Our second visit to the show gardens at Bridgemere Garden Centre looked set to be very different to our January visit. We followed, more or less, the same route as we did in January and once again we were on the look out for signs of winter and perhaps a few signs of spring.
We made a slight deviation from the pathway to look at the impressive brick and stone built Folly.
Returning to our original routeway, we enjoyed the rich sweet scent of Daphnes and low spring plantings. Below the photos show Daphne bholua ‘Spring Beauty’, the blossom of a prunus and the spring flowers of pulmonaria and snowdrops covering the ground below.
Nearby beneath a tree the ground in between its exposed roots was covered by scillas, white with the palest blue hue.
There were two more daphnes nearby for us to enjoy, Daphne bholua ‘Jaqueline Postill’ and Daphne bhuloa ‘Princess Perfume’, which had attracted a ladybird. The sun had brought out quite a few ladybirds.
In the Winter Garden patches of colour were glowing in the sun.
We returned to the circle of lawn beautifully edged by fan-trained apple trees underplanted with spring bulbs such as Narcissus ‘Tete-a-Tete’ and chionodoxa.
From a gateway we had a good view of the nursery where most of the plants sold here and other Blue Diamond garden centre are raised.
As we made our way back to the entrance we wandered around beds on the look out for more winter interest. But there were some signs of spring too, perennials showing fresh leaf shoots, roses shooting new leaves and catkins fluffing up.
I shall conclude with two wider shots taken from the top of a short flight of steps.
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2 replies on “Bridgemere Show Gardens – February Visit”
Oh , spring. Don’t we need it after the rains. These small flowers so welcoming.
Beautiful spring post.