Q: I told my neighbor how nice it was to see her crocuses coming up. She told me they were actually snowdrops. I thought she was just using another name for crocuses, but I looked up the name “snowdrops,” and she was right. Her yard always looks nice, and I don’t want to compete, but I think it would be nice to have an early spring bloomer in my yard. Are they hard to grow and are there other early-blooming flowers that you could recommend?
A: I agree with you. There is not much that is cheerier than seeing flowers very early in the spring. As their name suggests, snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) are one of the first of all spring flowers to bloom. They bloom in February and March, sometimes pushing up through the snow. They are already blooming in many areas of the South.
