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• 1 Ellis Hollow // Dec 30, 2007 at 3:41 pm

  Last year, I photographed snowdrops in full flower outside my office in early January. So maybe you’ll only need to wait two weeks.

• 2 Carol // Dec 30, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  I hope to have a crocus or two blooming in a month or so. Really!

  It’s nice when winter gives us a break in the weather so we can get outside to see what ’s going on in the garden.

  Carol, May Dreams Gardens

• 3 Don // Dec 31, 2007 at 3:45 pm

  Well, Kathy, I think you’ll beat me in the great almost-annual snowdrop contest this year; we’ve got almost two feet of snow on the ground and it’s supposed to be well below zero at night for a day or so.
  Don

• 4 Soilman // Jan 1, 2008 at 11:34 am

  Wow, I didn’t think you’d see snowdrops until late Jan. Here in the UK we have some in flower already, and the daffodils are just starting to push through the soil surface. But the nights are still so LONG! I can’t wait for April…

• 5 Kathy Purdy // Jan 1, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  Ellis Hollow, you and I both know it was an unusually mild winter, and snowdrops blooming in the heat sink of surrounding office buildings is not at all the same thing as snowdrops blooming in quasi-woodland. And I am pretty sure they are G. nivalis, one of the later blooming (but prolific) species. And they bloomed in March last year, when you shot some blooming in January.

  Carol, I know you will see crocuses soon. You see them much sooner than I do.

• 6 Kathy Purdy // Jan 1, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  Don and Soilman, it has since snowed since that mild day and the snowdrop tips are once again covered. The earliest I have ever had a snowdrop bloom was February. Don, if my snowdrops ever bloom before yours, I will take that as incontrovertible proof that the climate is irredeemably messed up. You would be surprised at how fast two feet of snow can disappear and how much growing those snowdrops do under snow cover.

• 7 wiseacre // Jan 1, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  You tease. Another 8 inches of snow greeted us this morning with well over 2 feet on the ground now. But it was nice to see those buds poking up. I’ll be waiting for the flower photos.

• 8 Matron // Jan 1, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  You are a tease! They are such a positive, hopeful sign that another year’s gardening is soon on the way. Thank you.

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• 10 Kelly // Jan 1, 2008 at 9:51 pm

  Well spotted - lucky you. Me, I’m happy that this year I’ll actually have some to look for (eventually), newly planted this fall, and now somewhere beneath more than 2 feet of New Hampshire snow.

• 11 Kathy Purdy // Jan 1, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  Kelly, knowing where to look is half the battle.

• 12 Mr. McGregor's Daughter // Jan 2, 2008 at 4:49 pm

  I grow G. elwesii because in warm years I have Snowdrops blooming in December (1996-97 was such a year). We seem to be getting an old-fashioned winter here, so while all my Snowdrops have sprouted, I fear I won’t see any blooms til February, even if I dig out the snow to see them.

• 13 CommonWeeder // Jan 7, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  You offer hope, but right now, even though the temperatuare is 45 degrees, I have at least a foot of snow on the ground.

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