Good garden plants
It is not implied that plants excluded from this list are not good garden plants; far from it. Here we are referring to easy-going plants that are likely to succeed and increase in a wide range of situations and with little or no cosetting by the owner.
Our property extends to some five acres and many different varieties of snowdrops have been tried in many different places. More demanding sites such as the weedy bottom of young hedges and the rough goose grazing under the apple trees have proved to much for many varieties, which dwindle and need rescuing to better ground.
Several varieties, however, take these conditions in their stride; growing, flowering and increasing well, with no additional attention. These are what we describe as good garden plants. It is no suprise that the majority are well established old varieties whose robust constitution has probably played no small part in the fact that they are still with us.
Thes also tend to be the cheap and "easy" end of the snowdrop spectrum and are a good and relatively inexpensive place to start.
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