Narrow view

Bare branches encourage the narrow view, inviting the eye to enjoy single flowers and single berries. Our photographic artist caught this wonderful bloom of Jasminum nudifolium glistening in the sunlight the other day:

Week 2019/02 also provides singletons, like these delicate berries of Symphoricarpos x chenaultii. which we grow as cover next to a path:

This coralberry is less fulsome in its production than Symphoricarpos albus, the American snowberry, which is a favourite of municipal garden teams because it keeps out invasive brambles. Snowberry is a common planting in the streets hereabouts and in winter really does look like a flurry of snow falling:

What fragrance?

In our garden, the Lonicera is in fine flower in 2012/02. I am told this has a honeysuckle odour, but I can never smell it, because its flowering coincides with my hay fever.

Week 2012/02 features some remarkable fireworks in the next street: some Hamamelis is flowering in the next street (pictured January 13, 2012), and of course planting it in front of a red brick house was the perfect way to show it to be best advantage: