{"id":124480,"date":"2022-02-05T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/winter-gardens-cyclamen-and-snowdrops-bring-mediterranean-joy-to-deepest-devon\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T12:03:11","slug":"winter-gardens-cyclamen-and-snowdrops-bring-mediterranean-joy-to-deepest-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/winter-gardens-cyclamen-and-snowdrops-bring-mediterranean-joy-to-deepest-devon\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter gardens: cyclamen and snowdrops bring Mediterranean joy to deepest Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAn exposed field on a former dairy farm is now a late winter garden bursting with life \u2013 and the bees couldn\u2019t be happierIn the low winter sunshine of Jo Hynes\u2019s 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. \u201cIn the Caucasus you see these wonderful meadows of cyclamen and snowdrops, all mixed up together, great sheets of them,\u201d she says.While the plants may be native to Turkey (which has the widest range of snowdrops), western Russia and the Mediterranean, Hynes\u2019s garden, known as Higher Cherubeer, is very British. \u201cWe get a lot of rain here,\u201d she says, \u201cand the soil is acidic clay, so it stays particularly moist. And we are at the top of a hill \u2013 150 metres above sea level in between Dartmoor and Exmoor.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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