Nature Notes for March and April 2025

The plants in flower in the Gardens during March and April included:

• Crocus
• Hyacinth
• ​Snake’s head fritillary
• ​​Cowslip
• Honesty
• Anemone blanda
• Quamash (Camassia leichtlinii)
• Mexican Orange Blossom (Choisya)
• Grape hyacinth (Muscari neglectum)
• ​Iris reticulata
• Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
• Viola
  
• Dwarf flowering cherry
• Fruit blossom​

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• Daffodil
• Primrose
• Polyanthus
• Stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus)
• Lenten rose(Helleborus orientalis)
• Spurge
• ​Speedwell ‘Georgia Blue’
• Spiraea (Bridal Wreath)
• Weeping forsythia
• Glory of the snow (Chionodoxa forbesii)
• Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
• ​Lungwort 'Blue Ensign' (Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign')​

Wildlife sightings

• Evidence that a hedgehog is back in the gardens
• Pied wagtail
• Bees
• Brimstone butterfly
• Orange tip butterfly
• Small tortoiseshell butterfly
• Holly blue butterfly

We have published on the website under ALL MEDIA a selection of photos taken in the Gardens this spring.  Click here to view that page.

Below are some more photos taken in the Storey Gardens during March and April.  ​Click on an image to enlarge.