Snowdrop Hope

Over the centuries, writers have spilled a lot of ink over a little flower—Galanthus nivalis or snowdrop.  Tennyson and Wordsworth have sung its praises in lines of verse.  Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard described the plant in his 1597 Herball, when galanthus was already old news.  It was most likely described by the great botanist and … Read more