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19 April 2010
They are long-delayed, but all the more welcome for it, and almost all flowering together. This is our ‘spring garden’, close to the back door, where we leave bulbs in long grass for half the year. The crocuses and cyclamen have come and gone. The primroses are mostly hull-down in the grass; now (April) is the turn of February Gold and February Silver (and several other daffs whose names escape me.) Fritillaries have just revealed themselves.
I have mixed feelings about the pink cherry in the middle. It is Collingwood Ingram’s creation, ‘Kursar’, a hybrid of Prunus Sargentii with earlier, smaller flowers. If only he had been able to produce a cream-, or even a blue-flowering tree to go with daffodils.
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