The year’s colour scheme goes in phases, doesn’t it? Yellow first, with the daffs, then blues with small bulbs such as scillas and grape hyacinths and various early perennials, then on into pinks with tulips, early summer perennials and the whole rosy shebang. Each phase is another door into the year with its own kind of welcome.
I confess I am a sucker for those spring blues. Perhaps it’s because the perennials bring a bit more breadth of foliage than strappy-leaved daffs and snowdrops. There’s something just a tad more luxuriant about them.
If I could only have one it would have to be the navelwort Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’. Bit of a mouthful, I know. It’s one of those many plants that seems to
