The emergence of bulbs in spring heralds the annual start of the garden springing back into life from its winter slumber. The sight of the early bloomers, such as snowdrops and winter aconites, can be ...

Snowdrops signal spring, even when the view outdoors may not look spring-like. Often poking up through the snow, they’re among the earliest flowers to bloom. Snowdrops are perennials, perfect for ...

What a hopeful way to welcome spring: the annual snowdrop tea Wednesday and Thursday to benefit the Thornton W. Burgess Society's Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden in East Sandwich. It was held at ...

Is it just me or are the evening hours gently growing longer. Winter may not be over just yet but there are promising signs that spring and the new growing year are stirring from their slumber. Of all ...

Besides being the shortest month, February has two other saving graces – snowdrops and aconites. Modest they may be, but these little flowers are more welcome in winter than a thousand roses. Plucky ...

The weather has been so raw in the first half of February that most of my single snowdrops have remained tightly shut and that’s very frustrating indeed. Luckily there have been exceptions. ‘Magnet’ ...

Here they come – the first signs that there really will be a spring in 2015. The snowdrops have arrived, each apparently fragile bloom equipped with a warhead that can pierce frozen snow. (Just look ...

At half past nine last Monday night, a tiny single bulb of an unusual form of Galanthus - what most of us know as the snowdrop - was sold for a record £357 on eBay. Swathes of delicate white snowdrops ...