Snowdrops

by Trudi Doyle

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Snowdrops

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Trudi Doyle

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Painting - Watercolour

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Snowdrops are a potent symbol of the coming of Spring- however most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn.
Snowdrops can form impressive carpets of white in areas where they are native or have been naturalised. Several public Gardens which close during the winter season open specially during snowdrop season in February for visitors to admire the display. In the beautiful Altamont Gardens in Tullow, County Carlow Ireland -near where I live, they have a large collection of different varieties of Snowdrops and have guided tours of the Snowdrop beds in February.
POEM -".Snowdrop" by Ted Hughes
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse's dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.

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May 22nd, 2011

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