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Lifting the winter blues Andrew Lambie Ness Botanic Gardens is home to a wide range of snowdrops which provide a welcome respite from the darkness of the winter months and herald the beginnings of life, with their lush green leaves and milky white heads poking through the soil in the early part of theyear. Snowdrop is the common name for the genus Galanthus (from the Greek meaning ‘Milk Flower’). Consisting of nineteen species, these delightful plants occur naturally from the Pyrenees to Iran and as far south as Sicily and the Lebanon. In nature, they flower as early as late autumn (G.reginaeolgae subsp. reginae-olgae which can be seen in the Alpine house at Ness Botanic Gardens) through to August (G. platyphyllus). In Britain flowering occurs from late autumn but generally only through to March although this is dependant on the species. Here at Ness, we grow over sixty different species and cultivars. The best represented is the familiar common Snowdrop G. nivalis which can be seen at several locations throughout the Gardens. These came from original plantings by A.K. Bulley, Ness Botanic Gardens founder and keen plant collector, and while some may not remain in their original locations, those in the Azalea Border running next to the Herbaceous Border do remain as Bulley planted them. The Pinewoods and Azalea Walk play host to bigger populations, including robust and larger varieties such as G. ‘Robin Hood’, and G. ‘Magnet’. On the opposite sides of the Garden, the Rock Garden plays host to smaller populations of snowdrops such as the delightful double bloom Galanthus nivalis ‘Blewsbury Tart’. Due to the enduring popularity of the ever increasing snowdrop collection at Ness, we now run an annual self-guided Snowdrop Trail around the Gardens as well as our popular guided Snowdrop Walks in February 2018, more details can be found at our website: www.nessgardens.org.uk/learn/walks We’d love it if you could join us! 1 Advertisement Feature
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