Wood and Garden: Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur

by Gertrude Jekyll

CHAPTER III

FEBRUARY[19]-31

Distant promise of summer — Ivy-berries — Coloured leaves — Berberis Aquifolium — Its many merits — Thinning and pruning shrubs — Lilacs — Removing Suckers — Training Clematis flammula — Forms of trees — Juniper, a neglected native evergreen — Effect of snow — Power of recovery — Beauty of colour — Moss-grown stems.