I planted a couple hundred Glory-of-the-Snow (Chionodoxa) bulbs in some of my flowerbeds in early November, but I wonder if they’ll ever see the light of day.
We’ve had a tremendous amount of freezing rain and drenching rain over the last week or so, and some of my flowerbeds have been sitting in puddles of standing water.
Glory-of-the-Snow bulbs are planted very shallowly (about 4 inches deep), so there’s a chance they could be affected by all the freezing and thawing.
But they are also tough little bulbs from Turkey that can shrug off snowstorms even after the flowers start blooming, so there’s still hope.
Glory-of-the-Snow flowers grow 4 to 8 inches tall with white, pink, purple and lavender flowers that appear in late winter and early spring. That’s when people in northern climates are just begging to see anything come to life in their gardens after a long winter. These early-sign-of-spring flowers are hardy in Zones 3-8.