“Snowdrops: theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration… in the very teeth of winter.” So wrote Louise Beebe Wilder, and she was right – these dainty bell-like blooms feel like a beacon of hope in the winter; proof that the world is turning back to the sun once more. They tend to fade away as the weather warms up, though, so now is the time to wonder what to do with snowdrops after flowering.
Considered by many to be the first sign that spring is coming, it's little wonder that gardeners up and down the country love to fill their garden with drifts of these low-maintenance flowers. Snowdrops are well-suited to almost any garden, so long as you can find them a partly-shaded position with moist, well-draining soil and get them in the ground by late spring.
