Would you pay $550 for a single snowdrop bulb? What about $2,500? If you say yes, you may be exhibiting signs of what some people are calling galanthomania—an obsession with Galanthus, or snowdrops.

At half past nine last Monday night, a tiny single bulb of an unusual form of Galanthus – what most of us know as the snowdrop – was sold for a record £357 on eBay. Swathes of delicate white snowdrops ...

Even after bulb season ends, snowdrops can still be planted successfully ...