Forsythia giraldiana a wild collected species from China produces a delicate scent from butter yellow flowers on deciduous wood. In other areas of the garden the ground flora has developed with Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara, showing a multitude of flower spikes from the leafless clump of herbaceous rhizomes. Treated as a weed; yet at this time of year it has value in the yellow flowers. Thirdly the later flowering cultivar of Eranthis hyemalis ‘Guinea Gold’ is a fine plant to raise the interest in a woodland border.

Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara

Eranthis hyemalis ‘Guinea Gold’

Forsythia giraldiana