Fritillaria meleagris has now established itself nicely in the border and is showing some beautiful variegation! #fritillaria #snakesheadfritillary #spring #springplanting #gardening #garden #horticulture #gardener #gardendesign

Tulip 'Kung Fu' surrounded by a bed of Myosotis sylvatica. One bulb has produced some lovely variegation! I am eagerly awaiting more tulips to flower in the garden.

A beautiful cultivar 'Spring Green' looks great planted amongst ferns and other greenery!

Recently planted Helleborus foetidus ‘Gold Bullion’ with Allium 'Purple Rain'. Ashwood Nurseries

Finally my tree fern is coming alive after being attacked by squirrels! 🐿️ #treefern #fern #shade

This baffles me, why do people have to litter! 🤬😡😤

Morning Twitter! I have just achieved a 1000 followers 🎉 Thanks for following everyone! 😊 Here's a photo of my own garden taken last week 🌴🌺🌵☀️😎

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Just a year after planting it out of it's 2lt pot, Tetrapanax 'Rex' is a beast! Trainee Matthew Padbury for scale. In the Fern Garden Birmingham Botanical Gardens UK

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At this time of year the sun shines through the bare trees and highlights the seed heads of Calamagrostis brachytricha and in the background 'Karl Foerster' ☀️

All photos taken recently Birmingham Botanical Gardens UK by Chris Howell

For anybody wanting an update on our 1874 bandstand restoration... It's a dramatic transformation. The colour choice is the result of painstaking investigations to find the early colours used by the Victorians. The restoration is due to be completed in early February.

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Pallida' providing colour to the garden on a winter's day 🌨️❄️

Echiums in the grass garden are reaching for the sky. Matthew Padbury for scale.

I'm sure this sasa was planted with good intention but it has choked all bar the redwood. Colleague Lewis is renovating the huge Japanese border and with help from Liz and Matthew Padbury we've spent 2 gruelling days clearing this area. Now for 12 months of keeping it weed free.

The Winter border in the sunshine yesterday. ☀️ There is plenty to see in the garden at this time of year. Many people have the misconception that there is nothing to see in winter! Birmingham Botanical Gardens UK

Acer x conspicuum 'Phoenix' Interesting, colourful bark is an important element in a winter garden .

How to transform a brugmansia in a couple of months by Matthew Padbury, aged 25 & 3/4.

This exciting traineeship will help nurture future talent in hort. The Adam Greathead Award will see one young hort train at two great gardens this year: John Massey's Garden Ashwood Nurseries and Great Dixter. This year's lucky candidate is Matthew Padbury Please read the message from John