Property News · January 23, 2016

Alys Fowler: hepaticas are the new snowdrops. Yes, really


These delightful, tiny, jewel-like bundles of joy flower from February to March, just when we need them mostI have never written that snowdrop article, the one you read every year, in every gardening magazine; when I do, I’ll hang up my gardening gloves for good. It is not that I have anything against snowdrops, or writing about them when they bloom. I love them, and have planted them in every garden I’ve made. You should, too. But that’s the end of the story as far as I’m concerned.Hepaticas make a wonderful companion to snowdrops: in fact, you could say hepaticas are the new snowdrops. These delightful, tiny, jewel-like bundles of joy flower from February to March, just when we need them most. I’m giving you the heads up because I hear John Massey of Ashwood Nurseries is going to put on another fine display of hepaticas at the RHS spring show and, once that happens, it may be hard to get hold of them. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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