{"id":2640,"date":"2010-02-10T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:23:20","slug":"now-is-the-time-to-divide-your-snowdrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/now-is-the-time-to-divide-your-snowdrops\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is the time to divide your snowdrops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2641\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"snowdrops\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snowdrops.jpg\" alt=\"snowdrops\" width=\"150\" height=\"201\" \/>It is always best to plant Snowdrops &#8220;in the green&#8221;, that is; when they are still in leaf and even flower. In the green is also the best time to divide congested clumps and replant around you garden.<\/p>\n<p>To successfully divide your snowdrops:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using a garden fork or spade dig deeply around the clump to get below the bulbs<\/li>\n<li>Lever out the clump<\/li>\n<li>Using your hands tear the clumps apart into individual bulbs<\/li>\n<li>Remove the flowers to allow energy to go straight to the bulb<\/li>\n<li>Select six to eight bulbs for each new clump<\/li>\n<li>Make a hole with a hand trowel about 15cm deep<\/li>\n<li>Plant the clump so that the bulbs rest at the bottom of the hole<\/li>\n<li>Fill in around the bulbs leaving some leaf showing above the surface<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t remove the leaves, just allow them to die down naturally to help form next year&#8217;s flowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">owdrops transplant well when they are in leaf and even in flower and the bulbs can also be divided at the same time &#8211; a method known as &#8216;in the green&#8217;. You can then replant new clumps of snowdrops in other places around the garden; it&#8217;s a simple way of making more of these beautiful flowers.<\/div>\n<p>For more information on garden bulbs visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/types-of-plants-bulbs-corms-and-rhizomes\/\">Types of Plants \u2013 Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes<\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always best to plant Snowdrops &#8220;in the green&#8221;, that is; when they are still in leaf and even flower. In the green is also the best time to divide congested clumps and replant around you garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1637],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-flowers-and-plants","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15634,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/15634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}