Only a few days until Christmas, and much as I love the winter silhouette of the garden and the glorious frosty scenes that we’ve had here recently, I came across this photo of a lush, green garden and it made me long for spring. It’s such a lovely, fresh vibrant combination and I thought you’d like to […]
A perfect little woodland plant – Hacquetia epipactis
Green flowers are quite unusual, though theses green petals are really bracts (modified leaves) surrounding the tiny, yellow flowers in the centre. The bright green colour in spring, attracts insects to the pollen laden flowers to ensure maximum distribution of the pollen. The colour then gradually fades to a duller green as less pollen is produced […]