Would you pay $550 for a single snowdrop bulb? What about $2,500? If you say yes, you may be exhibiting signs of what some people are calling galanthomania—an obsession with Galanthus, or snowdrops.

MY NOSE just inches above the muddy dirt, I found myself face to face with a clump of pearly white, honey-scented blossoms pushing out of the cold Scottish ground. I had taken the train through the ...

The snowdrop, or Galanthus, blooms when the world is still frozen. Gardeners enamored with the plant gather each year in Pennsylvania to celebrate its subtleties and endurance Snowdrops can push ...