So our daughter Cat and her partner Brad are on The Falkland
Islands…that is bringing back so many memories. Memories of the Camp, the
wildlife and the vivid gardens full of sun loving annuals.
The Falkland Islands were sunny, cool and windy too of
course but I remember many, many sunny days.
The new 2014 catalogue cover that Cat has done is great, showing three wonderful Falkland icons , Rockhopper Penguins, Islander planes and the Falkland island slipper plant Calceolaria fothergillii.
Our trips to New Zealand continue too, and so our love
affair with the southern hemisphere goes on.
Back here On Loch Ness it has been an extraordinary mild
winter. We have been spared much of the rain and storms that have plagued the
south of England and Wales. It will be very interesting to see how things grow
away, with so little check to their growth.
The February garden at Abriachan is a delight of snowdrops, snowflakes
and the Daphne bholua sends a long trail of intoxicating scent along the
pathways. The evergreens are slick and healthy and the flower buds on the
Rhododendrons and Camellias are fat and full of promise, the soil is heaving
with bulbs emerging as we move the leaf fall aside.
Spring is on the move.Margaret
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