Cottage Garden Winter Photograph:
Crocus in the Snow

Picture Description

The features, winter colours and plants in bloom are -

• Cottage garden features: herbaceous flower bed, background - pond hillside flower border, framed on the left by the rose arch, lilac tree and farmhouse across the street, top frame formed by the butterfly bush, sun rose and honeysuckle leaves surrounding the letter box.
• Cottage gardening winter flowers and colours in the:
  • Foreground - in grey-green and bright green.
  • Flower bed - Crocus - starting from the bottom of the picture:
    • Snow Crocus (syn. Golden Crocus) - Crocus chrystanthus 'Cream Beauty' - pale buttercup-yellow petals with orange pollen heads. Usually flowers from mid-February, very hardy, spreads steadily through the years and produces multiple flowers off each corm syn. bulb.
      Best viewed on the very large photo - please follow the link above.
    • Early Crocus - Crocus tommasinianus - outer side of the petals pale lilac with slightly darker petal tips, inner petal very pale lilac with a white edge and centre. Petals tend to get floppy and droop after rain but still lovely.