Snowdrop Woods

The 70 acres of woodland making up a vast part of Cambo Estate are carpeted in snowdrops, snowflakes and aconites each February early March. The woodland paths were originally planned as a series of walks and it is therefore possible to follow the burn from the entrance to the estate to the sea following the Cambo burn on one side and returning on the other, all the while being able to savour the wonderful displays of these wonderful snowdrops.

The majority of the bulbs you will see are double snowdrops, which seem to multiply much quicker here, interspersed with ever-increasing areas of singles and the more unusual snowflake as well as vast yellow patches of the aconite.

Selected areas are dug up each year for sorting and dispatch to our many mail-order customers. Care is taken to ensure that each kind of bulb is kept quite separate during sorting so that Catherine is then able to allocate specific places for the replanting, thereby bulking up existing areas creating new areas either to suit her needs or to add the spectacular.

In addition to being home to our Snowdrops, we have 70 acres of natural woodland at Cambo,
mostly made up of beech, oak, sycamore and ash.