National Garden Scheme Snowdrop Festival 2019
Reading time 9 minutes
Galanthophiles rejoice, snowdrop season is upon us once again. In recent years snowdrop appreciation has become a mainstream activity with hundreds of gardens throwing […]
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The Best Things in Life are Free
Reading time 5 minutes
I have largely avoided being drawn into snowdrop mania this year. I have no snowdrops in my garden (which is […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 9 minutes
One event in my calendar heralds the approach of spring like no other: the RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair. Throughout the first, frozen […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2017
Reading time 9 minutes
The RHS London shows ought to be a pleasure for me to visit; they take place just five minutes from my office and […]
Three Seagulls
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I am not sure how I feel about the new convention of naming winter storms. Is it just me, or could it be that […]
Seeing Snowdrops
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One of my unwritten New Year’s resolutions is to address my southern bias when it comes to writing this blog. As someone who’s never […]
Chelsea Physic Garden – Nick Bailey’s ‘Best in Snow’
Reading time 13 minutes
Early in February I went along to the Chelsea Physic Garden for one of their annual snowdrop days. I was lucky enough to bag […]
Snowdrop Week: Be a Galanthus Geek
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5 Things You May Not Know About Snowdrops: US military police stationed in the UK during WWII were known as snowdrops because they wore white […]
Snowdrop Week: Solitary Seagull
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I have a love-hate relationship with seagulls. Living by the seaside, as I do, I would not be without the herring gulls’ screeching call to remind me […]
Snowdrop Week: Digging Diggory
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Those folk who’d sell their souls for a rare snowdrop have two things in common – a willingness to open their wallet for a small, […]
Snowdrop Week: Japanese Kokedama
Reading time 5 minutes
If they didn’t literally smack you full in the face, the sheer ingenuity of the hanging snowdrop decorations at the Chelsea Physic Garden last […]
Snowdrop Week: Galanthus ‘John Gray’
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This week is snowdrop week here at The Frustrated Gardener. I’ll be celebrating the glories of the alluring genus Galanthus in all its virginal whiteness. Never fear, I […]