Our warmest welcome to all, at the start of the coldest season. We hope you enjoy a tour of the early winter highlights in our small English garden, with an unexpected queen bumblebee visitor. Despite the dormant trees and shrubs, with their inner energy suspended in time, the December garden still feels productive and alive. Wishing everyone in the festive season joyful times and nature-soothed minds.

ATTRIBUTIONS with our thanks ...
Our ‘Festive Wreath’ chapter includes the following UNSPLASH images:
‘Field’ Simon Godfrey
‘Cottage’ Lawrence Hookham
‘Oxford’ Iulia Topan
‘Holly branch’ Janine Meuche
‘Berry Cluster’ Annie Spratt
‘Fir Wreath’ Erwan Hesry
‘Lamp’ Josh Harrison
‘Garlands’ Matthias Kinsella
‘Red door’ Nathan Anderson
‘Firs and night sky’ Yun Xu
‘Cattle’ Veronica White
‘Sheep’ Illiya Vjestica
‘Post Box’ Reuben Rohard
WIKIPEDIA images:
‘Breeches’
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Livrustkammaren (The Royal Armoury) / Göran Schmidt / CC BY-SA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
‘Maid’
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Georges-Jacques Gatine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
‘Napping’
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Carl Jutz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

CHAPTERS
0:00 Winter Introduction
1:58 Cotinus Coggygria
2:16 Cornus Kousa
2:26 Hylotelephium (Sedum)
3:09 Early December Flowering plants
3:42 Queen Buff-Tailed Bumblebee
4:36 Melianthus major
5:15 Florist’s Cyclamen (persicum)
5:36 Hesperantha ‘Pink Princess’
5:49 Hesperantha ‘Major’
6:01 Snapdragons
6:17 Rose ‘Mary Delany’
6:55 Budleja ‘Bressingham Bountiful’
8:20 Festive Door Wreath
11:24 Agapanthus ‘Poppin Purple’
14:23 Scots Pine ‘Chantry Blue’
17:37 Winter Wonders & Thank you!