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Posted By: slredmond Snow Drops - March 18th, 2006 at 08:12 PM
What are these little cuties that have popped up at our new house? They showed up the first week of March, so they are EARLY comers, and they are tiny!

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Posted By: weezie13 Re: Snow Drops - March 18th, 2006 at 09:09 PM
Yep... that's exactly what those are...

And they will multiply with time, prolifically.. thumbup flw flw flw flw flw

When the bees get to them, and the flower dries up, there's a seed or bulb at the end of that flower, and when the stalk dries up and lays over, that's where another group of snowdrops form..
Posted By: mom54 Re: Snow Drops - March 18th, 2006 at 09:50 PM
Also, they are shade loving for us that are covered with Oak Trees. They can be transplanted easily too. flw
Posted By: weezie13 Re: Snow Drops - March 18th, 2006 at 10:14 PM
I do have a picture of mine,
I will post it later.....
It show's how a big clump is and how they scatter.
Posted By: slredmond Re: Snow Drops - March 19th, 2006 at 08:15 PM
OK - thanks! These are on the shady side of the house, so that explains it. I'd be happy to have them multiply - it needs so "pretty" on that side of the house. This house is new to us this (just bought last month) so it's a thrill to see things coming up. I feel a real kinship with the woman who used to live there (for 60+ years), and passed away at 93. She has flowers and bushes everywhere, bird houses, all things that I love too. It makes a new house feel like home already.
Posted By: weezie13 Re: Snow Drops - March 20th, 2006 at 01:27 AM
Sandy,
My house is the same way, and older couple lived here for many, many years and she had snow drops, phlox and iris's and peonies and columbines, etc... and the neat thing about it is, she was a Meals~on~Wheels recipient and I would deliver to her and tell her how her flowers were.. she thought that was so nice to hear someone was taking care of them still.

I finally got my pictures up and running..
Here's my snow drops..
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Posted By: slredmond Re: Snow Drops - March 20th, 2006 at 07:57 PM
How cool that you would end up owning the house of someone you had befriended. Your snow drops look great in with the rocks.
Posted By: penny in ontario Re: Snow Drops - March 20th, 2006 at 11:58 PM
oh weezie, those look great, and i agree, they look good with the rocks around them thumbup and i am sure she appreciated the fact that you have kept them as is and didnt take them out
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