Hyemalis

Winter aconite is the flower that wins. Before anything else has dared to open, before snowdrops have fully committed to the season, winter aconite pushes its bright yellow cups through cold soil in February and March, surrounded by a ruff of bright green leaves, looking entirely unbothered by conditions that would discourage almost anything else. Small in stature but extraordinary in significance, it creates golden carpets beneath deciduous trees that transform the most difficult, root filled spots in the garden into something genuinely lovely. The very first colour of the year, warm, clear yellow, delivered by a flower so small it seems impossible that something so resilient could be so perfectly formed. Dutch grown and selected by BLOM for the healthy tubers that naturalise most willingly.