Category: Five Favourites

Five Favourites | March 2026

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Again this month I’m joining Cathy from Words & Herbs with her monthly Five Favourites! Perhaps you would like to join in too.

It should have been easy to select five favourites for the month of March, but after a nasty winter and a very wet start to Spring, the garden has a limited photo-worthy selection. But the sturdy survivors have been glorious.

Narcissus ‘Tête-à-tête’. In pots, beds and borders throughout the garden, little Tête-à-tête is a miracle of nature. They withstand the winds and heavy rain that will break or bow down their larger cousins, and their bright sunny colour is a cheer-me-up tonic on the gloomiest of days.

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Five Favourites | February 2026

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I’m joining Cathy from Words & Herbs with her monthly Five Favourites!

While the garden has been fighting against our very cold, wet and windy winter, I’ve been busy with other things. I thought the garden might be ready to make its entrance on the regular meme I take part in – “Six on Saturday” hosted by Jim at Garden Ruminations. But the garden isn’t ready and at the moment I’m not quite ready either.

I’ve realised that I’m going to struggle to find 6 worthy subjects each week, and together with the others tasks I’m currently committed to, I thought that maybe I could better fit in with Cathy’s Five Favourites. Perhaps as spring and summer progress I’ll be able to participate in both.

Snowdrops. First up, plain and simple, are the snowdrops. Little clumps here and there, not yet spreading themselves around. But that should come in time. I hope.

Galanthus nivalis – the common snowdrop

Through the winter months garden has been dark, twiggy and moody. It’s still raining, but we’re now getting a few days sunshine here and there – and it’s prompting a few plants back onto the stage.

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