Anna Pavord: 'The garden is dying back, but colchicums and amaryllis are bursting through'

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Gardeners look forward to the arrival of snowdrops in late winter more eagerly than any other event in the garden. But in many ways the sudden presence of colchicums and amaryllis now, at the cigarette end of summer, is even more dramatic. Partly it's because both of them push their flowers through the ground, naked of any leaves. There's no clump of foliage to prepare you for the event. One day, bare earth. The next, these fat fleshy nubs of colour.












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