It is rather ironic that on the day we enter winter (meteorologically speaking), I am typing up a post from LAST winter - all my efforts to keep up to date have fallen by the wayside. Now I have a fully working and quick laptop, I turn it on even less than I did my ridiculously slow pc! Hey ho ...
Back in February, the day after Amanda came back from New Zealand in fact, I headed off to north Norfolk to Chestnut Farm to visit a National Garden Scheme garden specialising in Galanthus (snowdrops). At the time, of course, I was fully immersed in my college course so was manically trying to gather as many Latin names of plants as I could for exam purposes.
Now I have booked the resit of the one exam I failed - due to re-take in February - I'm manically trying to remember everything I've forgotten over the summer! This is definitely a Daphne!
These gardens are fabulous - it's not a huge site but it's been so cleverly designed with lots of paths leading you through that you think it's much bigger. I love the circular paving slabs.
And this is an Acer griseum. Beautiful papery bark - useful for small gardens and gives seasonal interest through the year - must remember this one.
Spring is my favourite time in the garden - I love all the spring bulbs - Eranthis, Crocus, Galanthus - but mainly it's because there's so much hope, with everything bursting into bud, everything springing into life.
These Helleborus are absolutely beautiful - with papery thin petals, just gorgeous.
This is definitely a garden I will visit again, very inspiring.
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