The garden is well-known for its snowdrop collection.  There are clumps of several hundred different varieties, demonstrating to visitors the diversity in size of flower, colour and shape of leaves, times of flowering and variation of green or yellow markings on these lovely flowers.  I think we appreciate them all the more for the fact that they flower in the darker months of the year.   I also grow many fine hellebores, mainly from Helen Ballard, Eric Smith, Will McLewin, R D Plants and Ashwoods Nurseries.  There are also lots of  winter-flowering shrubs, pulmonarias, cyclamen and primroses to examine and admire. 

The garden in open from 10.30 - 5 on the last 2 Sundays of the month, starting in February.  Our February and March openings are always popular with visitors and we all agree that we are very happy to be out in the garden again after the short dark days of  winter.

Many unusual snowdrops are offered for sale on our plant table on these open days.  I issued a snowdrop mail order list in 2007, and was rather taken aback at the response, and some varieties sold out immediately.  I won' t be doing mail order for the 2008 season, but it is something I may well consider doing again in 2009 or 10.   If you send a s.a.e. marked Snowdrop List, I will send a copy to you when  the next one is ready.