Small English Garden March Tour with Dainty & Delightful Spring Flowers plus New Lavender Bed

Our spring flower theatre brings delight as crocus, narcissus, primrose and snake’s head fritillaries emerge to join the winter-blooming hellebores in a joyful floral display that uplifts our hearts and brings early foraging pollinators to the garden. Our new perennial wallflower Erysimum ‘Super Bowl Mauve’ attracts butterflies as soon as it arrives and we are hoping our newly-created flower bed, planted with Lavandula x intermedia ‘Phenomenal’, will be equally attractive to bees and butterflies this summer. Comma butterflies have been a particularly charming presence, so we thought they deserved their own little chapter, with some musings on their name. ATTRIBUTIONS WITH OUR THANKS * Unsplash images: Marivi Pazos https://unsplash.com/photos/closeup-p... Anastasiya Romanova https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and... https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and... Kat von Wood https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and... Dominik Scythe https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and... Pascal Debrunner https://unsplash.com/photos/white-flo... Aarón Blanco Tejedor https://unsplash.com/photos/green-gra... Evangelina Silina https://unsplash.com/photos/white-flo... WIKIPEDIA: Comma Butterfly Underwings https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Rorschach Test https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Hermann Rorschach (died 1922), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Welsh Sunset https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Paul Sandby, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Eastern Comma Undersides https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Kaldari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Question Mark Butterfly Undersides https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... John B., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons *. CHAPTERS * 0:00 Introduction & Welcome 3:00 Saxifraga ‘Apple Blossom’ 5:16 Erysimum ‘Super Bowl Mauve’ 6:01 Planting Cretan Terracotta Pots 6:52 Euonymous ‘Green Spire’ 8:35 Planting Lavender ‘Phenomenal’ 10:13 Dividing Aster x frikartii ‘Mönch’ 12:52 Salvia ‘So Cool Pale Blue’ 15:13 Spring in a Pot & Cherry Plum 17:32 Narcissus ‘Spoirot’ 18:34 Narcissus ‘Jetfire’ 18:53 Narcissus ‘Rijnveld's Early Sensation’ 19:25 Primula ‘Bucks Fizz’ 20:23 Greek Squill ‘Scilla Messeniaca’ 20:55 Tidy Successional Container 21:54 Wild Tulip, Tulipa Sylvestris 22:10 Allium ‘Globemaster’ 22:44 Beautiful Comma Butterfly 24:58 Nature's Sights & Sounds