Withdrawal Symptoms

[Alan_b]

We have now had over three weeks of cold weather during which time I have barely laid eyes on a snowdrop.  It's very depressing.   

[Michael J Campbell]

I haven't even laid eyes on a snowflake,even more depressing with -12c and no snow cover.   Lots of dead plants.

[mark smyth]

The snow in my garden is getting less and less but the ground is rock hard

[Maggi Young]

I do sympathise with the plight of you Drop Fiends so I have a useful suggestion to make..... tootle across to the Crocus pages..... there's colour there!!
Admittedly from Crocus all the way from Bulgaria, but what the heck..... enjoy!!!

[PDJ]

I have a better suggestion find a comfortable arm chair, a bottle of good scotch, a warm fire to sit by and a snowdrop book with plenty of pictures.

[Maggi Young]

Fair enough, Paul.... in that case I suggest a laptop and a long browse through all the snowdrop pages in this forum and the old forum pages.......
http://www.srgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=topics  = old forum.....
that should be a two or three bottle task, at least!!

[Sinchets]

I am stunned- the weather and moan pages seem to be full of people who have seen far too much white already! Or is it 'the wrong kind of white'? 

[mark smyth]

My area had a partial quite fast thaw today and I can see snowdrop noses again 

[Maggi Young]

The Forumists come to the rescue once more: have a look at this new thread...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4790.msg129734#msg129734

......to see something every bit as prettty as a snowdrop wood.... and looking rather similar, in many ways! 

[vivienr]

......to see something every bit as prettty as a snowdrop wood.... and looking rather similar, in many ways! 

Maggi, you just don't get it....NOTHING else will do

[Maggi Young]

......to see something every bit as prettty as a snowdrop wood.... and looking rather similar, in many ways! 

Maggi, you just don't get it....NOTHING else will do

What, not even these....... http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4766.msg129746#msg129746  ?

[PDJ]

Look on the bright side the snowdrops will wait under the snow for better weather.  Failing that try your GP for help.

[maggiepie]

For a minute there I thought I was in the moan thread 

[Alan_b]

The Forumists come to the rescue once more: have a look at this new thread...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4790.msg129734#msg129734

......to see something every bit as prettty as a snowdrop wood.... and looking rather similar, in many ways! 

An attractive flower but:

• They don't grow in the UK so no scope to 'explore, document or enact on their great range of variability' as there is with snowdrops (even if that variability in snowdrops is only apparent under close examination).
• That's a flowering dandelion in picture 2, so they must flower much later in the spring than snowdrops do.  Snowdrops manage to flower at a time when they have very little competition - a month or two later and their beauty would get drowned out by other more showier bulbs.

[Sinchets]

Ah, now I understand- it must be a 'climatatic zone' thing! Snowdrops here- 2 species both native- flower when other plants flower- so although I can appreciate a snowdrop wood is a thing of beauty I don't want to spend my whole day on knees looking for slight differences. Especially when there are Crocus, Anemone, Isopyrum, Cyclamen, Scilla and Corydalis flowering with them- depending of course on location and altitude. Looking back British woodlands seem pretty lacklustre until the bluebells start (unless someone has planted nonindigineous species there)