Perthshire Native Snowdrops

Here's a poem in celebration of our UK garden worthy native - Galanthus nivalis.  A little flower bulb that you can depend on year on year to let us know that it won't be long until Spring. 

Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they

But hardier far, once more I see thee bend.

Thy forehead, as if fearful to offend,

Like an unbidden guest. Though day by day,

Storms, sallying from the mountain-tops, waylay

The rising sun, and on the plains descend;

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Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friend

Whose zeal outruns his promise! Blue-eyed May

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Shall soon behold this border thickly set

With bright jonquils, their odours lavishing

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On the soft west-wind and his frolic peers;

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget,

Chaste Snowdrop, venturous harbinger of Spring,

And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

 The Poetical Works of Wordsworth

For my phenology records - The native snowdrops along the lade started to bloom on the13th January 2012.

Interested in this topic? You might enjoy another article I’ve written called 

• Snowdrops - Natures Antifreeze

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