Pink and blue hyacinths, red tulips and yellow daffodils at Wisley.
Primula spills sunshine over the ground.
odd cloudburst admiring the endurance of our young punters who seem to take the cold water in their stride — er, stroke. Tis time of year, there are lessons to be learned about how English gardeners use woody plants in the landscape: how they’ve trained sturdy wisteria vines to craft canopies and cover arbours, how they’ve interlaced branches to create walls and tree hedges, and how by pollarding and pruning they can alter the shape of a tree, while extending its life at the same time. Tere are flowers, too. Nodding blossoms of yellow and or-
Lovely skunkweed — looks great but smells skunky.
ange fritillaria point shyly earthward. Primulas light up the ground in their many jewel-like colours. Te stately spurge, Euphorbia characias spp. Wulfenii, is everywhere, flaunting lemon-yellow flower umbels on structural, three-foot stems. Te gigantic Gunnera has sent its magnificent cone-shaped blossom skyward even before the enormous leaves have fully unfurled. Bluebells wink, cobalt blue, from the woods and shady areas.
Bluebells of various kinds and shades of blue are everywhere in spring.
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Evergreen Spurge.
The giant flower of the Gunnera plant. We grow them in Manitoba but they don’t get nearly as large.
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