The Giant Snowdrop Company at Hyde democratised the collecting of snowdrops. Brigadier Leonard Mathias and his wife Winifrede ran the company at Hyde Lodge, Chalford from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. Building on the legacy of other great Gloucestershire Galanthophiles (as snowdrop enthusiasts are known), the Mathiases and their gardener Herbert Ransom cultivated and popularised the growing of rare snowdrop varieties, including the ‘giant’ Galanthus S. Arnott. They won many an award for their work along the way.

This collections display features items from the Giant Snowdrop Company Archive.

Drop in and see the display, then look out for some of the varieties cultivated at Hyde that are now growing in the Museum’s Walled Garden.

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