by Elizabeth Cairns | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
This has been an extraordinary season. In January it was so cold that we feared there would be little to see on our snowdrop open days. Then a week of warm weather brought many snowdrops into flower and they were looking brilliant for the NGS days. Since then we have...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dreadful weather with storms Eunice and Franklin doing their worst has spoilt the end of the snowdrop season. Galanthophiles are a hardy bunch of necessity but there is no pleasure at all in walking slowly to peer at clumps of snowdrops while huddling in a heavy coat...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our NGS open days have come and gone. The weather was reasonably kind and we enjoyed seeing old friends and some new ones too united in a love for these remarkable plants which provide cheerfulness and hope on gloomy days. Our copse is now filling up with snowdrop...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Several weeks of cold weather with hard frosts and clear skies at night and some wonderful sunsets put the snowdrops on hold and I was beginning to get anxious about our National Gardens Scheme open days on 5th – 7th February. Fortunately this last week has been...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
It is now less than two weeks until our NGS open days. it has been cold so our snowdrops seem to be a little late this year but we think there should be plenty in flower for the snowdrop weekend on 5 – 7 February. Some old friends are appearing and it is lovely...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Jan 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
The marvellously warm days of late December brought more of the snowdrops in the garden to life. Three Ships is still flowering three weeks on but is now joined by the amazing Mrs Macnamara. Often she is flowering by Christmas but this year unaccountably she delayed...
