Last year, Lord Heseltine had the honour of getting his very own snowdrop – Galanthus ‘Michael Heseltine’. The new species was handed to him by Joe Sharman, the snowdrop breeder known as Mr Snowdrop, ...

Breeding snowdrops is a long process. It takes four years to grow a flowering plant from seed, and up to another eight to ...

It’s almost bulb-planting season, and to celebrate, I thought I’d put the spotlight on one of the most popular spring flowers: the snowdrop. More specifically, the prettiest snowdrop varieties money ...

A series of events are set to get under way in Co Carlow to celebrate the coming of spring and the arrival of the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snowdrops are fall-planted bulbs that need a period of cold to flower. They are smaller in stature than their spring-blooming ...

The National Trust property is one of a number of sites in the region where these beautiful flowers can be seen.

Organisers say visitors could see more than 400 different types of snowdrop during the festival, including the Galanthus elwesii Gardeners at one of the UK's largest snowdrop collections have said ...

The exquisite beauty and variety of show-quality daffodils are evident to the casual observer, but the traits that distinguish one snowdrop from another are harder to understand. So is the passion for ...

Snowdrops herald spring and embarking on a snowdrop walk can be a joyous activity on a gloomy winter’s day.

Visitors can admire striking views, woodland gardens and cloud-clipped yew hedges at this 10-acre garden. The estate, which has snowdrops flowering from the end of January, also features an Edwardian ...

The exquisite beauty and variety of show-quality daffodils are evident to the casual observer, but the traits that distinguish one snowdrop from another are harder to understand. So is the passion for ...