{"id":6535,"date":"2011-03-01T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:27:10","slug":"the-snowdrop-cometh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=6535","title":{"rendered":"The Snowdrop Cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you paid $565.00 for a snowdrop bulb? Well, apparently, this is the price that an e-bay auction fetched for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/insight\/article\/937577--tiny-bulb-sprouts-an-ebay-frenzy\">Galanthus plicatus<\/a> &#8211; a very special (and expensive) cultivar of the more common Galanthus nivalis, which is pictured here. Follow the link for the whole story. Actually I wrote several blogs in succession on Snowdrops in my garden in March 2007. I even did some knitting with snowdrops in fair isle.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/snowdrops.1-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/snowdrops.1-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Snowdrops Toronto 2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/divineknits-infiknit.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/snuff-of-snowdrops.html\">A Snuff of Snowdrops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/divineknits-infiknit.blogspot.com\/2006_03_01_archive.html\">Snuffier Snowdrops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/divineknits-infiknit.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/snuffiest-of-snowdrops.html\">Snuffiest of Snowdrops <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snowdrops are the precious first flowers of Spring, at least here in Toronto and I watch for them to come up,&nbsp; as soon as the snow goes. I have several clumps in the garden &#8211; they really are a joy.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t actually have a lot to do with knitting except that the story of the outrageous price for the cultivated Snowdrop bulb reminded me of the classic stock market story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulip_mania\">tulip mania<\/a> in1637.&nbsp; Things went really &#8220;viral&#8221; then, even without the internet, and at the height of the market, tulip bulbs were selling&nbsp; for 10 times a labourer&#8217;s annual salary. Then the market &#8220;crashed.&#8221; People suddenly came to their senses and realized that no flower was worth that much. <\/p>\n<p>As these flower stories suggest, it should be fairly easy to get a lot of people to find you and pay a handsome price for your offerings. Please let me know if you do&#8230;.and how you did it.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still hoping that something as amazing as Snowdrops and Tulips happens to knitting!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you paid $565.00 for a snowdrop bulb? Well, apparently, this is the price that an e-bay auction fetched for Galanthus plicatus &#8211; a very special (and expensive) cultivar of the more common Galanthus nivalis, which is pictured here. Follow the link for the whole story. Actually I wrote several blogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}