Snowdrops

Galanthus reginae olgae  in the Broad Border this week.

";but if anyone should have so perverted a taste as to desire the sight of a Snowdrop in Autumn, there is Galanthus olgae, which comes from Mount Taygetes, near Sparta, and flowers in October". (Sackville-West, V. 1968). So wrote Vita Sackville-West in 'GARDEN BOOK', twelve, monthly, chapters gleaned from her contributions to The Observer. The unofficial precursor to Mrs Verey's 'A Country Woman's Notes', published in 1989, and taken from her writing in Country Life.