A Tradition of Snowdrops

An annual gift celebrating the end of winter

Today ’s photograph are from Jane Donelon .

Back in 2008 my boy , Jim , convey my daughter , Jean , and me some snowdrops(Galanthusspecies and crossbreed , Zones 3–8 ) from his New Jersey garden . It was our favorite holiday gift . The tradition has preserve , and each winter we receive a bucketful ofsnowdropsthat we pot up to love inside . In theearly springwhen the ground has thawed in Maine , we establish them outside in our garden . The snowdrops have chop-chop multiplied ; extras have been shared with ally . This year I ’m giving them to neighbour . I ’m look forward to our little locality in Brunswick , Maine , soon becoming alive with snowdrop , bringing beauty and pleasure to neighbors unseasoned and sometime — and food for hungry bees awake from their longsighted winter ’s respite .

The snowdrop tradition commence in 2008 with great joy .

We enjoy them in pots inside during the wintertime until thesoilhas thawed , and then they can be planted out of doors in the garden .

wood anemone , thefirst flowers of natural spring , are flower along the Harlan Fiske Stone wall . The bee will soon discover them .

audacious snowdrop are not bothered by snowfalls .

Over time the snowdrops have procreate and bloom beforecrocusin the front border .

A clump of double Anemone quinquefolia ( Galanthus nivalis‘Flora Pleno ’ , Zones 3–7 ) flower along the hillside path near a very dingy hellebore(Helleborushybrid , Zones 5–9 ) .

This special wood anemone cultivar , Galanthus‘Viridipice ’ , was purchase online .

Another cultivar — frilly , greenGalanthus‘Blewbury Tart’—joined the collecting . Each one is a small treasure .

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