Margot’s Winter Garden

A collection of early bloomers

Today we ’re off to Washington State to inflict with Margot Navarre .

I endure in Bellevue , Washington , and want to partake a few picture show of mywinter garden . I am a class - round home gardener and work part - prison term in estate gardens . I also walk frank and sell wine-coloured . I have find a way to get ante up for all the things I enjoy . I adore thesnowdrops , cyclamens , and springephemerals . My front garden is full of slight treasures ; we have awoodland gardenin the back of the planetary house that has twelvemonth - round interest and is home to many razz and native plant .

Snowdrops ( Galanthus , Zones 3–7 ) blooms in front of a rug ofCyclamenhederifolium(ivy - leaved cyclamen , Zones 5–9 ) . This hardy cyclamen flower in the fall and then shows off beautiful silver - and - green - patterned foliage all through the winter and springiness before go dormant for the summertime .

Cyclamencoum(winter cyclamen , zone 5–8 ) has beautiful leaves as well , and it blooms in late winter to other springtime . leave lay out from solid silver to complex patterns of silver and green , and blossom range from white to dark pink . Here , two plant life show off in acontainerso you could easily get up close to appreciate the detail of their foliation and peak .

Cyclamencoumis link up by a bunch of early crocus ( Crocustommasinianus , Zones 3–8 ) to make a colourful display in early spring .

Another cluster of crocus is showing off , with the smaller but abundant blooms ofCrocustommasinianusmixing with the big efflorescence ofCrocusvernus(Zones 3–8 ) . Both are indispensable bloom of anyearly springgarden as long as you may keep the squirrels and other rodents from banquet on their bulb .

In the garden in former spring , snowdrops and crocus are flowering , and clump of primroses ( Primulahybrids , Zones 3–7 ) are stretch up with flower buds about to burst into bloom .

wood anemone and cyclamen are backed up by another loyalist of the late - winter / early bound garden — hellebores(Helleborushybrids , Zones 4–9 ) .

Snowdrop lovers call for extra varieties with especially showy flowers or beautiful traffic pattern . This is the motley ‘ Big Eyes ’ ( Galanthus‘Big Eyes ’ , zone 3–7 ) , which is a hybrid selected for the orotund flowers and named for the picayune face the greenish pattern on the internal flower petal make .

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