I love snowdrops as an early harbinger of spring in the Magic Garden, the flower that breaks winter’s spell releasing spring. I have three main sorts - ones that start the season, the ones I’ve naturalised from my parents’ garden in the NW Highlands and new ones that seem to come a bit later and are bigger than the others. With a little bit of doubt, I have identified that my early ones are Galanthus plicatus as the leaves are flat opposite eachother. I have sporadic ones all over the Magic Garden which I planted in November 2020 as bulbs.

The bigger snowdrop has wrap around leaves at its base so I think its Galanthus elwesii or one of its hybrids. I plan this year to get some more ‘in the green’ & plant them in the centre of the Magic Garden. This is supposed to be the best way of planting them & is how I planted the ones from Badachro.