Tag Archives: Galanthus
Tommies and friends.
At the moment the weather can’t make up its mind what it should do, one minute it is beautifully sunny, the next, raining again. During a spell of sunshine lately I managed to nip to the woodland to see if … Continue reading
No Snowdrops were hurt by the Storm.
After a quick check in the woodland to see that all our trees were still standing after the last storm, we had just a few branches down, but thankfully no snowdrops had been squashed. The branches seem to have managed … Continue reading
What a difference sunshine makes.
Yesterday, Sunday, has been the first day for such a long time when we have had no rain and non stop sunshine all day and what a difference it has made to the snowdrops and other flowers in the woodland. … Continue reading
It’s Wild Snowdrop Time!
All of a sudden there are white patches everywhere in the woodland, Galanthus nivalis and Galanthus nivalis flora pleno have popped up to join in with the “specials”. This is earlier than last year when it was mid February before … Continue reading
Spring Flowers March In.
Spring has certainly arrived in March, the flowers are coming thick and fast with new ones opening up everyday. Wave after wave of new ones are making the little woodland so pretty at the moment, definitely my favourite part of … Continue reading
Goodbye Snowdrops.
I promise this will be my last post about snowdrops this year, or at least I think it will be!!! Galanthus nivalis, or the wild snowdrops, are now flowering away in the woodland and shady borders, making small drifts of … Continue reading
Second Wave of Snowdrops.
The first wave of early snowdrops are now finished and the second wave is taking over. There have been problems with all the frost that we have had in the past week or 10 days, the hybrids just collapse onto … Continue reading
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