A few days ago I visited the Chawton House Library Library gardens. This is a wonderful private library specialising in early English women's work and as you may know is based in the home village of Jane Austen. I visited with a group of friends to see the wonderful Snowdrop drifts they have there. I love this simple little flower, which were traditionally know as snow piercers, you can't help but be inspired by the way they do pierce their way up through the frozen ground at this time of year to display such delicate blooms. Again they remind me of childhood and how excited we were to pick the first wildflower of the year back then. Of course we wouldn't do that today as they are protected, but I have some cultivated varieties growing in my garden and sometime put a few into a small vase on the kitchen table so that they can be inspected and their pure beauty appreciated at close quarters, even though folklore says that it is very unlucky to bring them into the house. Although the Galanthophiles, (the name for Snowdrop collectors), who discovered a green tinted sport which they named Green Tear had a lucky days when a single bulb sold online for £368 and another single bulb of a yellow type called Elizabeth Harrison sold for £725!
Such simple beauty is definitely a thing to behold!!!
