#galanthophiles

Should you pick #Snowdrops and put them in a vase?

Snowdrops were not indigenous to Britain, possibly introduced to this country by Italian monks in the 15th century or as early as the Roman occupation. By the time John Gerard wrote his Herball, published in 1596, snowdrops were well established as garden plants, “maintained and cherished…for the beauty and rareness of the flowers, and sweetness of their smell”, so much so that he had to remind…

"A mania has developed around snowdrops," says Matt Bishop, a leading expert on the plant and co-author of Snowdrops: A Monograph Of Cultivated Galanthus.

"There has been a big increase in interest in them. Like anything in life, there are fashions in plants and snowdrops just seem to have caught people's imagination."