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| Flowering Witch-hazel. I've only seen this a couple of times. I presume it gets its name from the weird way it blossoms in winter, and with such a profusion of flowers borne on old wood ... I think it is usually a bit yellower than this. |
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| An old favourite of ours - the Japanese quince - we have one at La Serra too |
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| Winter Jasmine - beautiful, but no scent like the real thing ... |
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| We've not had many sunsets (not enough clouds!) so I snapped this one ... |
Please keep taking the flowers. Fabulous to see these and the elephant's ear flower in the next post. I was thinking Witch-hazel grows in Scotland but maybe getting confused with wych elm. Somebody on the web speculates that the word witch and wych are a corruption of an old English word wice meaning pliable, bendy. Anyway I've never been aware of ever seeing this flower.
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