Committed gardeners have a plentiful sprinkling of flowers to enjoy at the year's low ebb.
There are weird and wonderful crocuses and precursory daffs such as ‘Cedric Morris’ and ‘Rijnveld's Early Sensation’. There are the honey-scented mahonias and delicate-looking-buttough-as-old-boots Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’, with a delectable almond-like fragrance that wafts alluringly on January's mildest days.
At the other end of the scale, the
