An early evening picture of the "Big Pond" at Kibbenjelok



Mahonia lomarifolia, a useful architectural

plant for the Winter's garden

A rare form of Christmas Rose, called that by the homesick settlers, though it first brightens

our eyes in July, the middle of Winter. This Helleborus Orientalis is a double form that

has vivid green colouring amongst the ruffled white petals. In the last picture you see a Camellia in flower

behind the Helleborus



Two more types of Oriental Helleborus and H.Corsicus in picture3



More peafowl in the Birch [Betula] wood. At the time of writing, August 1997, the count

of peafowl is 22 green, white and blue cocks and hens. The birches are just becoming

fuzzy with their new leaves



Another beauty that flowers in the middle of Winter, [ Iris unguicularis, I

still call it stylosa , the above is so hard to spell and pronounce] that

will keep flowering for weeks if you keep it dead headed.



Euphorbia from the Canary Islands. I grew this from seed that a gardening

friend in New Zealand gave me. It was easy to start from the seeds and

now presents the garden with many babies which I find handy for filling in

spaces that need ground cover. The leaves are most attractive. The next

photo shows the witch hazel hamamelis "Arnold's Promise" that delights

the gardener's senses with the perfume and bright, spider flowers from

the middle of Winter

The early Rhododendron "Cornubia" is already in flower. We bought many one inch seedlings

ten years ago and they make lovely flashes of red in the late Winter garden and some

bushes are now 9 ft tall. A close up of the beautiful red flower heads of

Rh "Cornubia"

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