After last summer when we hit an all time high in the UK of 38.5c just down the road in the Cambridge botanic gardens, we’ve had a mild winter and now just endured the wettest February on record. Floods all over the place.
Today it finally feels like spring. The grass has had its first cut.
One of the benefits of a lack of hard frosts is that the spring blooms are blemish free and this part of the garden is looking super.
First up we have daffs, corydalis and hellebores and backed up by the fabulous shrubby daphne bhloua ‘Jacqueline Postil’. Imagine a quick growing daphne that can make ten to fifteen feet in height and covered in clusters of pinky flowers in early spring that exude the most amazing fragrance. You can smell it from across the garden.
Next we have Edgeworthia chrysantha, a shrub from China with a nice scent. Underneath are self sown hellebores.
David
Today it finally feels like spring. The grass has had its first cut.
One of the benefits of a lack of hard frosts is that the spring blooms are blemish free and this part of the garden is looking super.
First up we have daffs, corydalis and hellebores and backed up by the fabulous shrubby daphne bhloua ‘Jacqueline Postil’. Imagine a quick growing daphne that can make ten to fifteen feet in height and covered in clusters of pinky flowers in early spring that exude the most amazing fragrance. You can smell it from across the garden.
Next we have Edgeworthia chrysantha, a shrub from China with a nice scent. Underneath are self sown hellebores.
David