In the pink: How camellias will add cheer to the garden

Peter Dowdall on the many ways these flowers perk up your plot in spring and throughout the year

Camellias don't just provide colour for the spring garden they also have many different flower forms such as this formal double pink variety. Picture: iStock

The daffs are out early this year, aren’t they? Or perhaps I think that every year, I’m not sure. I was admiring a planting of them standing resplendent in the early spring sunshine during the week outside the Tramore Valley Park.

They looked as bright and cheerful as only freshly opening daffodils in spring sunshine can look — good for the soul and the mental health just to admire them.