Comments on: Snowdrops At The Chelsea Physic Garden https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bintylicious https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-855218 Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:05:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-855218 I love snowdrops. They are the first in the list of my favourite flowers as to me they signify that winter’s grip does not have much longer to go, even if we should still get snow!

They never fail to bring a smile to my face and fill me with optimism for the coming of my favourite season.

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-829146 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:12:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-829146 Wonderful photographs (and a date for next year’s diary for us provincial types)! You may like to know a bit more about Elwes and his snowdrop: http://bit.ly/1EBcwM9

]]> By: Anne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-828960 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:46:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-828960 A lovely way to start the day…I especially love the kokedama hanging displays of snowdrops…a much easier way to view them up close without getting your knees muddy! Thank you for sharing your visit.

]]> By: Katya https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-828828 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:42:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-828828 This and your other posts on the bluebells and auriculas are just glorious! Thank you for brightening the day.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-828588 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:20:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-828588 How lovely all these snowdrops are, and the aconites and hellebores too. Sadly snowdrops do not like my heavy clay soil but a genealogy researcher friend suggested that I grow them in pots as he does, and having seen all these here I must try to do that, they are so beautiful. The friend does grow the very expensive ones but I think I will start with the more common varieties, unless the lottery comes up trumps of course! I was surprised to see the hellebores on bloom as mine are still only just waking up, the plant that keeps me going in winter is the winter jasmine which is really good at keeping the spirits up in those dark dreary days.

Thank you as always for sharing these photos.

Pauline.

]]> By: Cornish Cockney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-828387 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:25:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-828387 Thank you for bringing Snowdrop Days to me, as I was feeling a bit guilty that I wasn’t planning on going to it this year!

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-828086 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:34:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-828086 — Spring can come! —

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Charlotte Frost https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-828047 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:04:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-828047 So it really is winter aconite time, and my attempt to grow them has failed yet again? Thank goodness for snowdrops.

]]> By: moyra peralta https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-827895 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:10:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-827895 What a super start to the day; thank you GA.
Ah, that delightful moss ball!

]]> By: Jacqueline Sarsby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/02/snowdrops-at-the-chelsea-physic-garden/#comment-827886 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:06:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128984#comment-827886 Thank you so much for this! I have a snowdrop farm in Devon and, like you, love the ordinary snowdrops as much as any rare variety, in fact what I love is the great swathes of white flowers in the clearings in the woods. I sell bunches of my snowdrops in Totnes and Stroud, and have been doing it for 14 years. Actually, I sold the first bunches in 1987. Picking the flowers does not harm the bulbs as long as the leaves remain, but treading on them does the damage, so I don’t encourage friends to help! But they still do.

The Snowdrop Lady.

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