Bulb displays
Our greenhouse bulb displays are put to shame by the planters on show at Audley End - also shown above.
We’ve downsized our daffs. Our big old King Alfred bulbs are too disruptive in the border as we wait for their strappy foliage to die back and free our perennials. These miniatures are easy to fit in among busy borders and the foliage isn’t a problem.
Our biggest patch of Pulmonaria Blue Ensign is beneath huge hydrangeas. It is already flowering in February and will continue for two months. Our picture doesn’t do justice to its blue brilliance.
This white woodland wonderland is the best display of wild snowdrops we’ve seen… and it’s not that well known.
The Greenhouse (in the Kitchen Garden)
This is the first winter for the greenhouse and we’ve used it to experience the garden even when the weather is cold and damp.
We have cups of coffee in there, enjoying our bulbs and watching the local kites and buzzards reconnoitring the garden at roof height.
Standout plant this month is the slim Iris Reticulata Pixie
Walsingham Abbey
‘Garden’ is stretching the description, but the snowdrop woods that roam east from the grounds of Walsingham Abbey are open this month. The profusion of snowdrops out-strip any bluebell wood you’ve ever visited. They crowd out the wood and wander down to the River Stiffkey, close to the famous pilgrimage site.
Wild spectacle: Aconites and Snowdrops and emerging daffs
Spoilt for choice. The snowdrops are colonising our White Garden area and aconites complement them in the parkland scene here. Daffodils emerge this month too.
