The best Snowdrop Wood in Moggerhanger. Don't miss it

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Friday 5th March Minus 4 last night, minus 2 while I was walking .dog in the wood and the poor little snowdrops are looking a little frazzled by the cold. I'm not surprised, they are the most hardy plants, it's hardly been easy for them this year and they are still deternimedly glowing away. An example to us all. I think they will pick their little heads up later with this lovely sunshine, hope so.
A flock of beautiful dazzling white-topped, black underwing gulls in the field this morning, must have been about 40 of them winging around. Nice to watch some birds appear but you must wonder if they have their dates wrong - it's not warming up yet!
Just off to look them up. Bye

Monday 1st March Can't cope with that shiny bright thing in the sky today. What is it?
After the most atrocious weather, we have got a sparkling crystal clear day to enjoy. Pity most of you have gone back to work (snigger). The snowdrops are now fully open, they look really stunning. The downside, (like REALLY appreciating a lovely day BECAUSE of the horrible ones preceeding it) is that we probably only have another week of then looking good before they all die back again. BUT, with all the rain we seem to have thicker bunches of daffodils coming up than previous years, it won't be long before the aconites and anenome blanda come through and there are blubell tips EVERYWHERE. Checked the old BBC weather website and they promise a few good days of sun, so come along.
WWW wearing sunglasses signing off

Wednesday 24th February Thank goodness! It's warmed up, our snowdrops are all uncovered again and are shining beautifully and the bluebells are getting serious about sticking their leaves out of the mulch. ...I suppose I can't really complain about the hours of rain....

Tuesday 23rd February Our pretty little snowdrops are having to fight through the snow again! Thank goodness, it is supposed to be warming up tomorrow, might even get 9C HEATWAVE. Since I have seen come of the daffodil bunches with heads on them already, we might even be in the wierd position of having snowdrops and daffodils out together. Strange year.

Monday 16th February Snowdrops even more lovely this morning. So many more out now! With this cold continuing I think I can be fairly confident in saying that they will look really good for another couple of weeks. Daffodils coming up well and bluebell tips appearing eveywhere. Its all go in the wood (especially for the pesky moles in the front of the house, we won't have any grass left at their rate).

Wednesday 10th February Freezing this morning and snowing on me! I thought that the snowdrops looked pretty in the snow though so took a couple of pictures for you (above). I wish the dog was affected by weather, I know some won't come out if it is raining or too cold. Mine has such a thick coat she seems totally immune. NEVER says no to a walk.

Friday 5th February Weather horrible, garden wood absolutuely beautiful, snowdrops carpeting the wood for yet another year. For the next week or so they will only get better. NOW IS THE TIME TO VISIT.

Wednesday 3rd February Each day over freezing is bringing more and more snowdrops out. They are lifting their tiny delicate necks and raising their glow lamps to the sun. I can truely say now that garden wood is sprinkled with flowers.
I even saw daffodil stems coming through the leaf mould in bunches and early bluebell leaves, all waiting to take centre stage in the woodland pantomime.

Monday 1st February Absolutely clear day today,could see a high altitude aircraft glinting in the sun, a buzzard wheeling and crying over garden wood and Kimbolton Road water tower as sharply as etched glass. Though under freezing, the bright sun is bringing the frost off the snowdrops and their little heads are glowing in the oxygen rich air.

Sunday 31st January Bit of a cold snap again (-3C here) and the snowdrops were all saying 'Hang on. Keen to get going here, make your mind up. Do you want us to grow or not?' It's like someone pressed 'PAUSE' on the remote control.

Friday 29th January Starting to pop up all over the place, quite fun to see them all emerging

Monday 25th January Snowdrops appearing! They are still young and tentative, but if you plan a return visit to see them develop, I would say it IS worth haveing a mooch round our wood now. (You just need to do something about the dreadful weather.)

Friday 22nd January Little white blobs on the ends of the shoots all over the wood now (Not so appealing? - Come see the little white blobs?) There are a few bunches out at the end of the wood but most are still getting their act together.

Monday 18th January Snowdrop shoots coming up all over the place. They are really getting a shift on now. About time!
I stood and watched a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker jack hammering his way into a tree a few yards away from me. Times are really tough as all the woodpecker family (we have three/four varieties at Moggerhnager) are notoriously shy and normally fly off quick when someone is around. He was probably thanking me for all the nuts, seed and fat balls I put out in my garden.

One of the nice things about Moggerhanger Park is that we don't charge for entrance or car parking so you can come (like me) every day if you like and watch the little fellas grow. We don't even insist on you using our Tea Room (though we would be very pleased to see you and your money, of course, it's a very old house to keep going).

Friday 15th January The weather has been horrible. The whole of the park has been covered with snow which has looked extremely pretty but has been dreadful for our business.
Well the snow has almost gone (for the moment) though it shows how very impacted it has become as it has been over freezing and raining for the last two days and we still have snow around.
I was able to have a good look at the soil around the wood today and you can see the snowdrops! They are only tips at the moment so are definately going to be late.
I remember two years ago they were nearly over by our normal Snowdrop Weekend begining of Feb, which is why we stopped advertising and directed everyone to the website for news. Nature is always reliably unreliable.
No reason not to come for a nice meal though.

Friday 1st January HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my reader.
Looking carefully I can see (no snow, yipee) just the tips of some snowdrops appearing in the very sheltered places, at tree roots, deep in the leaf mould etc. With this cold spell blithely continuing I do not think that they will be early this year. I will keep you posted.