Everywhere I looked there were snowdrops in varying stages of growth, some were barely poking through the earth, just the very tips of their leaves, while others had already grown, shown themselves at their best and were finished flowering and are now swelling their seedpods. The ones in full flower were so pristine and beautiful, untouched by the extreme cold and prettily nodding in the wind.
Remember, if you have snowdrops in your garden to not let the clumps grow too large without splitting and replanting them in smaller groups or even singly (they will soon clump up), left undivided they may succumb to a virus and you risk losing them all. The best time to plant or split snowdrops is when they have finished flowering and still have a good show of green leaves.
The camellia buds have grown fat during the long, cold winter and I look forward to their pretty flowers. On the bank behind the camellia is a veronica cascading down, it is a mass of buds and already has a few open flowers. These flowers look nothing by themselves but when seen en masse they are breathtaking, and they flower for such a long time.
There are still drifts and clumps of aconites around the garden, like the snowdrops they like the shade. Another shade loving plant is chinodoxia or glory of the snow, a pretty snowdrop-sized flower, very pale blue and with a mid-blue stripe running down the centre of the outside of the petals.
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