speak!

There are loads of drifts of wild ones round and about, do you think it's illegal to dig some up?

The smaller the bulb of any plant, the more likely it is to dry out quickly, too much. So unless you replant bulbs even in your own garden straight away and keep them watered frequently, they will have lost their very fine roots which are grabbing at any moisture they can find in the soil and are just placed in dry soil with no roots to stay alive with.

I agree. If you wish to plant or divide Snowdrops it neds to be done now when they are 'in the green', as they will not take otherwise. I don't know why. does anyone know?

Little clump just showing in the dip under an old cherry tree. Flowers still tightly closed.

I have snowdrops in bloom, a whole host of them, also daffy poking their heads through the soil. Where I live gardens are always a bit behind, but not this year. I also have a holly tree which is usually striped of the berries by Christmas, but this year there are many still remain. Its all a bit of a puzzle. The grass is growing on the lawn as well.

Yes, here in the Midlands I have a few up. Lots more to follow.

Yes, we have lots out now.

One of the patio pots has a fuchsia which is still in full, vigorous bloom! Sheltered from the winds but not the rain, it is beautiful. No snowdrops yet but daffodils pushing through nicely, and even the geraniums are having a go. All very interesting!

Ah well I'm nearly on the south cost but 675 ft above sea level. Iam64 lots of daffodils out along the road as well as primroses and crocuses.

Saw some this afternoon in Newquay Zoo. Sadly no sight of any in our garden yet.

Yes - lots of them showing through now. I also have crocus ( the lovely wild ones but never seen so early), lots of primula, Hellebores, 1 lonely wallflower, yellow jasmine and a few othe brave plants. I am in North Yorkshire which as we know is God's own county which explains everything !

that is odd brenda - our daffy are just poking through. We are in the grim north west though

Strangely enough I have crocus and daffodils out with tulips growing but no snowdrops.

Mine are out , looking really good , I love them they herald the promise of things to come !