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Snowdrop Mania
Last year a single snowdrop bulb was auctioned for more than 拢150. Kerry ten Kate looks into the passions roused in the murky underworld of our obsession with this tiny plant.
Last year a single snowdrop bulb was auctioned for more than 拢150. But even that figure is a small price to pay for the growing band of snowdrop collectors who are caught up in the contemporary equivalent of 17th-century Holland's tulip mania. Kerry ten Kate looks into the passions, the jealousies and the murky underworld of snowdrop mania with the enthusiasts who have a big obsession with a small plant.
Producer: Gwenan Pennant Jones.
Last on
Sun 9 Jan 2011
14:45
大象传媒 Radio 4
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- Sun 7 Mar 2010 14:45大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 9 Jan 2011 14:45大象传媒 Radio 4