10 low-cost ways to love those snowdrops
Have you seen any snowdrops yet this year?
Every year I look forward to particularly beautiful, delicate flowers, pushing their heads through the cold soil letting us know that spring is on its way. This winter has been rather strange, warmer than usual, and I am sure it will affect the flowering of snowdrops.
Flowers that should be in flower later are already here; camellias, daffodils, crocuses, magnolias in bud …but I haven’t seen any snowdrops in my garden yet.
Single snowdrop © Nita Joy Designs
I had the privilege of seeing the gorgeous butterflies at Wisley last weekend and I saw a little patch of snowdrops – which always brings me joy.
If you are looking for some garden suggestions to admire snowdrops, here are some affordable ideas 
NGS garden 6 Robins Wood in Cambridgeshire
- Opens 26th February
- Price Adults £2.50, children free
- Info: Is a small woodland garden with over 200 varieties of snowdrops.
Snowdrop Valley at Wheddon Cross in Exmoor
- Opens: 4th – 26th February
- Price: Adults £4.00, Senior Citizens £3.00, Children (5-15) £2.00
- Info: a beautiful valley walk, full of snowdrops; it is a well organised event.
NGS garden – Tregoose in Cornwall
- Opens January 29th, 5, 19th February.
- Price: Adults £3.50, children free
- Info: Is a 2 acre garden with a variety of spring bulbs and a snowdrop collection
Painswick Rococo Gardens in the Cotswolds
- Opens: From the 10th January
- Price: Adults £6.00, over 60′s £5.50, Children £3.00
- Info: on of the largest naturalised planting of snowdrops in the country
Snape Cottage Plantsman’s Garden in Dorset
- Opens 25-26th February
- Price £3.00, under 16′s free
- Info: This is a lovely mature garden with several specialist collections.
Kempsford Manor in Gloucester
- Opens from 12th February
- Price £4.00
- Info: A mature garden with sweeping snowdrops alongside a old canal. You can even stay there!
Brandy Mount Gardens in Hampshire
- Opens 8th, 11th, 12th, 19th February.
- Price Adults £3.00, children free
- Info: They hold the national collection of snowdrops
Heale Gardens in Wiltshire
- Opens from the 1st February. Snowdrop special days 5th, 12th February.
- Price: Adults £5.00, children £2.50
- Info: A beautiful garden, with a stunning view of snowdrops! One of my favourite gardens to visit.
Easton Walled Gardens in Lincolnshire
- Opens: 18th-26thFebruary
- Price: Adults 6.00 Childrens £2.00
- Info: Naturalised snowdrops cover the river banks for a lovely walk
Scotland has a special snowdrop festival
- Opens from the 4th of February until 18th March.
- Price: between free and £12.00
- Info: 50 gardens are taking part.
- (For a bit more money you can even experience the beauty of snowdrops seen by starlight at Cambo woodland Gardens in Fife – 11th-19th February. This starlight event is a bit more pricey at £9 during the week and £12 at the weekend for adults, 3-16 years £5.50, free for under 3′s. There are family tickets available.
I hope you enjoy the stunning snowdrops this year; and have a lovely day out.
What’s your favourite garden to admire the beauty of snowdrops?
About Anita HuntAnita Hunt specialises in botanical photography, and is the creator of beautiful, luxury greeting cards and gifts, inspired by the beauty of nature. You can join her on Twitter @NitaJoyDesigns and facebook. She is also a children's author and anti-bullying campaigner Are You Being Bullied?
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Oh Anita, the gardens at Cambo in Spring are something to behold, the daffs and snowdrops are in abudance and quite breathtaking.
Our snowdrop crop this year seems to have been decimated by the gardener, he must have thrown half the bulbs out in with his weeding, so disappointing.
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Hi Jackie,
Thank you for your comment
I would love to see the snowdrops at Cambo, particularly with their starlit event!
Sorry to hear you are missing a lot of snowdrops in your garden
I spotted one snowdrop in my garden; it flowered on a particularly tough day, and loved what it signifies – hope
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Hi Anita,
Not a single snowdrop has appeared in my garden this year. They don’t do particularly well in our sandy soil, but I can usually rely on a few to pop up. I do have crocuses / croci flowering though, and the daffodils are in bud, so I will have to ‘make do’ with those
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Hi Angela, thank you so much for joining the conversation
My single snowdrop is holding it’s own, and hanging on in there, dispite the elements
I admire it greatly!
I too have some crocuses and dafdodils coming through, but will be looking forward to my grand snowdrop expeditions. I hope I manage to find some new, interesting places to add to my collection
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