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Tag Archives: snowdrops
It’s Snowdrop Time!
To a lot of people snowdrops are all the same, I thought this for many, many years, until I once visited a garden which had lots of really different varieties and fell under their spell. There are still species snowdrops … Continue reading
January, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.
One New Year’s decision was to take part in GBBD for the first time. This time last year it wouldn’t have been possible because everywhere was under a foot of snow, this year it is a very different story, with … Continue reading
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Tagged camellia, Chaenomeles, choisya, Convolvulous cneorum, garrya, hellebores, iris, Mahonia, narcissus, sarcococca, snowdrops, Snowflake
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Splitting time for Snowdrops
If you want to have drifts of beautiful snowdrops, just like the photos we see of the collections at stately homes in England – then now is the time to get busy. This beautiful drift was photographed at Colesbourne Park … Continue reading
Snowdrop Pilgrimage
At last I managed to persuade my husband that he really wanted to go and see the snowdrop collection at Colesbourne Park in Gloucestershire, and what a wonderful day it turned out to be. Weather was a bit dull and … Continue reading
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Tagged aconite, Colesbourne Park, Crocus, Cyclamen, Elwes.., hellebores, iris, narcissus, Scilla, snowdrops, snowflakes
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Sunshine and Snowdrops
What a difference a bit of sunshine makes – after a week of much milder weather, today the sun is shining, the snowdrops have now opened and are now showing the different markings on their inner petals. Spring is definitely … Continue reading
Super Snowdrops.
At last we have enough snowdrops flowering to be able to talk about them. The three special early ones by the front door that should have been out before Christmas, flowered just after New Year but didn’t enjoy the frosts … Continue reading
Early Risers
The early risers were caught out this year with the abnormal weather that we had in November and December. They gaily rushed headlong into flower, as they usually do, just to be frozen solid and covered with about 10 inches … Continue reading
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Tagged cyclamencoum, hellebores, Hypericumprolificum, phormium, primulas, Quince, snowdrops, Viburnum NewDawn, winterjasmine, witchhazel
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Spring brings early blooms — and a molehill invasion
We were away for the whole of January teaching at a mission in Sierra Leone and while we were away the moles had a field day. In the past we have had one or two mole hills which we have … Continue reading
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Tagged bluebells, hellebores, molehills, moles, narcissus, primroses, snowdrops, spring
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