E.A.Bowles of Myddelton House Society

Hello Everyone After the record temperatures we've seen this week, it's hard to remember that on the first day of February we had snow! Not very much here at Myddelton but enough to send me out with my camera. It was already beginning to thaw and I always love to see how far the trees spread out protecting the ground beneath its branches, photos 1 to 5. Two weeks later we have experienced amazing temperatures for this time of year. It's not natural and I expect there will be

The snowdrops here are named after E.A Bowles himself and Myddelton Gardener Bryan Hewitt.

So Happy New Year to you all. January can be dull and dreary at times but here in the garden there are all sorts of delights to enjoy. First of all in the Arboretum along side the main drive is a bed full of Cornus, dogwood. These are often grown for their showy coloured stems that brighten the garden through winter. Here they are under planted with Eranthus hyemalis, winter aconites, so the whole arrangement is very pleasing and very colourful too, photo 1. Walking from the