PAINTING BY NUMBERS
Feb 03, 2022
4 minutes
Words Sue Bradley
Photographs Peter Chatterton
The arrival of spring lifts the lid on a paint box of colours at Elworthy Cottage, with bulbs and early blooms pushing their buds through the earth to welcome the gradually lengthening days.
Whether they are brightening borders or making their presence felt within areas of long grass, the appearance of these blooms in the wake of white carpets of snowdrops heralds an acceleration of growth in the garden.
Mike and Jenny Spiller never tire of the sight of spring flowers surrounding their 19th-century cottage on the eastern end of the Exmoor National Park in Somerset, although spending any length of time amid the primroses, hellebores and
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