Property News · February 5, 2022

Winter gardens: cyclamen and snowdrops bring Mediterranean joy to deepest Devon


An exposed field on a former dairy farm is now a late winter garden bursting with life – and the bees couldn’t be happierIn the low winter sunshine of Jo Hynes’s Devon garden, early bumblebees alight on snowdrops, crocuses and cyclamen. The temperature is still low, the days still short, but Hynes has nurtured a great carpet of early flowers, mingled together and stretched out beneath trees and shrubs, many of the shrubs winter-flowering too. She chose this style of planting partly to mimic the way they grow in the wild. “In the Caucasus you see these wonderful meadows of cyclamen and snowdrops, all mixed up together, great sheets of them,” she says.While the plants may be native to Turkey (which has the widest range of snowdrops), western Russia and the Mediterranean, Hynes’s garden, known as Higher Cherubeer, is very British. “We get a lot of rain here,” she says, “and the soil is acidic clay, so it stays particularly moist. And we are at the top of a hill – 150 metres above sea level in between Dartmoor and Exmoor.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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