Description

Daphnes Scissors is a classy 15cm high slender looking snowdrop, with what appears to be a pair of open scissors on the inner great fun as a gift for any stitchers out there!

Flowering time.

This will vary depending on your garden.

In our sloping coastal warm protected organic garden its late January early Feb, this increasingly gets earlier with the warmer weather.

History

It was named by Daphne Chappell in Helen Milford's former garden Chedworth Gloucestershire in 1985.

This snowdrop grows very well in our garden.

Galanthus elwesii Daphnes Scissors

£8.50

Quantity

Part shade is key, with good moisture retaining soil. (Augustus as you would imagine has quite a large bulb).

Snowdrops do not like to dry out in summer nor do they like or grow in dry soil or full sun, I find it helpful to imagine a woodland. Under deciduous shrubs or trees always preferring moisture, leaf litter and evolved nutritious top soil.
Your bulb will arrive in our moss in damp kitchen roll in a plastic bag with a sticky label.

Horticultural health: Bulbs have had their roots washed in rain water to ensure nothing from our garden is transferred to yours.

I have either dug up the bulbs direct after receiving your order or grown the bulbs on in 9cm recyclable pots using peat free Melcourt’s Sylvagrow Organic Compost. SylvaGrow® Organic which is a unique blend of fine bark (a by-product of sustainably managed forests), green compost (a carefully-sourced, certified ingredient) and coir (from known, ethically-approved sources).‘I have been using it for the past 6years and it's now all I use’.
Snowdrop flowers provide nectar and pollen for emerging creatures, including bumblebees coming out of hibernation.

Hover-flies and other creatures also utilise this early food source.

So they are an important plant for all gardens.

Snowdrops are trouble free in an organic garden. The old school use of chemicals causes serious harm to all soil and airborne life including us.

Organic gardening is trouble free gardening. A few nibbles of roots and flowers here and there is no problem at all. Growing in intensive protected environments like a heated greenhouse will inevitably create more trouble than it's worth.
By Post (unrelated to gardening events)

UK only. Postage & packaging will be calculated depending on the order size.

3 bulbs in the early or late green (pre-flowering or post-flowering) fit comfortably in one postal tube.

Sent bare root in robust cardboard tubes with plastic end caps – ideally please reuse these - see sustainability section.

Plants will be posted after payment has been received.

Galanthus elwesii Daphnes Scissors

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Sustainability

Nature, pollinators and perceived problems

Postage and packaging