Inverary, Tarrawingee

A weekend drawer rummage turned up small black-and-white proof photographs of my Scots-born gardener-grandmother and the garden she made.

Violet reign

The dowager duchess (of Grantham) would be pleased. Very pleased. This season her namesake reigns right across the garden.

American etymologist Douglas Harper says the word ‘hellebore’ is of uncertain origin. ‘Perhaps literally ‘plant eaten by fawns’.

Camellia do well in our hillside patch with its ancient mix of earth – what Beechworth vignerons call greywacke, mudstone and shale.

Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’ lights a grey lockdown day. Thanks be to gardening…

	Anne Campbell on Shared branches
	Bronwyn Hirons on Spring open gardens