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What a beautiful and grateful bulbous plant the Chionodoxa is. As soon as the weather starts to resemble spring, it appears, sometimes as early as February. Never turning a blind eye and cautiously exploring around itself, looking to see if the coast is clear enough to start flowering.
No, she appears en masse. From one day to the next she covers the garden with a blue, so beautiful, as if heaven has fallen to earth.
Chionodoxa plants
Plant Chionodoxa bulbs 5 cm deep. You should also keep a maximum planting distance of 5 cm if you want to create a dense carpet of Chionodoxa flowers. In a more natural garden it often looks nice if you scatter the bulbs by hand. Where the bulbs land, plant them in the ground.
If you want to plant Chionodoxa, don't be careful with the number. The Glory of the Snow is a flower bulb that deserves to be planted on a grand scale. Really, if you ask yourself whether you have ordered too many, you will have enough. You will never regret it because it will come back year after year.
You can also try the Chionoxa in neglected corners of the garden or half under trees where it is always bare. Nine times out of ten it will take well and you will enjoy it for years. The first spring after planting it often blooms after mid-March, but once settled it can already be in full bloom at the end of February.
Buy Chionodoxa
The blue Chionodoxa or Glory of the Snow that Fluwel offers is the Chionodoxa forbesii . The bright blue with the shining white eye of the Chionodoxa forbesii makes her the most striking and fresh colored of all Chionodoxa's.
The Chionodoxa luciliae and the Chionodoxa sarniensis are both also frequently offered. These are also excellent species that certainly naturalise just as well in the garden as the Chionodoxa forbesii, but the latter simply wins when it comes to 'who is the bluest'.
There is also a pink variant of this beautiful small flower bulb; Chionodoxa forbesii Pink Giant . Also more than worth trying.
