What's In Bloom? August 2026
This winter has been so mild and manageable. It's actually been lovely which I'm not sure I've said before about a Tasmanian winter. The garden is green and happy. By my best guess, the garden is 2 to 4 weeks ahead of flowering schedule this year. After watching the spring and summer that the UK and Europe have had, I'm not entirely sure this is a good thing, but we'll wait and see. The loveliest thing about this time of year is watching the garden 'wake up'. It reminds me so much of living in Edinburgh, where the winters were certainly harsher and bleaker than here and seeing the bulbs emerge to announce that the seasons are changing, the warm is coming! One of the first to emerge is Hellebore, known as the Winter Rose. I love these wonderful flowers. Dianthus has been blooming the whole year! These gorgous little things are very appropriately named Grape Hyacinth or Muscari. These have multiplied and multiplied and I'd be quite happy if they took over...