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I’ve been slowly adding special snowdrops to the garden for a number of years now. Nothing very unusual but each year I have bought 2 or 3 special bulbs and planted them out in the garden. So it is thrilling to see them bulking up now and reappearing year after year even if the labels which I know I put with them aren’t so reliable. Galanthus ‘Ding Dong’ is usually one of… Read More
When I tell people that I am going to look at snowdrops they often look at me quizzically -” surely a snowdrop is a snowdrop is a snowdrop” they say. “What’s the fuss, they are just pretty small white flowers?” And so it may seem until you start to look beyond the blanket of the big garden retail chains and seek out the specialist nurseries and horticultural groups and then you start… Read More