Summer snowflake against azaleas
Leucojum aestivum
Summer Snowflake · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 20 April 2025
Summer Snowflake against a wall of blurred red azalea, one plant's quiet white against another's loud colour. Each hanging bell has six segments of equal length, tipped with a spot of green - the mark that separates a snowflake from a snowdrop, whose inner segments are shorter than the outer. Despite the name it flowers in April; the "summer" is relative to the Spring Snowflake, which is out in February. A European native of damp meadows, and a plant that does well in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's wetter beds.
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