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Beautiful Garden With Snowdrops – Bells Renewal
Year after year, with unfailing loyalty, appear in early January of thin spikes bristling green bare ground. Then, slowly but surely, Lancelot leaves grow. One fine morning, the flowers are there. If the sun is generous, the flower-shaped white drop turns into a bell flourished, allowing the bees enjoy the sweetness to bring some fresh pollen to the hive. The snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) is part of our native flora. It occurs in nature, but he lives mostly in the vicinity of houses, although common in the gardens while simplicity of our grandmothers. Rarely available in nurseries, the snowdrop is really a plant to share. Often, the tuft widening along the trail is the memory of a relative or friend who has offered few bulbs taken from his garden.
Collections
Channel addition, small white bells receive special attention. Not only British gardeners have a great love for these flowers that brave the winter but they also collect different species and cultivars of snowdrops. Harvests of botanists around the world, followed by work hybridization and selection have given rise to dozens of different snowdrops. All these plants have leaves with ribbon and white flowers hanging in bells. So these are secondary features that distinguish species and cultivars. A snowdrop (Galanthus elwesii ‘Flore Pleno’) forms a double flower may already suspect that by far the width of the corolla. Galanthus ‘Magnet’ has a long stalk while fine after which the flower sways in the slightest breeze. A snowdrop is called ‘Kite’, which in English means “kite”. This is probably due to its long petals this snowdrop has been baptized.