Spring is in the air as Snowdrop Fair returns to Hole Park
The country might be in the grip of winter but there's a hint of Spring on the horizon as the popular Snowdrop & Spring Plant Fair returns to Hole Park on Sunday 2 February 2025.
In the first event of this year's Plant Fair Roadshow, more than a dozen dedicated growers and nurseries from across the South East will be selling speciality snowdrops - the cheery heralds of Spring - hellebores, daphnes, aconites and other winter flowering plants.
The Plant Fair Roadshow organisation brings together some of the most knowledgeable specialist plant nursery men and women in the region, sharing their not-for-profit cooperation, pooling resources and friendships to provide reliable and unusual plants for keen gardeners.
The Snowdrop & Spring Plant Fair at Hole Park is open from 11am to 3pm. Tickets are available to prebook at £8 per Adult and £2.50 per child (Age 5-17). Well-behaved dogs are welcome as long as they are kept on a short lead.
Tickets include entry to the gardens: a rare opportunity to see their normally hidden structure, laid bare by winter, along with the very first signs of Spring. This includes not only several varieties of snowdrop but also bright yellow Wintersweet; varieties of Prunus and early flowering Camelias.
Hole Park's own gardening team will be on hand to answer gardening queries, and the Coach House Tea Room will be open for takeaway refreshments.
Booking is via the events page on the Hole Park website - www.holepark.com
Details of growers and nurseries attending the 2025 event can be found on the Roadshow website:
https://www.plant-fairs.co.uk/events/snowdrop-spring-fair-hole-park-garden/
Snowdrop snippets
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A collective noun for snowdrops is ‘a hope', literally symbolising the promise of Spring as they emerge to flower in the depths of winter
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Snowdrops can begin to appear in the first few weeks of the New Year and are the birth flower for those born in January
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Their official name is Galanthus and gardeners who love these plants are called Galanthophiles
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Snowdrops are not native to Britain; they were brought here from Europe and the Middle East as exotic specimens in the 16th century
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Snowdrops were first recorded in the wild in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire in 1778
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There are about 20 different species of snowdrop, the most common of which are Galanthus nivalis, Galanthus elwesii and Galanthus plicatus
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People lucky enough to have a snowdrop named after them are referred to as The Immortals