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Spring
This is a collection of cards which announce “spring is here!” From young gambolling lambs and the soft greens of newly emerged leaves to the beauty of early flowers and the gentle unfurling of life through over the landscape, each image is one of spring and of new life.
Bittersweet
Frost and blossom at Moat Farm, Salehurst.
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Common Spotted Orchid
Common spotted orchids happily growing in an old lawn which has been left to grow as a meadow.
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Cow Parsley
Ephemeral, light and delicate: cow parsley in the Great Dixter Peacock Garden contrasts with the dark, solid presence of the yew topiary.
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Double Picotee
A beautiful and delicate double picotee hellebore.
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February Snowdrops
Snowdrops in February catching a little spring light.
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Foxgloves
Foxgloves growing in a woodland clearing; pink spires piercing the green undergrowth.
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Fritillaries
Snake's head fritillaries naturalised in a damp meadow.
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Giant Fennel
The magnificent flowers of giant fennel, Ferula communis, contrasting with the fresh new leaves of Cotinus coggygria in the Peacock Garden at Great Dixter.
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Green Hellebore
A beautiful green hellebore flower..
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Ladybird Poppies
A tumult of poppies amongst Euphorbia, Aquilegia, Baptista and other May flowers, all joyfully jostling for position along the banks of the Barn Garden, Great Dixter.
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Long Barn Gardens
Snake's head fritillaries, bluebells and cowslips mingle beautifully in the meadows at Long Barn Gardens.
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Long Barn Gardens
Cowslips and snake's head fritillaries in the beautiful meadows at Long Barn Gardens.
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Radiance
Above the Peacock Garden, Great Dixter, the beautiful light of dawn illuminates and colours the clouds pink, shards of which seem to have fallen into the garden itself with Beth's poppy flowing in the half-light.
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The Page
Lupin 'The Page' rises through a wave of Smyrnium perfoliatum and cow parsley in the Long Border at Great Dixter.
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Woodland Bluebell
The beauty of bluebells flowering beneath a woodland canopy.
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Wren
A wren pauses, just for a moment, whilst nest building.
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Walk Among The Bluebells
Native bluebells line an ancient trackway under a canopy of hornbeam.
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Forget-Me-Not
An image can convey a thousand words and this forget-me-not card does just that. Charming and simple forget-me-not flowers against a deep green background, happy in the dappled sunshine of spring.
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Spring Green
Tulip 'Spring Green' growing alongside the fresh foliage of fern Dryopteris erythrosora, Great Dixter.
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Helleborus x hybridus
A singularly beautiful, white with red heart hellebore, bred by Elizabeth Strangman.
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Hello!
An inquisitive young lamb saying hello!
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Hellebore Magic
A truly wonderful selection of hellebore flowers.
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Tulip ‘Merlot’
Rich and opulent burgundy-red goblets of tulip 'Merlot' in the High Garden at Great Dixter.
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Spring Symphony
A beautiful double pink hellebore, bred by Elizabeth Strangman, growing in her garden through a carpet of Crocus tommasinianus. Quite, quite beautiful!
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Anemone nemorosa ‘Robinsoniana’
A beautiful low-growing wood anemone, 'Robinsoniana' produces delicate flowers of lavender-blue with quivering golden stamens at their centre.
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Double Trouble
This cheeky pair stood still just long enough for me to press the shutter before kicking their heels and gambolling away!
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Traditional Orchard In Spring
What is more quintessentially English than an old apple orchard in flower?! Captured early in the morning, with dew sparkling on the moss-covered tree trunks and on the rich tapestry of greens, this really is a beautiful image.
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St Mary The Virgin
St Mary's nestles amongst trees on a relatively high point so she can be seen from miles around. Taken in spring the greens in this photo fairly zing with vitality, highlighted by shafts of swiftly moving sunlight breaking between April clouds.
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- Made using FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council) paper, with logo on reverse
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Blossom Time On Moat Farm
Apple trees in an old orchard festooned with glorious pink and white blossom, their charm enhanced by the azure blue sky and soft white clouds above.
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