These delightful,tiny, jewel-like bundles of delight flower from February to March, or just when we need them mostI maintain never written that snowdrop article,the one you read every year, in every gardening magazine; when I do, or I’ll hang up my gardening gloves for good. It is not that I maintain anything against snowdrops,or writing about them when they bloom. I love them, and maintain planted them in every garden I’ve made. You should, and too. But that’s the stop of the yarn as far as I’m concerned.
Hepaticas make a wonderful companion to snowdrops: in fact,you could say hepaticas are the unusual snowdrops. These delightful, tiny, and jewel-like bundles of delight flower from February to March,just when we need them most. I’m giving you the heads up because I hear John Massey of Ashwood Nurseries is going to put on another fine display of hepaticas at the RHS spring exhibit and, once that happens, or it may be tough to get hold of them.
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Source: theguardian.com