Samantha Willis Garden Design

Garden Inspiration for Easter

Spring brings us the odd warm day and with it of delicous scents when we walk around the garden and often from unsung heros.

These plants are our evergreen heros providing us colour throught the winter. Then in the Spring food for insects and lovely aromas.

Daphe aumarginata has small lovely pink flowers and a delicious perfumed scent. It is relatively easy to grow liking a sheltered spot. If you can plant it close to your house to enjoy the early Spring scent you’re in for a treat. The shrub grows to approx 1.5 tall by 1.5 wide.

The easiest daphne with the strongest, lily-like fragrance from blue-pink waxy flowers. One bush in afternoon sun will fragrance an entire area in late spring
Val Bourne – Garden Writer Thankyou Crosus for the quote and you can find them at Crocus too. Crocus

Osmanthus hetrophyllus is a large evergreen shrub with dark holly like leaves and tiny white flowers that have a heavently scent. I do have this one in my garden and enjoy picking the odd sprig for a vase.

Berberis darwinii can be a large shrub but is used as a hedging plant. It has tiny holly shaped dark green leaves, smaller that the Osmanthus and very prickly. It has clusters of tiny orange flowers. Be careful not to plant it near Spring flowering shrubs that can clash. Burncoose Nursery supplies this Burnoose Nursery

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