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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

A touch of spring

As if the flower show, Daylight Savings and the weekend's balmy temperatures weren't enough of a clue that spring is on the way, here's something I found on a walk around my city neighborhood on Sunday. Snowdrops! Or more properly, Galanthus nivalis, the delicate white flowers with the wing-like petals that pop up every March. You can see vast stretches of these little beauties at places like Scott Arboretum, where I'm headed this Sunday for the gold medal lecture. But they're also fun in private pockets of the city and suburbs. This hasn't been a particularly long winter from a weather standpoint, but from every other vantage point, it's been a winter without end. (Even when spring comes, the economic winter will continue.) All this is made a little easier when we have snowdrops to enjoy.
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About Virginia A. Smith
Ginny Smith, a Philadelphia native, worked as a reporter at newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Ohio – with six short months at the end of the Bulletin tossed in – before returning to Philadelphia in 1985 to join the Inquirer. Her favorite beats here have included Center City, roving around Pennsylvania (and getting paid for it!) and alternative medicine. She’s also been City Editor and Pennsylvania Editor. Ginny has been happily writing – and learning - about gardening fulltime since 2006. She’s won two silver medals of achievement from the national Garden Writers Association and in 2011, Bartram’s Garden honored her with its Green Exemplar award for her stories about “the region’s deeply rooted horticultural history, cultural attractions and bountiful gardens.”
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