Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Thanksgiving Snowdrop
For the last several years, this little snowdrop has bloomed in November; it is in a patch of Galanthus elwesii bulbs, but at first I thought it must be one of the fall-blooming species of galanthus that somehow got mixed in with elwesii (which blooms January-February, depending on the winter). After some research, I found that it was a naturally occurring late-fall blooming variety of elwesii. The first time it bloomed, it looked very fragile and kind of sick. Last year it looked a little better, but it hadn't reappeared this year, so I assumed it was either a goner, or it had made up its mind to bloom in early spring like all of the other snowdrops. Today, as I was taking a quick look around the garden before it gets buried in our first snow, there it was, blooming as if nothing was unusual. I marvel at its jaunty demeanor in the face of on-coming winter, but it also makes me cringe a little.
// posted by IBOY @ 10:52 AM 
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These Thanksgiving flowers are such a treat. Last year I had a Thanksgiving hellebore. This year it was a little cyclamen. Snowdrops are special, however because they really do portend the spring, a sometime difficult concept when you have the first snowfall.
Thanks for this picture and the pictures all year.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks for this picture and the pictures all year.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I wasn't aware that there was an early-blooming variety of G. elwesii - how great! I never worry about them; I've dug under the snow & found them blooming unscathed.
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