18/07/2026
For once, the botanists were feeling poetic. This little flower is called Chionodoxa, which is Greek for Glory of the Snow, and it earned the name honestly: it blooms so early that it often pushes up through the last patches of melting snow.
Each star-shaped bloom is modest on its own, just 15 cm tall. But that's not how you plant them. Tuck a good handful of bulbs into the ground in autumn, leave them undisturbed, and they'll multiply and self-seed year after year until you have a proper carpet of blue under the bare trees, flowering while the rest of the garden is still asleep.
The bees will thank you too. Chionodoxa is one of the very first meals of the year for early pollinators, at a time when there's hardly anything else on the menu.
Plant in autumn, enjoy every February and March for years to come. Some of the best things in the garden are the ones you only have to do once.
Order chionodoxa bulbs on our website, shipping starts this September for Autumn planting.
