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Top 25 Snowdrops Part Two
Nursery News: The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders now for mail order and pick up at...
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The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College
Nursery News: Charles Cresson’s Winter Interest Seminars have been rescheduled to March 2 & 4. To register click here. The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest...
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Snowdrops at Winterthur and Here
Nursery News: Charles Cresson’s Winter Interest Seminar has been rescheduled to March 23, to register click here. The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like...
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Hellebore Leaves
Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens’ first sale of the year, our Hellebore Extravaganza, will be Saturday, March 29, from 10 am to 3 pm. To get all the details, please sign up for our customer email...
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Winter Interest Plants 2014
Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens’ second sale of the year featuring early spring-blooming shade plants like hellebores, unusual bulbs, and pulmonaria is tentatively scheduled for April 11 and 12....
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Do All Snowdrops Look Alike?
‘Wasp’ certainly has all the elements of a typical snowdrop, but its long petals and unusual markings make it look just like the flying insect when the wind blows. Available in our 2015 catalogue,...
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New Snowdrops for 2015
The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders. To access the catalogue, please click here....
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Companion Plants for Snowdrops
The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders. To access the catalogue, please click here....
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New Snowdrop Book
The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders. To access the catalogue, please click here....
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Snowdrops at Winterthur and Here 2015
Thankfully, there’s a snowy landscape at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens today. Before I get to current events at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens, I want to encourage you to come to this year’s Bank to Bend lecture at...
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Late Fall Interest at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens
The sunrise lights up the heavy frost outlining the semi-evergreen leaves of native sweetbay magnolia. At Carolyn’s Shade Gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania, US, colorful fall foliage is mostly gone...
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My Snowdrop Article in Fine Gardening
Fine Gardening February 2016 You will all want to rush to your nearest purveyor of elegant magazines—Barnes and Noble in our area—and pick up the current issue (February 2016) of Fine Gardening. I...
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Just Relax and Enjoy the Flowers
Even though praecox means developing early, ‘Praecox’ Christmas rose hellebore is one of the main season varieties that bloom later in January or February. Here it is in mid-December. Like much of the...
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Snowdrops in Snow Caves
‘Spindlestone Surprise’, a rare yellow snowdrop peaks out from its cave. In my last post, I talked about our unseasonably warm weather, and we are back to that today. But in between we had the...
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Visiting a Snowdrop Collection
‘Bertram Anderson’ is a classic snowdrop with very large and elegant flowers, earning it a coveted Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. You have probably figured out that I am...
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Winterthur Snowdrop Event
Snow crocus in the courtyard behind the house at Winterthur. If you are crazy about snowdrops and other winter-blooming plants like snowflakes (leucojum), snow crocus, winter aconite, adonis, and...
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Snowflakes (Leucojum) Continue the Snowdrop Season
Summer snowflake with Celandine poppy in the woodland at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens. When snowdrops are finishing, their close relatives, snowflakes (Leucojum), are ready to take over the display. They...
View ArticleExceptional Snowdrops and Gardens, England February 2018
The 2019 Snowdrop Catalogue is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders, to access the catalogue please click here. The best place to see snowdrops in England is Colesbourne Park in the Cotswolds....
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The 2019 Snowdrop Catalogue is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders, to access the catalogue please click here. Rodmarton Manor My post Exceptional Snowdrops and Gardens: England February 2018...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of an Avon Bulbs Snowdrop
The 2019 Snowdrop Catalogue is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders, to access the catalogue please click here. ‘EA Bowles’ was one of the very lucky snowdrops selected to be displayed on the Avon...
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