Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza - a great success!

The Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza held at Goodnestone Park on Sunday 15 February 2009 was judged to be a great success.

Click on the thumbnails in the gallery below to see images taken at the event. Read more

After the snowdrops - celandines

by David Andrews

In about a month’s time, the snowdrop season will be drawing to a close - white blobs to some, to others their subtle variations a source of endless fascination. But a new season will then begin for the connoisseurs of the lesser celandine who eagerly inspect their seedlings Read more

Snowdrop mania - a very modern phenomenon

Snowdrop mania - healthy obsession or madness?

Leucoium bulbosum praecox minus - Timely flouring bulbous Violet

“The first of these bulbous Violets riseth out of the ground, with two small leaves flat and crested, of an overworne greene colour, betweene the which riseth up a small and tender stalke of two hands high; Read more

Southover Snowdrops on Valentine’s Day

David and Anke Way will be opening ‘Southover’,
their garden in Hunton, near Maidstone,
on Saturday 14 February, between 11.00am and 4.00pm.

There will be a wide range of snowdrops on display,
some bulbs for sale and refreshments.

Parking will be signed on the day.     map

Confessions of a snowdrop addict

by Sue Clayton

‘The secret of being happy is being obsessed by something’ - David Bellamy Read more

Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza

Sunday 15 February
Goodnestone Park Gardens
Wingham, near Canterbury map
11am to 4pm
Entrance £5.00            (HPS members £4.00)
Senior citizens £4.50           Children under 16 £1.00
*Members bringing display material before 10.30am - free

Event open to the public.

With a talk on hellebores and associated plants by
Tim Ingram at 12.30pm

This event has now become a much looked-forward-to and regular feature of our programme, Read more

Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza - Plant Sale

Sunday 15 February 2009
Goodnestone Park Gardens
Wingham, near Canterbury map
11am to 4pm
Entrance £5.00            (HPS members £4.00)
Senior citizens £4.50           Children under 16 £1.00
*Members bringing display material before 10.30am - free

Event open to the public.

There is a plant sale as part of the Snowdrop and Hellebore Extravaganza. Specialist nurseries will be selling unusual varieties of both snowdrops and hellebores as well as many other spring bulbs, shrubs and perennials. Read more