Who would pay £150 for a single snowdrop?
Actually, quite a few people. Yvonne Thomas discovers that Britain is in the grip of snowdrop mania A single snowdrop bulb was auctioned for more than £150 last winter, at one of the many snowdrop lunches and galas that take place at this time of year. When you consider that you can buy a clump of 50 snowdrops in the green for about £15, it seems quite a price. But to the likes of Joe Sharman, it is nothing to raise an eyebrow at. He is a galanthophile – and all around us, apparently, is raging the English equivalent of 17th-century Holland’s tulip mania.
