snowdrops

But is it certain that she will not call him back, as she called the snowdrops?

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Early comers such as snowdrops melt faster than a ice-lolly when it's warm.

The Guardian World News 2011

This old, good saying occurred to me when recently I saw snowdrops.

From "Snowdrops" by Robert Walser 2010

Cut daffodils, snowdrops and hellebores for late-winter flowers.

Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011

I have seen snowdrops; in gardens and on the cart of a peasant woman who was driving to market.

Commonplace 2010

This old, good saying occurred to me when recently I saw snowdrops.

Commonplace 2010

In our woods and forests, spring begins more quietly – the blades of snowdrops pushing through frozen ground in late January, followed by the star-shaped wood anemones, the dog violets, celandines and primroses, before the bluebells arrive in April, a haze of sky-coloured petals, yellow anthers and clear honey scent.

The power of spring flowers 2011

My husband is unmoved by the plight of my strawberry plants, but keen to get the snowdrops in.

Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009

So it's small wonder that the early spring flowers are barely showing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but in the southern half of the country spring is well under way – snowdrops, celandines, daffodils, crocuses and hazel catkins are coming into bloom and the leaf buds of elder trees starting to break open.

Plantwatch: a divided nation 2011

I have seen snowdrops; in gardens and on the cart of a peasant woman who was driving to market.

From "Snowdrops" by Robert Walser 2010