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Has anybody solved the age old problem of digging up Spring bulbs by accident? I'm thinking particularly of snowdrops which are tiny.
I was working out in the garden today, and enjoying my snowdrops, all of which were originally planted in clumps in between other plants. However in one area (I suspect where my husband had one of his rare digging forays !) they were scattered everywhere, and to be honest, a bit of a nuisance tangled up with other plants.
It's difficult to leave a stick in as a marker all year round once the leaves die back. Any other suggestions to stop them being scattered around?

I just pop them back in if I dig up by accident.

Hi primrose
When we moved into our house five years ago the borders were full of daffodils - I was so fed up with both digging them up and the borders looking as if I had a bed of floppy leeks for ages afterwards - that I dug up the ones I liked and moved them round the trees in the grass and in clumps at the edge of the beds where I don't tend to dig too enthusiastically. Any I do dig up I just put back. All my snowdrops are in the lawn at the edge of the hedge and in corners where i remember where they are and it is shady and not too dry for them. This way it isn't a problem when I come to mow/dig, since I have bulb areas.
Hope this helps
Hilary

Yes, I hate all the drooping daffodil foliage. It seems to last halfway into the summer, doesn't it and does tend to make borders look very untidy. I'm wondering whether to put my snowdrops into those small plastic "whicker" containers which are used for water plants in ponds. Then at least they would more easily all stay together when I'm digging borders, until they get so big that they need to be split up.
Over a period of years I've gradually replaced all the large daffodils in our garden with the miniature ones. I find they take up less space, start flowering earlier, the foliage is less unsightly after they've bloomed, and and they don't get so damaged by wind and rain. They're currently all out and blooming and are such a welcome sight after the winter.

I use miniature daffodils in the garden and full sized ones at the plot for cut flowers.

"In the green" is the best way to relocate snowdrops and other spring bulbs.