I don't think there are many places in Hampshire you can find wild snowdrops, but I'm happy be told otherwise.
A number of the large houses / estates in Hampshire have them and join the National Garden Scheme's Snowdrop Festival.
As a boy we lived in a small village in north of the county it had some ancient woodland where we use to play known as the piggery in spring the whole floor was covered in celandine,wild garlic, bluebells, and a myriad of other flowers the scent was amazing but I don't remember snowdrops even then.
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Hodsocks Priory near Worksop has a lovely display in February. Not free, but at £3 for adults it is hardly going to break the bank. There is a walk around the woodland laid out. Dogs are not allowed. They also have some hellebores.
Hodsock priory is lovely but only open 9th to 17th Feb for this year's snowdrop season (usually it's the whole of February). It's only about half an hour from me so I'll be trying to get there for a visit if the weather is reasonable on a day that I'm not working.
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I'm wondering if the usual "snowdrop" events in February will be too late this year as many of my snowdrops are already flowering. I've heard Welford Park in Berkshire is stunning and the famous park near Cheltenham was fabulous when we visited a couple of years ago (sorry can't remember the name offhand). Lacock Abbey is another but of course you do have to pay. However there are usually lots of snowdrops on the road verges across the Cotswolds which are of course free to view.
Anyone in the Dundee/St Andrews area, Barnfield,Cambo,near St Andrews. Absolutely stunning,many many different varieties,and a lovely wander through the woodland to the sea. Fabulous!
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Don't forget your "Odd socks" Jenny. When we had a forum trip a few years ago, we all wore odd socks so we would recognise each other.
Unless we get an unseasonably warm day, my socks will be hidden under boots and long trousers!! Happy to try and arrange to meet if anyone else is going on the same day though - probably Monday 11th if nothing else gets in the way.
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A number of the large houses / estates in Hampshire have them and join the National Garden Scheme's Snowdrop Festival.
As a boy we lived in a small village in north of the county it had some ancient woodland where we use to play known as the piggery in spring the whole floor was covered in celandine,wild garlic, bluebells, and a myriad of other flowers the scent was amazing but I don't remember snowdrops even then.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Welford Park in Berkshire is stunning 😀. Went there a couple of years ago. Its where the bakeoff tent is in the summer too 🍰