On Sunday, my good friends Katy and Alison and I set off for our first garden visit of the year to
Hodsock Priory, to look at the snowdrops. We have been visiting there for quite a number of years now. Above is the lovely gatehouse.
The woodland walk with the drifts of snowdrops is what Hodsock is known for and they are very beautiful. There were a lot of the double snowdrops this year.
This bit of woodland made me think of fairies or hobbits!
There are also a lot of cyclamen coum in their lovely shades of pink and white.
This was one of the larger snowdrops - S. Arnott.
Narcissus Cedric Morris was flowering away on this bank.
The spidery flowers of witch hazel looked vibrant against the blue sky (when it eventually appeared).
These trees looked as though they were going to be felled, but made a statuesque addition against the sky. They reminded me of the totem sculptures by Henry Moore which I saw at the
Yorkshire Sculpture Park back in 2008.
Here's a photo I took from the 2008 visit - can you see why the trees reminded me of these?
The bare trunks do look rather majestic.
More of Henry Moore's sculptures at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2008.
When the sun came out, it did make some rather nice shadows across the clumps of cyclamen.
Here's a snowdrop which Katy very kindly bought for me - I love the blob of green (no, I won't be turning into a galanthophile, but I did like this pattern). This one is Galanthus Elwesii and will be added to my garden soon. It was lovely to be out and about.
