Crowe Garden Design - Bespoke Garden Design In Essex

Hot topic of the moment, the winter, shock horror, call out the guard, the mercury is low. Presently the climate change soothsayers are sitting in a corner scratching heads and ploughing through their charts and calculations. In another room the Flat World brigade stand stunned at the realisation they may have a point. 2010, the 'Year of Change', just how much change is afoot?

 

Well with winter has come snow, snow that lays, freezes and melts becoming a pain. In the garden there can always be snow and not just for winter; plants and they are far from a pain. The Snowdrop (Galanthus) for late winter and the Snowflake (Leucojum) to be found in Winter, Spring and Summer, the Snowdrop tree (Halesia) and Snowberry (Symphoricarpos).

 

There is a Snowball bush (Viburnum macrocephalum), Snowball tree (Viburnum opulus) and Snow bush (Breynia disticha). Snowbells can be Alpine (Soldanella alpina), Least (Soldanella minima) and Fragrant (Styrax obassia). Snowbell 'brothers in arms' are the American (Styrax americanus) and Japanese (Styrax japonicus).

 

There is Snow in the Mountain (Euphorbia marginata), Snow in Summer (Cerastium tomentosum / Ozothamnus thyrsoideus) even Snow in the Jungle (Porana paniculata). So there's Snow business like Snow Buiness when it comes to plants for the topic of the moment. Matron, pass the tablets ...