Country Notebook

introduced them from southern Europe almost 1,000 years ago.

The Snowdrop Valley park-andride scheme will be operating again this year from Saturday, February 9 to Sunday, February 24. But the valley will be open to walkers only for longer – from Saturday, February 2 until Sunday, February 24.

There is no real evidence that snowdrops are native to Britain and I, for one, was surprised to learn that