When do snowdrops bloom?

Low plants with milky white drooping flowers called snowdrops - the first heralds of the approaching spring. These small flowers with a characteristic delicate aroma are common in forests, mountains and meadows in many European countries, as well as in the Caucasus and Turkey. In scientific terminology, the name of this plant consists of Latinized Greek words that can literally be translated as “milk flower,” that is, it comes purely from the color of the flowers. As for the common term “snowdrop”, it is not difficult to guess associated with early flowering of the plant.

When snowdrops bloom? Their very name suggests that these flowers appear even before the last snow has melted. When exactly this happens depends mainly on the climate zone. So, white bells can appear in early spring, most often early March - early April, and at the beginning of winter, that is, in December-January (which is typical, naturally, for regions with a warm climate and mild winters).

Snowdrops are extremely attractive flowers. That is why shortly after the snowdrops bloom, they are cut off en masse and sent for sale (besides, the time of their flowering approximately coincides with the holiday of March 8). Fortunately, recently control over the destruction of these primroses has been tightened, so every year fewer and fewer plants go on sale.Perhaps, after some time, wonderful snowdrops, the first harbingers of spring, will nevertheless emerge from the threat of extinction.