Snowdrops and Aconites

• 9 Dec, 2008
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4000 snowdrops and 40 clumps of aconites to be planted! Got them through mail order from an estate in Scotland - dug up by Lady Irskine herself (and some staff)! They are double snowdrops - unsorted clumps of flowering and non-flowering bulbs - which shouldn't realise they've been moved. Cambo Estate have started these autumn and winter dispatches of bulbs as they are emerging from the ground, unlike the traditional time of lifting snowdrops "in the green" after they've flowered. Hopefully, should make a dramatic display in February underneath the three white birch Betula Jacquemontii

BBC Gardeners' World filmed us doing this yesterday!