Those are very pretty. And you seem to have sunshine too. Where are you located? I spotted my first one on Christmas Eve over here and now they're well out..

I am wondering about the id though. The broad leaves and rounded petals don't look like the G nivalis I am familiar with.

Hi Floral_uk. I am in PA, near east coast USA. We have quite a warm spell going on these past 2 weeks so I think these snowdrops bloom a bit early. I bought them as Nivalis but I suspect that they are mislabeled. Do you think they maybe G. Elwesii? THe flower is quite big. Do you happen to have a pic of G. Nivalis

Lucky you! What a nice sight those little cuties are! My relatives in Western PA have said it's not been too bad a winter so far. Me, I just came in from shoveling my walkway .....again. Snow is up to my mid-hips. I can't wait for warmth, sunshine, and my first bulbs to show themselves.

Oh, so nice! Today was such a nice day for us, too. I have a lot of greens poking up but no flowers yet.

Thanks Sandy and Posierosie. I am so sorry to hear that you have a bad winter, Sandy. Is mid-hip about the knee high or the middle of the hip? Anyway hopefully, February will pass quickly for both you and me. Feb. is the snowiest month for PA, I think.

Posierosie, I too look forward to see your pics of bulb blooms this year. Reading your other thread, sounds like you have a great deal of excitement of new blooms in your garden this year.

I am no Snowdrop expert by a long chalk. But doesn't elwesii have quite large flowers? I can't tell how big your blooms are.

This site has an astonishing number of pictures.

Omigosh, if you are not already in love with snowdrops, the site link given by Flora in above post will make a converter out of you. Wow, the snowdrops featured on this site are so beautiful! The photography is AMAZING! Drool and sigh with pleasure while looking over these snowdrop varieties. Thank you, Flora! I have loved English novels but snowdrops and English roses may just have pushed that off the top spot.

I'm thankfully rather immune to the snowdrops - I like the impact from having them en masse rather than the individual differences. I'm thankful because it can be one expensive obsession and I spend enough on the garden already!

Karen, I'm really hoping for a show this Spring, but the squirrels who fattened themselves on my cucumbers and tomatoes all summer are making suspicious holes near my tulips and I found a crocus corm above ground ..... I used a whole bottle of cayenne pepper and have two in reserve. I hope I acted fast enough!

posierosie, I am so sorry to hear about squirrels eating up your bulbs or disturbing your bulb bed to find treats. I have also found a few strange holes in my various beds. I don't know if the squirrels found anything tasty there. Though there are so much acorns from oak trees grown in my neighborhood that I think they would prefer the acorns to the tulips?

I agree that snowdrops are very expensive. That is why I will just enjoy them from my computer. I can only afford to grow the common ones offered at my garden center or the more affordable bulb place like Kvan Bourgandien.

Hi Karen, I won't know yet what the damage might be - if any, really. We'll see in Spring. :)

We use Leucojum since there's not enuf winter chill for Galanthus. Yours are great. How fast do they multiply? Like daffodils or like the slow hyacinths? TIA

Thanks Irisgal. I have started growing snowdrops since last year so I am not sure how quickly they multiply. But i have seen this man's garden patch 24ft X 3ft which he used to grow snowdrops and other spring bulbs. He told me he started with only a few 10 years ago and now there are many clumps of snowdrops all over the patch. He said that they put out seeds and the ants carried the seeds all over his patch.

posierosie, have you tried to put chicken wire on top of the soil and then remove it in spring before the bulbs to start growing? This method worked well for me. Another option is to use trays with bottom holes on which local nurseries place small pots of plants that we buy from them. This summer I didn't have time to cut chicken wires and just simply put these trays on top of the soil right after planting the bulbs. A couple of garden staples on each end of the tray would make it firmly attached to the soil. I then removed these trays a couple of months later and lo' and behold, no holes from squirrels. They probably forgot all about it.

Karen, your snowdrops look lovely. It's very special to see such dainty little flowers at this time of the year. Regular G. novalis didn't take off for me the first year though it was a very bad winter. I then turned to the double ones 'Flore Pleno' and had much more success, but yours look different.

My knowledge of snowdrops is limited and I can't say if yours are G. elwesii, but hope this description from Anna Pavord can help in identifying it: "You are most likely to recognize G. elwesii by its leaves which are very broad and very grey. It is also tall, twice the height of G. nivalis. It has two green blotches on the white inner petals, one above the other but sometimes they join together so that the entire inner petal appears green." I think she probably meant "greyish green' for leaves, not literally "grey." Hope this helps.

