Pure white modest flowers with a chaste beauty, that belies there tough nature.There they are each January, bravely emerging between the fallen leaves and ivy tendrils.
They are of course hardy, but they are not the fastest of bulbs to colonize a woodland or river bank.
Where you see drifts of snowdrops you are looking at decades or even centuries of growth.
Such plantings are some of the loveliest sights you will see.
Snowdrops are often found in burial grounds, and such plantings must be for hope and memory.
I have seen snowdrops in well kept town cemeteries and on wind blasted burial grounds full of old graves, and they always stir the heart.
Hence we have had Japanese Knotweed (thankfully, hopefully eradicated now) and raspberry canes, but the one intruder I think is wonderful is the SnowdropUndisturbed under the trees they have multiplied and now give a lovely show each year. I was there on Sunday, a lovely mild day with the feel of the approach of spring.