One of the very first flowers of spring, snowdrops are arguably one of the most fascinating flowers.
Snowdrops actually contain a naturally occurring antifreeze which enables them to recover seemingly effortlessly (but as we well know, nothing in nature is effortless) as temperatures rise and once upon a time those natural antifreeze properties were utilised to de-ice tanks during the war.
As well as all that, Their flowers hang in that beautifully bashful way not because they are in actual fact shy, but because their pollen only attracts insects when dry so in the wetter months between January and April, they maximise their potential for pollination by hanging their flowers like little droplets of dew in the morning light.
And another fun fact is I ignored these beautiful flowers that grew in the bucket loads in our woodland for many years, because I never bothered to actually look at the world so if I can give you any piece of advice for when you wake up in the morning tomorrow, it’s get outside and notice the beauty that is already, all around you 🌱