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Article: Winter wonderland; Charlie Dimmock shows how the right flowers can brighten even the gloomiest day.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2004
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Byline: CHARLIE DIMMOCK
YOU wouldn't shut up your house for five months of the year, so why abandon the garden in winter?
Even though you aren't outside so much, you still see it from your windows, and cheery winter flowers make your view much less dull and drab.
Snowdrops are great naturalised in big carpets under trees and shrubs. Plant just a few and they soon spread if you leave them alone - they aren't a bulb that likes to be disturbed.
People often say their new snowdrops haven't flowered. It's usually because they bought dormant bulbs that had been out of the ground too long and dried out, so it takes them ages to get going ...