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We have found that we inherited quite a few snowdrops when we took over our plot. My questions are, 1) Can they be moved, as my OH would dearly love some in the garden at home, and 2) if they can, when is the best time to move them,bearing in mind they would probably only be out of the ground for a maximum of about one hour?

Move them now in big clumps with plenty of soil. Done it myself last week and they are still looking good and flowering.

Thanks ACE, the ones I was thinking of moving are a small clump right at the bottom edge of the shed, and have already finished flowering.

I would like to find a source for buying snowdrops in the green, a fair few actually does anybody know anyone I can contact, would appreciate that ,they are very very special to my heart and I need to find them, I have had very little joy with bulbs. I am not looking for freebies, just a contact, from the site or elsewhere. Thank you Jeannine. Please PM if you have any info

You can find ads in the gardening press, but I wouldn't buy them this time of year myself. If you're digging them up and replanting them straight off, that's one thing, but if they're going to be out of the ground for a few days, that's another. if I'm buying them, I get them in the autumn, from a specialist who knows to send fresh bulbs not dried ones. I don't get them from garden centres; the one time I did that, they were dried out, and very few came up.

Hello Jeannine, I bought snowdrops last year, in the green, from Eurobulbs UK Ltd. Good quality too.

Christies Alpine Nurseries ( on the web too) are listing bulbs in the green.  I've never had any success with dry bulbs ( ok, 50p for 40 from Woolies, what did I expect) butthis year I'm trying some I bought in the green  from Rode Heath Snowdrop Walk opening.  If they come back next year, i'll buy a hundred or so in the green.

Try this quizzical; http://tinyurl.com/3bblwa

Thanks TeeGee.
I shall endeavour to lift them this coming weekend and split before replanting under my ceanothus, along with the bluebells my mum has just given me from her garden.

I always buy them dry from wilkinsons at the end of the season when they sell them cheap, although the books always recommend buying them in the green I have never had a problem.
Froglets I went on the Rhode Heath snowdrop walk with Reaseheath College & was impressed

Flytrapman - think we might have passed you, there was a group there looking at the back of the hot houses with the guide pulling out the old fire grates & explaining hwo they had a combination of opena and hearth fires to warm through the brick walls.  The chap mentioned Reaseheath - we went on the 17th I think.

Thank you so much for the links XX Jeannine