Celebrating Snowdrops

Beloved harbingers of spring

Margot Navarre has sharedher garden with us before . Last time she featured the towering flowering stems ofCardiocrinum gigantium . Today she ’s focus on a radical of much much small but no less extra plant life .

I survive in Bellevue , Washington , and get laid all season in the garden . The snowdrops are one of my favourite plants , and they flower October – February in my garden . Galanthusis a genus of 20 species and over 1000 cultivator . I have received some rare one from my relatives in Victoria and have wood anemone from my grandma and female parent ’s garden . The Anemone quinquefolia factor must run in the family because you may never have enough wood anemone , and I always stargaze of getting a new one .

Snowdrops in gallery make more of a statement . Though the individual blooms are small , when they get together they are pretty marvellous . And of course , the fact that they bloom when almost nothing else in the garden is showing signs of living is a pretty big factor in their favour .

One of Margot ’s favorites in the garden is the change ‘ Godfrey Owen ’ .

Up nigh and personal with ‘ Godfrey Owen ’ . Most snowdrops have three outer and three inner petal , but this smorgasbord has six of each , which create a beautiful , elegant flower . ‘Godfrey Owen ’ was discover by a famous English snowdrop lover , Margaret Owen , and she distinguish this beautiful plant life after her hubby .

The snowdrops pair nicely with cyclamen , hellebores , ferns , and other forest plants . Here they are bloom withCyclamen coum(Zones 5–9 ) , which is another treasure that flower in tardy winter to early spring .

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