Wet and cold today, I love going out into the garden to see what is new, the snowdrops don't seem to have been affected by the cold and the piddly bit of snowy stuff we had here. My poor hellebores still seem droopy, they may pick up if the temp rises. Last year at this time the garden looked very bare, but there are a few more evergreens this year, I decided to increase the winter garden with my bargin buys.
The shape of all the beds is well defined in the winter - could be all the manure- I must remember this autumn to give the grass a weed and feed, apparantly it's more important that the spring one. Will probably do both for an excellent lawn next year. Note - the base of the summerhouse is resting on the surface - hopefully m'spouse will survive without breaking yet another shoulder (he nearly went flying on a huge puddle of ice in town today) and be able to finish before the garden club come on their visit.
The Henry Moore statue (a present for t'spouse at Christmas)surrounded by helleborus niger(christmas rose) well in flower at the begining of December this year. This is placed at the end of the long grass avenue as an obligatory 'focal point', most people don't notice it until they're on top of it though.
A lovely group of Galanthus, don't know which one I relocated several from the river bank opposite the other year and they seem to be multiplying very well. At Bridgemere the other week I did buy a couple of posh ones and put them in the dolphin bed.
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