My wife and I decided to visit the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey in Hampshire on February 27th and this gallery contains a selection of the pictures we took.

It was interesting to compare this visit with a previous visit on February 16th 2008 when many flowers and shrubs were already in bloom. It soon became clear that spring has been considerably delayed this year because of the unusually prolonged and cold winter in the south of the UK.