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My Garden Diary » snowdrops http://www.mygardendiary.com Gardening tips for beginners Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Queen of my winter garden: here comes the Snowdrop http://www.mygardendiary.com/2009/queen-of-my-winter-garden-here-comes-the-snowdrop/ http://www.mygardendiary.com/2009/queen-of-my-winter-garden-here-comes-the-snowdrop/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:49:03 +0000 The Gardener http://www.mygardendiary.com/?p=101 Today as I watch the falling snow I cannot help but contemplate the year gone by and realize that we have had a real winter. All the frost and snow will hopefully rid us of any pests or diseases that may linger in the garden. It’s nice to have the seasons back.

I have just noticed the first snowdrops in the garden with their white bell and I look forward to spring ahead. This short English poem says it all:

“One month is past, another is begun,

Since merry bells rang out the dying year;

And buds of rarest green began to peer,

As if impatient for a warmer sun;

And though the distant hills are bleak and dun,

The virgin snowdrop, like a lambent fire,

Pearces the cold earth with its green-streaked spires…”

H. Coleridge – from The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

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