
After 4 years of tweaking, areas of the mossy copse garden are starting to fill in….Anemone nemorosa, A.blanda, Violets, Cyclamen hederifoilum, Tulipa tarda and London Pride amongst others. 3/04/12

A chance planting mix in the mossy copse, which we really like …Labradorean Violets, Anemone nemorosa and Chrysoplenium davidianum. Oh , and lots of moss! 5/04/12

Camellia ‘Waterlily’ and Skimmia japonica ‘Redruth’ which often seems to have flowers and vibrant red berries on the bush at the same time 4/04/12

A sharp frost produced very sad looking Tulipa ‘Flaming Purissima’, but being of a stern constitution, they had completely recovered by the next day. 7/04/12

One of our favourite later Narcissi. N.’Thalia’…. multiheaded, creamy white and a reliable good doer with us. 8/04/12

A planting mistake this year….. These N.’Thalia’ have been swamped by the lovely, but early flowering and vigorous White Honesty, Lunaria annua var. albiflora. Being biennial, it should be easy to correct this next year. 7/04/12

Another view of the warmest part of the garden during the day in spring, a South facing slope, with Tulipa ‘Little Beauty’, T.whittallii, and T. ‘Peppermint Stick’, Pulsatilla vulgaris and Rhododendron racemosum ‘Rock Rose’ 13/04/12

The first Meconopsis grandis flowers this year beneath the Cider Apple trees, earlier than ever before. 26/04/12

One of our most reliable Rhododendron cultivars. Always a mass of flowers. R.’Dora Amateis’ 26/04/12

At this time of the year we love the intermingling of Purple Bugle, Ajuga reptans, and London Pride, Saxigrage urbium. 26/04/12

A new Dicentra for us this year, rescued from Diana’s old garden. We think it is D.’Bacchanal’, and we love its vigour and rich ruby flowers. 26/04/12
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