Why snowdrops remind us we should be getting set for spring

Irish Examiner columnist Peter Dowdall advises us what to do in the garden to prepare it for the season now unfolding 

Snowdrops in bloom.

It is natural to look for snowdrop bulbs in the autumn as that is the time to plant spring-flowering bulbs. 

However, l would advise against you planting such bulbs at that time of the year for, in my experience, they can come to nothing, or at least, not very much.