Looking around I could see clumps of snowdrops which brightened the drab countryside. |
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Others which are suitable include snowdrops, iris, scillas, muscari and chionodoxas. |
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In my article Snowdrops or the Confessions of a Galanthophile, I revealed that I am obsessed with snowdrops. |
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Loaded, I made for St Mary's Church in the corner, with a graveyard, an Anglo-Saxon shaft, and bright with snowdrops and aconites. |
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The narcissi, snowdrops and primuli are in bloom and the daffodils are starting to shoot. |
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Apart from a pale yellow primula, snowdrops are the only flowers in the front garden but despite this there is plenty of other interest. |
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And like snowdrops, crocuses will multiply each year, especially if they are planted in the very well-drained soil they prefer. |
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There's a green haze on the trees, and the snowdrops are blooming like anything. |
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Carefully rake leaves away from clumps of snowdrops and aconites, replanting any that have been lifted by frost. |
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From the first nodding snowdrops to the last bright tulips, spring bulb flowers proclaim the end of winter and bring back color to the landscape. |
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The signs of early spring are all around, with plants such as snowdrops and crocuses making their appearance as normal. |
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The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose. |
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Rachel Underwood, assistant administrator at Castle Howard, admires the snowdrops in the gardens of the stately home, near Malton. |
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It tolerates a lot of shade and is beautiful when planted together with Winter aconite and snowdrops. |
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It is the earliest of our primroses and the most reliable, appearing without fail each year, often blooming with the snowdrops in early February. |
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Flowers are blooming weeks earlier than usual with Castle Howard boasting daffodils, snowdrops, rhododendrons, azaleas and crocuses. |
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The gardens are bounded by rhododendrons as well as azaleas, while in the woodlands there are snowdrops, bluebells, daffodils and narcissi. |
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With two hands she sipped the warm, filling chocolate and watched the heavy snowdrops from the clouds twirl down quickly to the ground. |
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Currently full of snowdrops and mahonia, the garden is popular with patients and visitors alike. |
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There were white geese by the water, there's a pale scar of limestone if you look back, no snow but snowdrops, and then Rievaulx. |
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Incidentally, if you do decide on a witch hazel, underplant it with a carpet of snowdrops the combination is stunning. |
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As well as carpets of snowdrops in the five-acre garden, there are hellebores and other winter flowering plants to admire. |
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Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums. |
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I noticed the first little clump of snowdrops, by an old beech tree, as I was setting up my clay pigeon trap on the top of a steep bank. |
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Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the earth. |
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The village was humming with walkers, the snowdrops were nearly out and I ambled out and took Moor Lane into the countryside. |
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For 15 years he has carefully planted crocuses and snowdrops around lamp posts, on verges and beside a phone box in his street. |
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True there were some daffodils in early spring, and I have transplanted a few clumps of snowdrops that will give colour early next year. |
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The daffodils are up but haven't decided to open their heads yet but there are plenty of snowdrops and crocus in flower. |
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Many, such as snowdrops, crocuses, and early rock garden narcissi are supposed to come up in very early spring, even peeking through the snow. |
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The daffs were coming up outside my door, snowdrops throughout my lawn. |
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Hellebore foliage combines well with other shade-loving perennials like wild ginger, cyclamen or Pulmonaria, as well as with bulbs such as snowdrops or miniature daffodils. |
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Once off the A19, the roads to Kepwick were bordered by thick drifts of snowdrops and we found more growing alongside winter aconite in the small churchyard. |
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Have you been gambolling on the hillsides, skipping over bluebells and snowdrops whilst hiding eggs under tuffets of grass, listening to the call of new-born chicks? |
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We slipped through St Bartholomew's churchyard, snowdrops fading, the fruit and nut trees blossoming, and channelled down a track towards the River Ure. |
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Species propagated from bulbs, such as hyacinths, daffodils, snowdrops, bluebells and irises, often require cold winter temperatures to stimulate root development. |
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I sighed, turned the volume down, and returned to my drawing board where I was working on the umpteenth attempt to get my feelings for snowdrops down on paper. |
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Initially the trees were underplanted with heathers and bedding, but 15 years ago we started growing snowdrops and now the garden has a collection of roughly 120 varieties. |
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Laurel trees are budding and also daffodils and snowdrops are in bloom. |
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The children, as well as planting trees, also planted more than 150 bluebell bulbs and, had the weather been better, they could have planted snowdrops and daffodils too. |
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The signs of spring have been in evidence in the last week, with blossom, daffodils, snowdrops and crocuses brightening up Swindon after the winter gloom. |
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Underplanted with vinca, the pristine white blooms in flower now, the ground here and in much of the garden will be carpeted with snowdrops by next month. |
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This results in flora including birch trees, acacias, jessamine, wayfaring trees, crocuses, snowdrops, water lilies, and several grey-leaved perennials. |
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Why aren't the aconites and snowdrops showing and out first? |
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The snowdrops and aconites are nearly over but crocuses and daffodils are taking their place in the spotlight, and the foliage of early tulips may be poking through already. |
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In summer it bloomed with such richness that it hurt the eyes, flowers flushed to shrubs, the bluebells and snowdrops pushed their way through the drab dead leaves. |
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In between the ferns we have planted snowdrops and Omphalodes cappadocica, a relative of the forget-me-not which produces azure blue flowers in early spring each year. |
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As the snowdrops and daffodils surrender their last fading colour the forsythia and tulips blossom with a blaze of Easter glory and reflect the hope and joy of another season. |
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White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan. |
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The garden of artist EA Hornel, a charming informal and secret garden showing snowdrops. |
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Good specimens for naturalising in grass include crocus, narcissi, muscari, camassia, erythronium, snowdrops, scilla and ornithogalum. |
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Lift overcrowded snowdrops and winter aconites before the leaves die down, separate and replant immediately. |
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One that makes a classic companion for snowdrops is the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis. |
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Underplant with early flowering snowdrops, primroses and hellebores for a display to lift the spirits. |
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Near Wheddon Cross is Snowdrop Valley, which becomes filled with thousands of little white flowers called snowdrops during early spring. |
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As spring slowly arrives, snakes come out to bask in the sun, snowdrops emerge, and the great crested grebe does a dance. |
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Dwarf narcissi such as February gold and tete-a-tete brighten up spring planters as do snowdrops and grape hyacinth. |
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Put in scillas, snowdrops, tulips, daffodils, and crocuses as the moon wanes. |
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Sightings reported to Nature's Calendar, a Woodland Trust scheme, show there far fewer snowdrops, lesser celandine, hazel flowers and nesting rooks compared to last year. |
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From the spiky shoots of garden bulbs to the first tiny leaves of marsh marigolds and lesser celandine, from snowdrops to primulas, things are stirring. |
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