John & Maria's Garden Pages

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.