[mumofstig]

Have just received 100 snowdrops 'in the green' and what i want to know is..
can you grow these through grass like daffodils?
Can i plant them now in holes in the grass and just not cut the grass till they have
died back?
They just seem such small bulbs and I don't want to lose them under the lawn

[sunshineband]

Generally snowdrops don't grow in grass as such and are more of a shady edge of woodland flower I think. If the patch you have in mind is not in full sun all day thoguh it is worth a try. You could cut out holes in the turf big enough to take a little bunch of the bulbs, and plant them through like that. Although they are supposed to move best 'in the green' this is beacuse stored bulbs dry out and die. if you dig them up and replant them straight away they will be fine.

Sorry this is such a long post -- hope it helps 

[Kristen]

Replant them to the same depth - so the white bit, at the bottom, indicates what was underground, and the green bit, at the top, what was above ground.

I have some in the lawn, I dig a cube of turf/soil out with a spade and put one at each corner, then put the turf back.  I dig each cube "haphazardly" so that the effect looks random.

They will be very solitary for a few years though - so you may want to plant some clumps rather than single.  I dig up about a quarter of my clumps each year and divide them up.  I put about half of each clump back in the original position, and then then split the other bit in half and plant those two "quarters" separately, that way they don't look too lonely!