Welcome *
Welcome to our small garden in Kent, South East England (Zone 8), where early spring brings a colourful visual flower feast and a nectar-rich feast for foraging bees.
Chapters *
0:00 Introduction
1:26 Spring Bulb Container Display
2:51 Early Crocus Tommasinianus
5:39 Hon. William Herbert
7:15 Crocus Crysanthus ‘Ladykiller’ & ‘Prins Claus’
8:36 Anemone Coronaria ‘Harmony Blue’
9:50 Scilla Messeniaca, Greek Squill
12:01 Muscari Armeniacum, Grape Hyacinth
13:21 Wild Dog Violet
15:34 Crocus ‘Yellow Mammoth’
16:16 Narcissus ‘Jetfire’
17:04 Hellebore ‘Pink Frost’
20:14 Snakes Head Fritillary Alba
20:36 Rijnveld's Early Sensation
21:38 Narcissus ‘Verger’
22:19 Narcissus Bulbicodium ‘Spoirot’
23:21 Erysimum ‘Leya White’
24:54 Female & Male Pheasant
25:07 ‘Wishing You Flowerful Times & Nature Soothed Minds’
References *
‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens (1867 Edition) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/... (Quote from opening lines of Chapter 54)
‘’Naming Plants in The Garden by Vita Sackville-West’ by Rebecca Nagel, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2015) Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 241– 263
‘William Herbert and his Scandinavian Poetry’ by W.F. Kirby Saga-Book (1911-1912) Volume 7, pages 206 – 210
Attributions *
Image and video copyright with Apple Pea Fern Sea, unless listed below. Thanks to all contributors. Images Unsplash, unless otherwise stated.
Vita Sackville-West (Modified)
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Elves
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Ominibus
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Crocus Poster (Modified)
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Trieste (Modified)
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Muzio Tommasini (Modified)
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Meadow View at Highclere Castle, Andy Galbraith
Golden Lab, Vincent van Zalinge
Highclere Castle
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Highclere Aerial
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Highclere Castle, Tim Alex
Architecture, Lilian Dibbern
Herbert’s Botanical Drawing
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Sunset, Jan Huber
Parliament
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Thor
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Fjord, Raimond Clavins
Grape Hyacinth, Tom Bradley
Narcissus & Grape Hyacinth, Yoksel Zok
Van Dyck Art
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Viola Odorata (Modified)
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Fritillary (Modified)
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Wheatear (Modified)
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