One of the first flowers to emerge from the winter gloom are the snowdrops which have been storing energy in their little bulbs to race ahead in the first glimpse of sun and get their flowers open for any hungry bees. They were introduced into Britain during Tudor times and over the 400 or so years we have been busy inventing amazing technology to send pictures of cute kittens, they have settled in and spread through seeds where they can find a bee that's not too sleepy and bulb division when the bees aren't buzzing.
When I've been out testing our walks over the last couple of years, I've seen some lovely displays of snowdrops which have brightened up my day and so I've started compiling a list of our walks with nice displays of snowdrops so others might enjoy them too.
Without winning a Nobel Prize in Quantum Mechanics, it's tricky to be everywhere in Cornwall at once, so the rate I can add to this single-handedly is a bit limited. However, there might just be a use (not involving cute pictures of kittens) for Social Media here...
Could you help us to make our list more comprehensive?
If you're doing any of our walks in February or early March, please tell us about any particularly impressive patches of snowdrops you see on the route and we'll add it to our list of snowdrop walks so other people can enjoy them too.
If you're on twitter then message or tweet to @iwalkc, or on facebook you can message us or post to our page. We'll keep the list of walks with nice displays of snowdrops updated using this information, so other walkers can enjoy them before they are over. If you pin snowdrop photos from the walks on Pinterest, you can send pins to us and we'll pin our favourites onto the boards for the walks.
