Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

When rain and cold weather stops for a day, I go out into the garden.  Just looking – Julie often has new inhabitants in the garden and some of those are surprising.   Grevillia is a species that hails from Australia. Some older TV Gardening Show watchers may remember Don Burk doing his hour-long shows every week – he loved Grevillia and so do I. In mid-winter, birds and pollinating winter insects will look for these flowers, filled with nectar.  White Magnolia are coming out right now. No pollinating going on, just plenty of off-white colours that lighten up your boring garden background.   Miscanthus chinensis, still waving in the wind. A froglet sitting quietly.  Gaura Butterfly Rose with an emerging kiwi.   “Just a Daffodil”, according to Julie – bright colours in winter.  These are Hamamelis (also known as Witch Hazels). Many of these wonderful plants have an excellent smell – our yellow variety (H x Arnold Promis) is probably the exception, not much smell at all,