An Eruption of Galanthus Bulbs

Judy Glattstein jgglatt@gmail.com
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 18:03:26 PDT
So today I was hauling yet another tub of last autumn's leaves into the 
woods to throw onto the brush pile where I intended to relocate the 
hatchling box turtles (except I think they hatched yesterday and 
scuttled off on their own.) As I was coming back out of the woods I saw 
all these small round white objects lounging around on the soil surface. 
Masses of them, in several colonies. Some so thick I could not see the 
soil. All of them fully exposed. Of course I could not leave them to the 
vagaries of time and the weather. I suppose I could have just dumped 
some dirt, (excuse me, soil, let's be upper class) over them. But if 
they were so crowded they were erupting into the light of day maybe they 
were looking for new situations.

So I scrabbled with my fingers, lifted them all, and now have to figure 
where I am going to plant them all. As you can see from the attached 
image, there are many, many snowdrop bulbs. Because the only thing I can 
think of that was in that general area last spring were galanthus.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Judy in New Jersey



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