The Country Garden Year
All flowering times subject to seasonal conditions.
Spring at a glance March – April
Colours – blue, pink, cream, white, yellow, purple, emerging foliage, fresh greens
Garden flowers – (crocus), daffodils, narcissi, grape hyacinth, (tulips), (hyacinths)
Foliage and filler – forsythia, hawthorn, hazel, willow, alder, flowering currant, blackthorn, kerria, fruit blossom, periwinkle, dogwood, (grey poplar), (balsam poplar), oak, ash
Wild flowers – primroses, (cowslips), violets, celandines, snakes head fritillaries, (lily of the valley), (wood anenomes)
Other sales points this season: St David’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day, Easter, St George’s Day
Late spring/early summer at a glance May – June
Colours – blue, pink, cream, white, yellow, purple, fresh greens
Garden flowers – narcissi, (tulips), (hyacinths), (sweet william), (roses), (sweet peas), (peonies)
Foliage and filler – hawthorn, flowering currant, blackthorn, kerria, fruit blossom, periwinkle, dogwood, (grey poplar), (balsam poplar), oak, ash
Wild flowers – primroses, (cowslips), violets, celandines, snakes head fritillaries, (lily of the valley), (bluebells)
lilac, snowball bush, wild viburnum, flowering physocarpus, aquilega, bistort, irises, early alliums, anenomes, dutch iris orinthogalum forget-me-nots oriental poppies
Other sales points this season:
High summer July – August [link]
Autumn September – October [link]
Early winter November – December
Late winter January – February