Snowdrop Catalogue
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The common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) is the best-known representative of a small genus of about 20 species in the family Amaryllidaceae that are among the first bulbs to bloom in spring. Although different species are usually isolated geographically in the wild, when they meet in gardens cross pollination occurs, seed is set and new hybrid forms arise.
People spot these variants, cosset them and pass them around, with or without a name. There are now many hundreds of named forms doing the rounds. While many are of dubious difference or value and some are the same plant under different names, nonetheless, many are different, striking, strange, easy going, rare, difficult to please or a combination of these things.
The plants we grow and offer can only ever be a selection of those available. But those that we do offer are listed because we believe they have merit in some way or another.
Finally, we are able to offer them because we are able to obtain, grow and increase them. There remain many snowdrops that are not available or are unobtainable at a reasonable price and some that we fail to grow successfully.
We have catalogued snowdrops by different characteristics, which will allow you to narrow your search and group similar plants together. Otherwise everything is in the alphabetical list under their cultivar names.
Snowdrops should not be confused with their nearest relatives Snowflakes, Leucojum species. Leucojum vernum (Spring Snowflake) is often grown with snowdrops and the few varieties that we have are thus included.
