Springtime in Pavilion Gardens

Royal Pavilion gardens

Plants to see in the flowerbeds, No 1 of 4

There's always something to look out for in the Royal Pavilion Gardens. In early Spring look out for the following:

• Flowering almond trees
• Fragrant daphne odora and daphne mezereon
• Single and double flowered gorse
• Red-flowered heath (Erica mediterranea)
• Camellia
• Japanese quince (chaenomeles)
• Magnolia tripetala
• Jews mallow (kerria japonica)

Snowdrops, primroses and winter hellebores should be in bloom at the front of shrubberies. Wild daffodils and yellow crocus are strewn over the north lawn.

[Information from 'Set for a King: 200 years of gardening at the Royal Pavilion', by Mike Jones, Royal Pavilion, Museums & Libraries, 2005; previously published in the 'North Laine Runner', No 178, Jan/Feb 2006]