Snowdrops signal spring, even when the view outdoors may not look spring-like. Often poking up through the snow, they’re among the earliest flowers to bloom. Snowdrops are perennials, perfect for ...

Snowdrops are commonly grown in rock gardens or naturalized in shady woodland settings.

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum gardeners and I are on the lookout each March for the first snowdrop flowers, the first perennial garden plant to bloom and a marker of the beginning of the growing ...

Snowdrops are the earliest of spring bulb flowers to bloom, often flowering through the snow. Credit: Peter aka anemoneproject/Flickr There aren't too many flowers that bloom before winter loosens its ...

Galanthus are showing up in my yard even though they usually don’t appear until sometime in March. Known by the common name of snowdrop, these flowers can bloom in winter when the weather is warm.

* What it is: A short, winter-hardy, super-early-blooming bulb that can send up its nodding, white, bell-shaped flowers as early as end of January some years. Even a covering of snow won't faze these.

A year ago this week Vince Meyer of the Dispatch wrote me a note saying, "I just saw on my nature calendar that the common snowdrop, "the first flower of spring" is due to bloom today. Unless it can ...

“I have been seeing a couple different small flowering plants recently and would like to know where I can buy them, as the early season color is great. One has yellow flowers and one has white flowers ...