Pear Tree Cottage Garden: Selling the snowdrop

The green and rolling countryside of Worcestershire, England, is home to the cider apple orchards which surround the gardens of Pear Tree Cottage. They enjoy a sunny south westerly aspect with sweeping views across to Martley Hillside, Woodbury and Abberley clock tower. The Teme Valley lies just over the hill and, not far away, is the Herefordshire border. Although our climate is temperate, our seasons are often uncertain and always a challenge to a gardener! This began in 2010 & follows the weekly ups and downs of garden work chronicling both successes and failures but, above all, demonstrates the fun enjoyed by three people who regularly garden in all weathers

21 February 2013

Selling the snowdrop

How could I resist showing a few snowdrops on the blog? Most of the snowdrops in this garden are in the Woodland Border and it's still too wet to tread on the soil for a close up. These are strays in the orchard. I think that these bravest of flowers always deserve excessive limelight. They may look a picture of innocence but here they showing the world how tough they are when little else dares to show more than a tiny green shoot. I love their bitter sharp scent and their little nodding heads. These are all the more precious as there aren't great carpets of them in this garden. They are multiplying to respectable numbers but the trouble is; you can never have enough of a flower that shouts, 'Winter's nearly over!'