If you are anything like me you are itching to get in the
garden. As soon as the new year starts I pace the garden every day looking for
new growth. This year the unusually warm winter has produced quite a few
surprises. Some of our Hellebores and Eranthus (winter aconite) started flowering before
Christmas and the snowdrops and crocus are in full flower several weeks earlier than
normal.
Snowdrops in front of white-stemmed birch trees Betula jacquemontii Doorenbos |