About Us and Our Products
Snowdrop Farm has two distinct but intertwined sides that keep us very busy. We are an online garden center and we are passionate about growing quality Passion Flower plants. In fact, we have a collection of almost 50 different varieties.
Snowdrop Farm is also a working 5 acre homestead. It has a small orchard, huge garden and is home to chickens, geese, and a small flock of sheep. So while we mainly spend our time in the greenhouse working with our passion flowers, we also sell lambs and sheep milk products. Milking sheep and making our wonderful felted soaps takes up the slow winter season when there isn’t much going on in the greenhouses.
About Our Plants
Passion flowers are plants of the Passiflora species grown for their spectacular, tropical looking flowers. Some varieties are also grown for their edible passion fruit.
Passiflora vines come in almost any shape, size, and color boasting flowers so incredible you might think they are fake. We believe that these commercially unavailable gems are greatly under utilized in landscapes. They are fast growing, versatile plants and are an excellent choice for covering walls and fences in a single season. They have a place in every garden be it a rooftop container garden, a vegetable garden, or covering the garage wall in a sprawling estate. They will even make an excellent groundcover if not given a trellis to climb on.
Because these plants are so hard to find locally we have made it our purpose to grow and ship these plants directly to your door. Our goal is not to be a collector of every species, but to select plants that have good landscape and container characteristics so that they perform well for you.
Our Greenhouse Facilities
We currently have a small greenhouse facility consisting of a 14 x 20 propagation house and a 14 x 72 greenhouse for all our plants. The greenhouses are located on a 5 acre mini-farm on the rural coast of Virginia. Between the farm and the greenhouses there is always something going on around here!
About the Owner
Snowdrop Farm is owned by Victoria Lovecraft. When she isn’t working in the greenhouses (which isn’t often!), she is caring for her vegetable garden, her fruit tree orchard, and managing her farm full of animals.
Victoria has a bachelors degree in both Horticulture and Animal Science from Cornell University. In addition to her degree, she has over 10 years of experience working in various aspects of the horticulture industry. She has worked for 2 different landscaping companies. Additionally she worked for a retail greenhouse and a wholesale nursery. This has allowed her to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of the industry.
Victoria loves all things plants, but has a particular interest in growing vines. This interest was inspired by a Belotii passion flower obtained as a child. Over the years, that vine grew into a significant collection of Passiflora plants that we now have the opportunity to make available to you.
She also loves all things animal. She grew up in Vermont and spent her summers riding horses. After college she sold her horse and got out of keeping animals for several years. However, she missed having farm animals around, so in 2021 she bought a small flock of sheep. Snowdrop Farm is currently home to a flock of about 20 Katahdin Sheep. Victoria has a breeding program working towards a ‘hairy’ dairy sheep.
Snowdrop Farm History
Snowdrop Farm was born out of a life-long passion for farming and growing plants. In 2017 Victoria moved from Pennsylvania and bought a soybean field in Virginia. Over the course of the next year she built a house, set up greenhouses, and started building the framework of a farm and business. Needless to say its a work in progress!
In the future years we will be expanding to other plants and varieties. Our goal is to not only grow plant varieties that have stunning flowers to wow your neighbors with, but to grow plants that have excellent landscape characteristics as well.
We welcome your feedback, and are always expanding our selection. If there is something we aren’t growing, that you think we should be growing, or something you think we could be doing better, or something you think we are doing well. Let us know.