January Blooms at St Ethelwold’s


The garden of St Ethelwold’s House is open on most days and you would not expect there to be a lot of flowers on the last day of January.

The winter aconite has the unusual tactic of producing little ruffs of leaves and popping up yellow flowers in winter.  They may attract some insects who are out during the almost dead of winter. Winter aconite is one of the earliest flowers, and the plant’s spread mostly by tubers underground.

The one flower you might expect are the Snowdrops. They spread via bulb division. However, they may still be visited by insects on a warmer day.

There were also winter flowering irises against a south facing wall.

There were also some primroses but they looked in a bad mood, and did not want their picture taken.

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