My mother had a circle of these around a live oak in our yard for years. She called them Snowdrops. Last Feb. 2019, while tending to her in sickness, I saw them blooming for the 1st time in years. I now live over an hour away so don't usually visit in Feb. because it's a cold and wet time of year. Long story short, another Louisiana gardener I trade with every couple of years sent me 4 bulbs she called Summer Snowflakes in Feb. 2018. I put them in a pot so I could monitor when they bloom. Because they were moved, it's taken two years, but like my Mother's they are blooming in Feb. and I now know they are Snowflakes, not Snowdrops. They will always remind me of my Mother who passed away in March and of the place where I grew up.

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The Summer Snowflake has been most gratifying in my Central Texas garden. I never water it and just give it some balanced organic fertilizer in December. It starts pushing up green stalks in mid January and now, mid February, it's pushing out dainty blooms. After five years on the sunny hillside, it's slowly spreading out. I won't do anything to the plants after they bloom and they will then disappear until next winter. No pests seem to bother it and it provides some nice interest at a time of year when things are somewhat bleak. The blooms will probably be around until sometime in March.

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