A Fresh Start
Amateur Gardening|January 6,2018

Winter flowers are uplifting for us and vital for the first bees of the year, says Val

Val Bourne
A Fresh Start

THERE’S a tradition in gardening of counting the number of flowers out on New Year’s Eve. Some are lingerers: the cosmos that refuses to give up; the salvia defying the elements; the soggy rose clinging to life. I salute their resilience but find them slightly annoying, because it’s fresh flowers I desire now – the ones that declare a new gardening year is upon us.

This story is from the January 6,2018 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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