Thank you, vesfl for the above excellent description. I think the ones in my pic most likely G. elwesii. The leaves are very broad and flowers are quite large. I will pick a flower and leaf and compare to the above description.

Karen, unfortunately, mid-hip means up to the middle of my hips is how high the snow is along my walkway. It's staying below freezing so no melt off, either. This time or year I start to feel desperate for sunshine and warmth.

I don't have any snowdrops. I don't know where I could put them so they will show up. Maybe my rock wall? Crocus should be my first ones up.

Karen, thanks for the multiplying info. A friend, fairly new to gardening and crazy for bulbs, has just moved to cold winter territory. I'll recommend these to her.

Sandy, that is ALOT of snow! I don't think I have ever seen that much snow in my area. The most that we ever had was 30". Hang in there! March will be around the corner soon enough. Do you still force hyacinths this year?

Irisgal, when his snowdrops start to bloom, I will take a few pics to show his collection. Most of them grew from seeds so his snowdropsc collection is very interesting.

Karen, yes I do have two pots of forced hyacinths, but they're only up about an inch so far. We're finally getting some sunshine. It feels so good to see the sun again! But it's still below freezing. Baby steps to spring.

Hi everyone, thanks for the suggestions, I dumped two bottles of cayenne pepper and sprayed Bobex. The tulip shoots are not being disturbed anymore (haha!). Next year I will definitely be more proactive.

Until Spring we can all cheer each other up by sharing our flowers and indications of warm weather ahead.

That is so lovely floral!

Agree with posierosie completely! I would probably crawl on my knees and examine them. LOL I so love the website that you gave me the link above. Just amazing that there are so much slight variations among the varieties. Some of those Albino ones esp. the double are really stunning!

Nice to see a few spring flowers already, especially when we're just dropping into a cold spell which might actually count as our winter (it's been barely cold here for most of the first half). Still there are a few days ahead which will be well above freezing again and I think even this colder part of PA will have a few snowdrops open.

Once I start seeing photos like these and a few sprouts in my garden the spring fever sets in, and all I do is wander the yard looking for more signs of spring. It really makes for a long Feb-March!

Katob, I'm with you. I did the "Spring is coming!" dance yesterday - a month and a half earlier than usual. I'm eyeing all the shoots in my garden. Usually, my Tete-a-Tete are the first to come up, but in the back of that bed I have larger trumpet types and see buds on them instead. Everything is upside down this winter.

My pass along snowdrops are peeping out in the same bed as the Tete-a-Tete's. Not yet blooming, but a walk in DC which is always a week or two ahead of us showed snowdrops in that lovely phase where the buds look like little pearls hanging down.

We are having a warm spell heading this way. I am sure you will see many things blooming soon where you are, posierosie. Katob, will your part of PA getting this warmth too? I think your spring bulbs will be getting ready to wake up. I look forward to see photos from both of your spring gardens soon.

Thanks - I'll be certain to take pictures! I guess I should take out the pots from under the leaf piles and see if they are starting as well. For those at least I can take them inside if temperatures dip.

Just thought you might like to see the same little park I showed above with Snowdrops 6 weeks later. Snowdrops all gone but for foliage in the background.

Oh my! Just gets better and the foliage simply adds a lush element

Thank you so much Floral_uk for taking pics of this beautiful bed in your local park and sharing them with us! What a pleasure for sore eyes after digging out of 16" of snow. Must be such a treat to live so close to a lovely park that is well cared and well maintained. I just love the combination of colors presented here by the hellebores and daffodils. What is the short shrub with the white flowers between the yellow and white daffs?

Afaik the garden is maintained by the local inhabitants since it isn't a council park. I get the impression it is just a lucky mishmash of people's left over plants. The short 'shrub' with white flowers is a white flowered Vinca minor.

I think that top one could be Polar Bear subsumed under Nivalis!

I love snowdrops! Mine are finished blooming so I’m dividing them. Perfect time. They multiply very quickly so I divide mine every year and am starting to get a nice show.

Very pretty! I am running out of room. I need to naturalise some of them. I also have Wendy's Gold

Primrose Warburg!

Wow, so pretty! I too love clumps of snowdrops blooming. I hope you will get fast increase for your Wendy's Gold and Primrose Warburg.

I hope you will get fast increase for your Wendy's Gold and Primrose Warburg.

I hope so too as they cost me an arm and a leg.

Thank you for the kind comment!

Like irisgal, we have substitute Leucojum here in Texas, but the Leucojums are so large and vigorous with more flowers and foliage than the photos I see of Galanthus I'm not complaining.

Glad that you mentioned Leucojum. I have Leucojum Aestivums. I just love them. Only a few come up. I am in UK Essex. Will upload some photos later!