Before Alan and Thordis return to their weekly chats with top gardeners, they've decided to sneak in a bonus Happy New Year episode. Looking both back and forwards, it covers lots of lovely plants brightening up their gardens, and some hopes for 2022.

PLANT LIST

Camellia sasanqua

Camellia reticulata

Camellia japonica

Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'

Galanthus plicatus 'Three Ships'

Rosa × odorata 'Bengal Crimson'

Cobaea pringlei

Eryngium pandanifolium

Euphorbia azorica

Victoria cruziana

Trachelospermum asiaticum

Eccremocarpus scaber

Clematis cirrhosa 'Jingle Bells'

Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens 'Freckles' 

Arum italicum subsp. neglectum 'Miss Janay Hall'

Galanthus elwesii 'Barnes'

Cyclamen coum

Cornus sericea 'Flaviramea'

Cornus sanguinea 'Anny's Winter Orange'

Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire'

Carpinus fangiana

Nicotiana langsdorffii

Nicotiana knightiana

Eranthis hyemalis 'Grünling'

Chorizema ilicifolium

Salix alba var. vitellina 'Britzensis'

Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Grandiflora'