"It is more than three hundred years since Francis Bacon advocated that 'There ought to be gardens for all the months of the year,' proceeding to relegate to the Winter months 'things that be greene' only. Laurels and Privets and Euonymus have ceased to satisfy the modern gardener. He wants flowers too, and the smallest garden may boast its patches of Cyclamen, bringing it Spring in Autumn and Summer in the clouded months of English Winter."
Gardeners' Choice by Evelyn Dunbar and Charles Mahoney, from which that passage comes, has just been reprinted by Persephone Books, as has Greengates by R.C. Sherriff.
Cheerful pink Cyclamen with white marked leaves are currently brightening up the patch in front of the hedge.
Posted by: Spade & Dagger | 24 October 2015 at 09:29 AM
Cyclamen one of my favourites. Especially when they appear as the garden loses its summer colours. A splash of pink beneath the trees and I am transported back to Greece where they grow in the wild, prolifically.
Posted by: Fran H-B | 24 October 2015 at 05:59 PM