Autumn flowering snowdrops

Jane McGary via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:55:03 PST
Vlad Hempel (who incidentally shares a surname with my mother's family) 
is writing from a climate colder than mine, but we experience frequent 
frost in the period he mentions. Outdoors at this time there are quite a 
few late-autumn crocuses, such as C. speciosus recently discussed, C. 
tournefortii, and C. boryi. I have Galanthus reginae-olgae that Vlad 
mentions, though mine isn't a named selection, and Galanthus peshmenii; 
they aren't in flower yet this year. Cyclamen hederifolium flowers 
heavily from September into the end of November here, but the other fall 
bloomers I grow in the open have a shorter flowering period and are done 
now. Sternbergia greuteriana, a small species, has done really well in a 
slightly raised, sandy spot, and is in peak flowering now. I grow a 
large range of Colchicum species, and there are still some small ones 
coming on, though the larger ones are through. I've been experimenting 
with midwinter-flowering Narcissus cantabricus in the open, but the 
flowers are ruined by rain, so I can't recommend it in a region as wet 
as the Pacific Northwest, though the plants survive.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

On 11/3/2020 3:06 AM, Vlad Hempel via pbs wrote:
> What bulbs do you grow that bloom from Nov to Jan?
>
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