Although it may seem a little strange to make a trip to a garden to photograph flowers, I set off for Green Spring Gardens, a county-run historic garden last Friday. I suspected that snowdrops (g. Galanthus) would be in bloom and I was not disappointed. I spotted several large clusters of these small white flowers scattered throughout the garden beds.
Some years you can find snowdrops peeking out of a covering of snow, but we have not yet had any snow this winter. Instead I found the snowdrops poking out of the reddish-brown ground cover of fallen leaves and pine needles. I did not have my macro lens with me, but managed to get some decent close-up shots with my Tamron 18-400mm lens as well as an overview of one of the patches of snowdrops that I encountered.
When spring comes, I hope to see the somewhat similar-looking snowflake flower (g. Leucojum). The way that I usually tell them apart is to look at the individual petals. The snowdrop petals are pure white, but the petal of each of the snowflake flowers has a little green dot.
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Wow! Lucky you! Even with our mild winters, no chance of snowdrops here on the NH Seacoast. Thank you.
Lovely.
Aren’t they gorgeous?
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Gorgeous. I love snowdrops.
Thanks for these winter beauties Michael.
Hi Mike
We love snowdrops and therefore we blogged about them a couple of days ago as well. We live near Litttle Walsingham which is famous for big carpets of snowdrops in the Abbey grounds. We got quite some snowdrops in our garden as well.
With warm greetings from the cold sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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It is wonderful to hear of your experiences with snowdrops, Klaus. When I take photos of plants, birds, and other creatures, I never know for sure how common or widespread they may be. Must confess that my knowledge of UK geography is not very deep, so I had to check on-line to find Little Walsingham. I just checked out your recent posting on snowdrops and loved it. The photos were superb, but what really grabbed my attention was the very sweet drawing at the beginning of the posting. Wow! I also really enjoyed the Song of the Snowdrop Fairy. Winter here has been mild, but I impatiently look forward to the arrival of spring.
Thank you, dear Mike.
We very much like that you like our dear Master’s pictures.
We live at the North Norfolk coast that’s the northern part of East Anglia, an area with a long Viking tradition.
In the end, we had quite a sunny winter here with a light frost (17F). We were outside every day. But we miss the snow. In some years we get some snow here, in other years there is no snow.
Wishing you a wonderful week
The Fab Four of Cley
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