Galanthus elwesii
Giant snowdrop
Also known as Galanthus graecus
- Height × spread
- 0.15m – 0.2m × 0.1m – 0.1m
- Position
- Full sun
Availability
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About this plant
A much loved addition to the winter garden, this beautiful large snowdrop flowers in January and February. Its captivating nodding blooms are pure white with green markings, set amongst shiny blade-like leaves. It's perfect for naturalising lawns or shady borders and it makes a great winter pot display for your back door step. Grows about 20cm tall.
- Flower colour
- Green, White
- Foliage colour
- Blue, Green, Grey
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Column, Cone
- Height
- 0.15m – 0.2m
- Spread
- 0.1m – 0.1m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Winter
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Winter garden, Small scale garden, Shady court, Rock garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun, likes part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Clay, Gravelly soil, Loam (normal), Sandy soil
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Winter hardiness
- Varies, most are hardy
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Ground cover, Deer resistant, Rabbit resistant, Bee attraction
- Hazards
- Yes, some poisonous
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.
Planting & general
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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