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wow! I love that you didn't call this Squill!!! I hardly know anyone who even knows what Glory of the Snow is. I used to live in a house that had these covering a huge rocky slope visible from the kitchen and from the street. In early April the whole hillside was blue, and people would literally stop on the side of the road to take photos of it. But everyone would compliment me on the Squill, and would tell me I was wrong when I tried to let them know. (And I now make a point to drive by the house on the way to work in the spring to see them, too - now a tourist viewing my own former garden!) Of course those were the old analog camera days, so no good photos of them.
Thanks kamaly. I'm glad to hear about the mass planting, it sounds great. I have, entirely by accident of course, purchase about 300 bulbs of these this year, so I'm hoping for great things next spring. Is it sad to see your old garden?
Gee, which deck do you plant 300 bulbs on, even though they're tiny? :-)
I do keep trying to plant more every year here, but they've been slow to establish. Nothing as spectacular as at the old house, where they'd been planted about 40 years earlier. I think they just love a dry rocky hillside. Sometimes I feel I should miss the old house - it was a 200 year-old one with a lot of unique plants (and lots of unique old house hassles.) But I'm now on a nice quiet st., and people don't stop and rip branches off my lilacs when they bloom! And the new yard had nothing much more than daylilies and 4 trees 5 years ago (well, and crabgrass and 5' tall weeds) - so its been a thrill and adventure turning in it into a real garden and watching the little kid plants grow up.
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wow! I love that you didn't call this Squill!!! I hardly know anyone who even knows what Glory of the Snow is. I used to live in a house that had these covering a huge rocky slope visible from the kitchen and from the street. In early April the whole hillside was blue, and people would literally stop on the side of the road to take photos of it. But everyone would compliment me on the Squill, and would tell me I was wrong when I tried to let them know. (And I now make a point to drive by the house on the way to work in the spring to see them, too - now a tourist viewing my own former garden!) Of course those were the old analog camera days, so no good photos of them.
Thanks kamaly. I'm glad to hear about the mass planting, it sounds great. I have, entirely by accident of course, purchase about 300 bulbs of these this year, so I'm hoping for great things next spring. Is it sad to see your old garden?
Gee, which deck do you plant 300 bulbs on, even though they're tiny? :-) I do keep trying to plant more every year here, but they've been slow to establish. Nothing as spectacular as at the old house, where they'd been planted about 40 years earlier. I think they just love a dry rocky hillside. Sometimes I feel I should miss the old house - it was a 200 year-old one with a lot of unique plants (and lots of unique old house hassles.) But I'm now on a nice quiet st., and people don't stop and rip branches off my lilacs when they bloom! And the new yard had nothing much more than daylilies and 4 trees 5 years ago (well, and crabgrass and 5' tall weeds) - so its been a thrill and adventure turning in it into a real garden and watching the little kid plants grow up.
Oh, this one is gorgeous too. This will look great in my faves.
Jean
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