Snowdrop of the Day - Week 6

Week 6 of The Garden House 'Snowdrop of the Day images, and these are the ones we featureded between the 16th and 22nd of February.

Galanthus 'Cowhouse Green'

Galanthus 'Joe Spotted'

Galanthus nivalis 'Bungee'

Galanthus nivalis 'Egret'

Galanthus nivalis 'Viridapice'

Galanthus plicatus 'Wendy's Gold'

Galanthus nivalis 'Blonde Inga'

Galanthus nivalis and G.plicatus varieties featured heavily this week.  This is their season and they continue the display we began featuring back on the 12th January.  Although there are still snowdrops to come the season is nearly over - but there will another 7 next Friday and possibly a few more after that.  Hope you've enjoyed them,

Snowdrop of the Day - Week 2

These are the snowdrops I've posted for  the second week of The Garden House Snowdrop festival.  These were in flower between 20th and 26th January 2024.  The number of cultivars and species in flower is ramping up and there are some interesting ones among those selected.

Galanthus elwesii 'Grayswood'

Galanthus elwesii 'Kite'

Galanthus elwesii 'Natalie Garton'

Galanthus elwesii 'Sickle'

Galanthus 'L.P.Long'

Galanthus 'Aunt Nellie's Danglers'

Galanthus 'Starling'

I hope this is beginning to give you a flavour of the collection!

Snowdrop of the day -Week 1 

The snowdrop collection at The Garden House has grown over the last few years and, thanks to gifts and donations from other Galanthus collections, now encompasses over 500 species and varieties.  Every year they run a Snowdrop festival.  This year they started on 12 January and will continue every Friday, Saturday and Sunday till mid March.  This allows early, mid season and late flowering snowdrops to be seen. 

 Apart from photographing the collection, I also post a 'Snowdrop of the Day' image on their Instagram and Facebook sites to illustrate the diversity among the collection.  During the festival I've decided to add each week's image set to my own blog.  Although the images may be from previous years, all the snowdrops illustrated were in flower during the week of posting to give other snowdrop enthusiasts an indication of likely flowering times.

Here's the images from the 12th to the 19th January 2024:

Galanthus elwesii 'Orion'

Galanthus 'Franz Joseph'

Galanthus plicatus 'Yaffle'

Galanthus 'Trumps'

Galanthus 'Rosie'

Galanthus 'Magnet'

Galanthus elwesii 'November Queenspot'

Hopefully these weekly summaries will give an idea of the breadth of the collection at this wonderful Devon garden.