No Trouble at the Mill

We have very good friends who have restored the tower of a windmill that forms part of their property. By lucky chance they live just a couple of miles off our route home from Wales so we often call in. Sometimes we stay over, as on this occasion, and we are treated to good food, great company and a little luxury, nothing is too much trouble.

The garden is remarkable, sloping away from the mill and encompassing the old mill race, running down to a natural stream at the bottom. Heavy, wet clay, so different to our sandy soil at home, plants which I struggle with flourish here. For all that, I have chosen to show Fritillaria hermonis ssp amana, which I can grow, sited on a well drained bank, with the mill tower beyond.

We passed some of the remnant snowdrifts on our way out of Wales but it is milder here. Spring?