Snowdrops at Lanhydrock

Snowdrops are one of my favourite flowers.  I love to see their clean white flowers peeping  through the bare earth.   They remind me of my childhood when each year we would go and pick them. This year has been so wet we knew it would not be possible to walk by the Rivers Yealm or Dart where we usually go to see snowdrops so we thought we would see if there were any at Lanhydrock.

As we walked from the car park down the drive to Lanhydrock House we noticed patches of snowdrops in amongst the trees to the right of the path.

We began by wandering around the gardens at Lanhydrock , but there were not many flowers out, just a few camelias.  From the higher garden we walked down towards the river through the Great Wood.  There were more camelias out along the path and some rhododendrums just breaking into flower and patches of snowdrops on the banks at the side of the path.

As we got nearer the River Fowey the path became very muddy.  A stream that fed the river had broken its banks and there was a lot of water flowing into the main river, which was flowing fast itself.  We did not see any snowdrops by the river but one solitary daffodil.


Once we had crossed the footbridge over the river and walked towards Respryn Bridge the path was dryer and we were able to to walk easily back up to Lanhydrock House and then the car park