A bright sunny day! And mild too! We just had to spend it in the garden clearing away old leaves and flower stems of perennials, finishing pruning the climbing roses and as the grass was dry giving it a quick skim over with the mower. A bit of early Spring cleaning. As we worked our way around we sere periodically stopped in our tracks by the sight of colourful flowers.
A good clump of pale mauve crocus in the Rill Garden.
Hidden inside is a rich deep yellow.
A classic February pairing of snowdrops and winter aconite.
Primrose yellow hellebore.
Close up the hellbore shows hints of green.
Speckled pink hellebore.
Perfect cup shaped hellebore bloom.
Dark secrets inside a bud.
The delicate pale Ipheon.
Tiny flowers - powerful scent!
Perennial Wallflower "Bowles Mauve" - always in flower?
Cornus mas - acid yellow scented flowers.
Looking for the magic inside a Snowdrop!
Out of season Ribes speciosum - flowers like red droplets.
White and green - a most subtle hellebore.
Thanks for these beautiful pictures! And for the ideas they give me for planting more early spring flowers.
Dear Malc, Wow! Now I’m really homesick for spring in England! Love the hellebores, and the snowdrops and winter aconite pairing is adorable. Pamela
Thanks Pamela. Spring flowers are so special.
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Such eye pleasing flowers..Enough for transforming garden. Thanks