Carpets of snowdrops, Galanthus nivalis, Crocus tommasinianus, and winter aconites, Eranthis hyemalis, naturalised in grass fill the winter garden with colour and form, while Christopher’s collection of old, rusted garden rollers add further interest. There are more than 130 different snowdrop cultivars dotted around the garden that Karin has collected hile many gardens sleep at this time of year, it is a rare pleasure to find one that is awakening from its slumbers, and shrugging off a frosty shroud to reveal shivering snowdrops, golden aconites and lustrous crocuses. Peeping through the silvered, tightly cropped grass that carpets sunlit glades and woodland alike, these midwinter marvels are a familiar sight to Karin and Christopher Proudfoot in their garden of The Old Rectory in Fawkham, Kent, but it was not always so. ‘The garden must originally have been
