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Simply..winter scented....

9/3/2015

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We fulfilled a long-time ambition yesterday and took the Winter Walk in the gardens of Anglesey Abbey just outside Cambridge.
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There were carpets of snowdrops, aconites, crocus, hellebores and these ghostly little iris reticulata Kathleen Hodgkin.
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Massed plantings of coppiced willow, cornus, and corylus avellana contortua - I love the way the elegant catkins contrast with the twisting branches.
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A good garrya elliptica is a sight to behold, but not for long as once the tassles are over they are the dingiest looking things ever to be seen in a garden! They are still looking rather lovely here..
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What we really came to see was this stand of birch - betula Jacqumontii. It was a photograph of these which inspired us to plant ten of them in our own small garden.
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There are ten in this group! How lovely is that?

The other most striking thing was the strength of the scent in the air in the winter garden. Winter honeysuckle, mahonia, daphne, viburnum New Dawn, wintersweet, witch hazel and long hedges lining the paths, of sarcococca. It was astonishingly fragrant. We saw our first bumble bee of the season..

Well worth a winter visit if you get the chance.
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Penny L
9/3/2015 05:41:31 pm

Another beautiful post. I am enjoying your stay down south Freda!

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Freda
10/3/2015 05:52:06 am

So nice that you are enjoying it too Penny!

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rusty duck link
9/3/2015 07:45:14 pm

The birch are incredible. I am thinking of planting some on our slope, either side of the steps which lead up to the garage.

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Freda
10/3/2015 05:57:42 am

Go for it Jessica, without delay - they take 7 years to develop the white bark....

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Sarah link
10/3/2015 05:23:33 am

That's a beautiful spring walk! I share your love of a grouping of birches - we were so impressed with the ones in Helen Dillion's garden in Dublin. Sarah x

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Freda
10/3/2015 05:58:38 am

We saw those too - in her front garden? They were stunning.

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julia
10/3/2015 08:48:47 am

i am smiling to think that you are enjoying spring frangrance in the air, and flowers ...we, in west virginia, are just saying goodbye to the biggest snowfall of the winter. it arrived last thursday and has last till today. we have had above freezing weather since saturday, and now rain today has done it in...flowers and spring bumble bees are a long way off!

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Freda
11/3/2015 09:51:24 am

I will experience spring again at home as it hasn't quite arrived there yet! It will come, hang on in there Julia.

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