Tag: Sarcococca confusa

Roses aside, back to Spring where the garden is colouring up with Camellias, Iris, Daphne and Anemone … and more of course

Categories Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bulbs, Camellias, container gardening, Grasses, herbaceous, Plants for a shady garden?, Spring Garden, Winter Garden, Woodland GardenLeave a Comment on Roses aside, back to Spring where the garden is colouring up with Camellias, Iris, Daphne and Anemone … and more of course

A gallery only - well I say 'only' - there is much to delight and much that is both beautiful and welcome in the garden. More and ever more colour to lift the spirits with so much more to come - and so I caution - take a pause, enjoy the season, these moments -…

Continue reading ➞ Roses aside, back to Spring where the garden is colouring up with Camellias, Iris, Daphne and Anemone … and more of course

A roundup of recent tweetery – snowdrops & camellias, hellebores of course

Categories Camellias, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, Hellebore, Winter Garden, Woodland Garden1 Comment on A roundup of recent tweetery – snowdrops & camellias, hellebores of course

Galanthus Warburg Primrose (above) and Galanthus Bertram Anderson (below) Galanthus elwesii var elwesii Maidwell L (above) and Galanthus nivalis Magnet (below) Galanthus plicatus Colossus (above and below) 'Tis Snowdrop time, as with much else, early this year and so I thought I'd get myself into gear with a just a select selection. More, obviously, to…

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If you go down to the woods today (reprise) – Scented Witch Hazels, Daphne & Sarcococca, Edgeworthia too at RHS Wisley

Categories Architectural Plants, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, General comment, Open to the public, Plants for a shady garden?, RHS WIsley, Winter Garden2 Comments on If you go down to the woods today (reprise) – Scented Witch Hazels, Daphne & Sarcococca, Edgeworthia too at RHS Wisley

You are met, as soon as you walk into the gardens at RHS Wisley, by the seductive scent of Sarcococca, the Winter Box, in this case with pure white threadlike flowers on arching stems, set against deep green leaves. It is a fragrance that carries on the wind, a siren-call to the few pollinators out…

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