nline chat with gardening friends reveals signs of spring crossing the country in a wave from Cornwall to Northumberland. The first crocus, the first daffodil, the first camellia and so on, all shared cheerfully with just a hint of competition. Here in South Wales the Deanery Garden is at the precocious end of the spectrum. For me it feels like spring when not just a few but I grow its white-flowered Greek relation, the cultivar ‘Taigetos’. It is sterile and free flowering. I have increased it over the years by lifting and dividing clumps after flowering.
