Sunny February saw the Garden come back to life after the darkness of Winter and the big team effort of planting thousands of bulbs last autumn, really started to show.
Sweet little Snowdrops have been giving way to beautiful Crocus - we have been planting the variety ‘Ruby Giant’ here in Dalston for the last couple of years. Crocus are definitely best planted en masse; we plant them under the birch trees, throughout our ‘Bee Bed’, and this year in shallow clay-pots raised up on planters to really put them on show. Not only do they look beautiful - we love seeing Crocus open their ‘faces’ to the sun - but they offer early nectar for bees. Win win!
Other flowers looking beautiful here at the Curve Garden right now include little pink Primulas which were kindly donated to us from a garden in Wales, and Hellebores, which have been looking radiant in the sun. The first of our Narcissus ‘Tete a Tete’ started flowering early too, so there are lots around all over the Garden in pots and tins, just in time for St David’s Day and the meteorological first day of Spring!
The Garden is open from 11am every day in March, so do come by soon and enjoy Spring in all it’s green abundance.
Thanks to Rosemary Kirton for her ‘Crocus & Bark’ photo and to photographer Sandra Keating for all other photos, recording the Garden in February so beautifully. All photographs are copyright of Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.
