The Snowdrop Tour will be remembered for obviously the masses of different varieties of snowdrops we saw and other beautiful plants flowering at this time of year but also the fantastic amount of mistletoe seen on the leaf denuded trees.
The Picton Garden is beautiful at any time of year, but was especially glorious last weekend and featured on page 78 of February The Garden magazine. The article is entitled 'A Winter Kaleidoscope' and it certainly is glorious, a lot more than a lot of snowdrops. The garden is run by Helen Picton and Ross Barbour who have created a magical space.
I'm going to start with this snowdrop because I met Phil Cornish at Rodmarton Manor snowdrop display a few years ago. He was very helpful in identifying snowdrops for us, including one named after his wife who was wearing a snowdrop patterned scarf and a snowdrop badge.
I took this photo of the entrance to the gardens to show the trees in the background with masses of mistletoe on their branches
A general view of a bed with snowdrops
Above the bed with mistletoe in the trees as a backdrop
Above another white flowered Daphne very similar to the one at Ivy Croft
This combination of dark foliage and white bark looked really stunning
Difficult to see from the photo, but the beds are packed with different spring plants, as well as snowdrops there are several sorts of crocus, cyclamen coum, iris reticulata and chionodoxa
Avery well constructed bug hotel
I didn't realise that there are so many varieties of crocus. I'm keen to get some of the special ones for next year; this one might be Crocus tommasinianus
Another view of mistletoe in trees and below broken pots put to good use.
If you haven't been to The Picton Garden, it's well worth a trip whatever time of year you're wanting to look at gardens. They have a national collection of asters.
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