Alnwick Gardens have picked up a trick or two from Japan with this cherry orchard planting. The addition of swing seats does add another dimension as does the chicane route down the hillside.
Considering myself a vegetable grower I do love flowers too, particularly in the garden at home. There is nothing to lift the winter spirits than a splash of flowering activity outside your window.. Most are winter stalwarts but they still surprise:
Winter Flowering Cherry - Vertical view
Winter Flowering Cherry - Horizontal view
Here's one that is lighting up the darkest corner of the garden - on the northern side of an ivy clad fence:
Winter Jasmine - Jasminum nudiflorum
Jasminun nudiflorum 2
Other flowers are from stubborn plants which seem to flower throughout the year...
Euphorbia Hebe!
...or have hung on stubbornly through the winter and aren't going to succumb just yet.
Rudbeckia Autumn Colours still hanging on
Other bloggers have been showing off their Hellebores. Well mine are going to have to wait another year to flower. These were grown from home saved seed sown in 2017. Just as well as there is no sign of the parent plant this spring!
Hellebores !
I may be a bit previous to call it spring, but there are signs that the plants think it is just around the corner.
