In article , Sacha
wrote:

Pam Moore5/1/04 3:58

I saw the first snowdrops today, in a front garden near me. 3 inches
tall and white buds erect. Mine in similar situation are not showing
yet.
Can't beat Robert's daffodils though!!

(between Bristol and Bath)

Our snowdrops are nowhere near flowering yet. Whoever planted them in this
garden must have loved them, because there are tens of thousands of them but
no *very* early ones. All seem to flower at different times and the ones
nearest to the house are only just coming through the grass.

My snowdrops are not near flowering either, but the Crocus laevigatus
fontenay is still blooming (started late in December) & Crocus ancyrensis
is well up & just getting ready. There are buds on "Chinese Lily"
Narcissus but this week is a major cold-snap so I worry those buds will be
ruined (this is a narcissus for forcing indoors, or for further south
gardens; it will USUALLY grow well on Puget Sound, but then we don't get
quite such cold winters every year, so I'm worrying for it this week). I
plant winter-blooming stuff though so that the wait for spring flowers
isn't painful, & right now the Cyclamen coums are full of magenta buds.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/