Snowdrops
- Botanical Name
- Galanthus nivalis
- Min Zone
- 3
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 6 inches
- Width
- 6 inches
- Flowers
- Early spring: drooping, pure white with green crescent around the notch of inner tepals
- Light
- Part to full shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, cool
- Planting & Care
- Plant bulbs 4 inches deep, spaced 4 inches apart
- Grows well under deciduous trees where the sun exposure is full in early spring but becomes more shaded as the trees leaf out
- Best when planted en masse in random, natural looking patterns
- Naturalizes by self-seeding and bulb offsets
- Problems
- None serious
- Varieties
- Galanthus elwesii - giant snowdrop, 9 to 12 inches tall, flowers are larger than G. nivalis, Zones 4 to 7
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