What to see in the garden on your visit:

The Heather Beds on the way to Home Wood are providing excellent displays of colour from both the flowers of the various heathers and foliage of the conifers.

From Home Wood main path to Top Pond look out for the very large flowering tree of Magnolia campbellii from the Himalayas with large pink flowers. Close by is a very good specimen of Rh. ‘Choremia’ with deep red flowers. At the bottom end of this walk Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ is putting on a good show of colour.

The Winter Garden on the way to the View Point has some interesting large leaved Rhododendrons and lots of the early flowering varieties beginning to flower. Look out for Rh. ‘Seta’, Rh. ‘Quaver’, Rh. scabrifolia the larger leaved Rh arboreum and red flowering Rh strigillosum.

The New Camellia Walk is beginning to look good with several varieties of Camellia now flowering at their best.

Several small leaved Pieris are flowering in Yard Wood from the Rock Garden to the American Garden.

Lots of Primroses are now flowering throughout the gardens but especially in Yard Wood above the Jubilee Pond.

Don’t miss out on a last chance to see the Lachenalia Exhibition which closes in the Five Arrows Gallery on Tuesday.

John Anderson
Head Gardener