Shaftesbury Snowdrop Festival
February 9th - 23rd 2025
Across 2 weeks we've got lots of snowdrop-related events for you and your family to enjoy. Including the world famous study day and 'Best in the West' snowdrop sale and our stunning evening lantern parade.
We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful hilltop town.
Nieteke Roeper
The Grande Dame of Texel snowdrops, Nieteke not only cultivates a beautiful snowdrop-filled garden and organises the Snowdrop Days in Texel: she writes and lectures on the history of Galanthus on Texel.
We are very pleased to announce our 2025 speakers and we are going Dutch!
For Study Day 2025 speakers we’ve gone to the magical snowdrop island of Texel. One of the Dutch Wadden Islands, Texel has been a Galanthus hot spot since the 1950s when the bulbs were planted in the island’s pine forests where each spring they create carpets of white blossom. Today, thousands of bulbs are grown for sale, and the island itself has become a destination for snowdrop lovers of all stripes.
Bram von Gronigen
Bram is the third generation in his family to cultivate Galanthus. His grandfather was one of the small scale growers cultivating snowdrops under trees after WW2.
The events calendar is now live and you can purchase tickets to the study day
Check back regularly to see which events have been added.
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