Galanthus gracilis
Graceful snowdrop
Also known as Galanthus elwesii var. minor, Galanthus graecus
- Height × spread
- 0.15m × 0.1m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Winter
Availability
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About this plant
This is a small form that immediately attracts notice because of the leaves that are somewhat twisted and provide a curious foil for the neat flowers of the snowdrop. The flowers are fragrant with three smooth white outer petals. The inner petals often have two areas of green, at the top, and inverted V's near the petal tips. Sometimes. however, they may just have a simple, possibly crossed green mark. Identification is never easy in snowdrop world!
- Flower colour
- White
- Foliage colour
- Grey
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- Yes, sweet
- Shape
- Column
- Height
- 0.15m
- Spread
- 0.1m
- Season of interest
- Winter
- Flowers in
- Winter
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Small scale garden, Shady court, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun, likes part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders and containers
- Use for
- Deer resistant, Rabbit resistant, Bee attraction
- Hazards
- Yes, potentially harmful; Humans: Harmful if eaten
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water to keep the soil moist
For best results, this plant needs soil that is always moist. Water deeply and regularly as soon as soil appears dry. Even for established plants in the ground, a dry week can cause problems with some soils. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather. Or install an automatic irrigation system which will do the hard work for you, even when you are away on holiday.
Without regular watering some plants never fully regain their beauty.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Feed with high potash feed several times
Apply a fertiliser that is high in potash (potassium) several times while the plant is in flower.
Where fertiliser values are listed on a packet they are in order - nitrogen, phosphate, potassium with percentage values of each. For high potash choose a fertiliser where potassium is higher.
Winter
Winter · Planting
Divide after flowering
Clumps that have become congested can be lifted, divided and replanted with some space between the bulbs, corms, or rhizomes so that they can further develop, producing new foliage clumps in the future.
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