This photograph was taken earlier this week from clumps of whitebells which have surfaced near the stump of the Norwegian spruce which was felled last year.
I'm not sure whether they should be called whitebells but they're definitely white as you can see. Perhaps the easy description is to say white bluebells, a little like when someone says daffodils we think yellow but some are mainly white.
It's been a week of heavy rain, showers and a very cold wind. Certainly not a week for the garden and it desperately needs work as the weeds are growing with so much enthusiasm. My Australian guests, who left for home this week, were delighted with the weather because they see sunshine most of their year.
Just goes to show every cloud has a silver lining.
