First Garden Snowdrop of 2025

 Every January, I keep a lookout for the first snowdrop flower in the garden to open. This year it happened on 13th of the month.

Photo 1: First Garden Snowdrop of 2025 on 13th January

I now have 4 years of phenological data reporting on the first appearance of an open snowdrop flower in the garden. See here and here for 2023 & 2024 reports respectively. Figure 1 summarises the phenology data. There is no discernible trend or correlation with local weather/climate factors but the time series is far too short. For some reason, 2024 was very unusual.

Figure 1: Day of the Year When First Garden Snowdrop Flower Opens

As usual, I've uploaded my record to the Woodland Trust's Nature's Calendar phenology database.

Finally, this was Google's 'stylised' photo offering of the top-of-the-page photo ...

Photo 2: Stylised Photo by Google!