Snowdrop Flower Plant

Greek gála milk ánthos flower is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family amaryllidaceae.

Snowdrop flower plant. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small white drooping bell shaped flower with six petal like tepals in two circles. Once the flower bulb opens it produces three delicate petals that seem to arch over the three inner petals. Common snowdrops bulbs have two 4 inch leaves which start to yellow after the bloom arrives. Plant the snowdrops with the skinny nose up and flat base of the bulb down into the soil.

Each plant produces one miniature white flower with a diameter of one inch or less. The tips tend to form thick points helping to protect the flower bud as the plant pushes through the soil. The epithet nivalis means of the snow referring either to the snow like flower or the plant s early flowering. Common snowdrops are tiny plants 3 to 6 inches tall that produce one small 1 inch or less white flower which hangs down off its stalk like a drop prior to opening.

Snowdrop genus galanthus genus of about 20 species of white flowered eurasian plants in the amaryllis family amaryllidaceae. These are available from nurseries by mail order in bundles or in individual pots. Snowdrop flowers are very small plants that grow to only three to six inches tall. Snowdrops are among the first flowers to bloom in the spring sprouting up as early as january or february depending on location.

Snow drops are bulb perennials. The leaves are shaped like narrow blades growing about 4 inches long. Galanthus nivalis the snowdrop or common snowdrop. Sew the bulbs of the snowdrop flowers in september and october as these are optimal months for planting these followers at depth of 10 cm maximum and a spacing of 10 cm.

These flowers are a beautiful white color and they hang down from the plant stalk in a drop fashion before they fully bloom. Snowdrop flower care size and growth. Steps for planting snowdrop flower bulbs. As you probably want to plant a group of snowdrop flowers plant around 15 to 20 of them in one place.

Several species including common snowdrop galanthus nivalis and giant snowdrop g. Loosen the soil and add compost or dried manure and 5 10 10 granular fertilizer. The derivation of the name is uncertain although. Elwesii are cultivated as ornamentals for their nodding sometimes fragrant flowers.

The common name snowdrop first appeared in the 1633 edition of john gerard s great herbal in the first edition 1597 he described it as the timely flowring bulbus violet. Snowdrops are perennial plants that may multiply and spread over time. In fact they will frequently. Mix the soil until everything blends together with no clumps of compost or manure or fertilizer.

The smaller inner petals have green markings. By late spring foliage. Most species produce two or three dark green leaves measuring 4 10 inches tall.