Leucojum, Dewdrop, Meadow Snowflake, Snowbell, Summer Snowflake 'Gravetye Giant'

Great naturalizer in my z9a garden. I have planted them in moist areas and in dryish areas and don't see diff. in performance. Some are...Read More in shade, some in full brutal sun, no diff.

This is a particularly robust form of the species, first found at Gravetye Manor, garden of the 19th century English horticultural giant,...Read More William Robinson.

It is larger, taller, and more vigorous than the species, and with larger flowers.

I've read that almost all Leucojum aestivum in commercial production is actually this form, even if not so labeled.

Like the species, it blooms in mid-late daffodil season, in April here in Boston (Z6a). In the deep south, it may begin blooming in early winter.

Easy and adaptable, it prefers more moisture than most spring bulbs, and tolerates summer irrigation. Summer snowflakes perform well in moist areas like the edges of streams and ponds. They also tolerate deciduous shade.

Easily available from mail order vendors of fall bulbs.

Here in TN these freely self seed and can create an astonishing clump in just a few years. From my initial planting of 3 bulbs 5 years ag...Read Moreo, I now have about 12 clumps that usually put up 50-75 stalks in Late March, Early April.
Easy to divide and share, all grow true from seed, if pods are left on plants.

These plants come back every year for me here in San Diego, zone 10. They bloom throughout the winter. In warm weather they "die down". I...Read More tie-up the leaves in a neat knot and only cut them off when they are totally yellow. They kind of "disappear" during the season, and start leafing out again in late fall.
Lovely and a prolific bloomer!