This genus is best known for the common snowdrop which is celebrated as a sign of spring. When we say celebrated we mean celebrated with many gardens in the UK having special open days for visitors to come and admire their snowdrops.
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20 Jan, 2008
Snowdrops are my favourite flowers (not tulips, strangely enough).
One of the best displays I've seen to date is in the woodland of the Rococo Gardens, Painswick, Gloucestershire - a carpet of white in the most perfect of settings. Apparently, years gone by, on a certain day of the year, village children were allowed to come and pick bunches of snowdrops to take home to their mothers - what a lovely story.
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19 Jan, 2008
I love snowdrops - when we arrived with the furniture van exactly 3 years ago, we had a wonderful surprise because our sellers also loved them and they had planted great drifts everywhere!
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25 Feb, 2008
Spritz I would exchange my snow for yours anytime. These are beautiful. Mike C
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