As you can see in the photo we always have a huge display of bulbs in pots in the spring for colour, but more importantly for scent as this enclosed space concentrates the perfume of scented plants and is especially intoxicating, particularly when we first open the windows in the morning.
We are simplifying the display this year so as to give our visitors more room to move around the space so as to fully experience the architecture and design aspects of this very important building.
We hope to build on this display in the future by removing the tender lemon tree each winter to our nursery and to then place pots of hardy trees and shrubs in here. These will have either coloured bark or scented flowers and should include daphnes, willows, dogwoods, clematis and other rare or interesting specimens. This is to build on the work that we have carried out designing our Winter Garden and so as to offer our visitors another area of display from November to March.