In an English Garden - in February (II)

We had a sprinkling of snow during February, so I took the opportunity to snap some of my beloved Cyclamen, in this case C. coum growing in a "woodland border" under an apple tree (idea because it does not shade the ground too much).

In that same border, Iris Katherine Hodgkin, a reticulata hybrid between the blue histrioides and pale yellow winogradowii. It is quite a vigorous plant but most years it gets attacked either by birds or by slugs. The flower opens and then the flower stem gets pecked or chewed so it falls over. This year I put some slug pellets down (sadly some of the falls had already been eaten) and put a little wire netting hat over it. A lovely plant.

I was given these double snowdrops, people like them but I actually prefer the single types.

Something slightly different from the common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis), this is Galanthus ikariae which is a more robust species. Again in the woodland border this has been slowly building up over the years.