We are now coming to the part of the year I like the best - when it's not raining anyway. I like to see the true shapes of trees uncluttered by leaves, except the odd conifers, and I have a pair of Eucalyptuses. I don't mind leaves in the spring when they are new and fresh but I very rapidly tire of them and look forward to bare trees again; quite apart from the leaves blocking my water channels!
Gardening tip: Not that I'm any great shakes as a gardener, I'm good at cuttings but not at then planting them out, quite apart from my battle with rabbits who eat anything they can.
Outside your kitchen window plant a Viburnum Bodnantense Dawn. The leaves aren't anything special, but it starts flowering now; round bunches of pink tubular flowers and flowers all winter on bare branches. It also flowers off and on through the rest if the year which makes it a pain to know when to prune it. It's not that long lived, but if you prune out one in three branches every year you can keep it going. It smalls nice too.
If you have the room plant a Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea. Winter flowering cherry, small pale pink flowers, again on bare branches, and it will flower all winter, mine is just getting going.
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Those shrubs sound interesting - I'd never heard of them. I grew masses of Cosmos and dwarf Godetia from seed this year and they've only just died. They made good cut flowers too.
I also like the denuded trees as it improves our view downhill over Cardigan Bay. Mynytho is famous both for its mists and its views in clear weather. Our housename, Talfor, means 'high above the sea'.
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