Tag: snowdrops

Galanthus “Trumps” at Pond Cottage

Feb 25, 2025

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fay

in Diary, Environment, Gardening, Tales from Pond Cottage

Here we are. At the start of our visiting season I’m not in the best of moods but I stop reading the news to take a walk round the garden and I can’t help smiling when I find the snowdrop given by a dear, gardening friend last year. Perky, eye catching, Galanthus “Trumps” could do…
Snowdrops greet Pond Cottage spring in a hard hat

Mar 12, 2023

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fay

in Scotland’s Garden Scheme, Tales from Pond Cottage

And here they are. Almost incredibly, undaunted by digging and draining and ditching and dumping, the first sharp green shoots have poked through the rubble and hardcore round our cottage. That’s hope for you. Hope in a hard hat.