UK Flower Guide 2023 - Year-round flowering season + top places to see flowers - March Cherry Blossom Season
A year-round guide to flowering in the UK! A complete guide to the flowering season from January to December, including cherry blossom, lavender, tulips, roses, sunflowers and wisteria! You'll also find the best places to see flowers all year round!
The British are notorious for their love of flowers, and apart from discussing the weather with their friends, they are also known for showing off their gardens. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is an annual flower show where the Queen's grandmother is a regular visitor. Without further ado, let's enjoy the flowers!
UK Year Round Flower Guide 2023
January-March - Winter Jasmine
Best viewed at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London
Address: Kew, Richmond, London, TW9 3AE
Official link: Click to enter
The spring flower is part of the jasmine family and is known as Winter Jasmine because it opens in winter, a long, slender shrub with small leafy yellow flowers. It is also called spring flower because it always opens in early spring in January, bringing spring in the midst of the winter cold.
Image from kew.org, copyright by the original author
March-May - Cherry Blossom in the UK
Best place to see flowers: St James's Park, London
Address: GV28 X3 Westminster, London
Every year the Easter spring break kicks off the cherry blossom viewing trend! The most beautiful part of the park in spring is the pink cherry blossom trees. Walking under the trees, the breeze blows the petals off the trees, but the beauty of the moment is captured in our hearts. The earliest place to see the cherry blossoms is St. James's Park in London, and every year when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, people go to London to see them.
Image courtesy of @LondonxLondon, copyright @ the original author
April-May - Bluebells in the UK Bluebell
Best place to see flowers: Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
Address: Clumber Park, Worksop S80 3AZ
Official link: Click to enter
The bluebell is best remembered by its English name, which is a direct translation, and its name comes from the fact that its flowers resemble tiny blue bells. Bluebells are very common in the UK and can be found in parks in all cities. But the best place to see bluebells is Clumber Park in Nottingham, the most famous place to photograph and see bluebells in the UK. Every year the bluebells attract a large number of visitors and photographers.
Image courtesy of @VisitLiskeard, copyright © 2010
April-May - Tulip viewing in the UK
Best place to see flowers: at Sir Walter Scott's home in Abbotsford
Address: Abbotsford House, Melrose TD6 9BQ
Official link: Click to enter
Everyone knows that the tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands, but you don't have to go there to see tulips. There are many varieties of brightly coloured tulips in the gardens of Britain, the land of horticulture, and the best place to see them is at Sir Walter Scott's house in Abbotsford, Scotland. Sir Walter Scott was also a famous English historian, novelist and poet, and his home has a picturesque collection of over 8,000 tulips of over 20 species.
Image courtesy of @wiselivingmagazine, copyright © 2010
March-May - Poppies in the UK
Best place to see flowers: Blackstone Nature Reserve
Address: B4194, Bewdley DY12 2TQ
Unlike tulips, which are elegant and graceful, poppies are sultry and beautiful, with a hint of danger in their brightness. The British love to see poppies, which are a striking and dazzling shade of red. The best place to see poppies in the UK is in the Blackstone Nature Reserve in central England, close to Birmingham.
Image courtesy of @Daily Mail, copyright © 2010
May-June - Wisteria Flower in England
Best place to see the flowers: in front of Frank Bridge's house near Notting Hill
Address: 2A Bedford Gardens, London W8 7EH, United Kingdom
I first learned about wisteria from SHE's cover of the song Wisteria, but it was only after I came to the UK that I really got to know and see it. Romantic wisteria represents obsessive love, and in the UK you can see it at one of London's hottest wisteria spots.
Address: 2A Bedford Gardens, London W8 7EH, United Kingdom
I first learned about wisteria from SHE's cover of the song Wisteria, but it was only after I came to the UK that I really got to know and see it. Romantic wisteria represents obsessive love, and in the UK you can see it at one of London's hottest wisteria spots.
Image courtesy of @secretldn , Copyright © 2011 by the original author
May-July - Roses in the UK Rose
Best place to see flowers: Blenheim Palace, Churchill Estate
Address: Woodstock OX20 1PP
Official link: click to enter
The national flower of Wales is the yellow daffodil, while the national flower of England is the rose. The people of England have a love affair with roses and the Tudor rose, which represents England, is also emblazoned on British coins. To see roses in England, visit Churchill Manor near Oxford, a World Heritage Site and a classic example of an English garden.
Address: Woodstock OX20 1PP
Official link: click to enter
The national flower of Wales is the yellow daffodil, while the national flower of England is the rose. The people of England have a love affair with roses and the Tudor rose, which represents England, is also emblazoned on British coins. To see roses in England, visit Churchill Manor near Oxford, a World Heritage Site and a classic example of an English garden.
And the rose garden at Churchill Estate is stunningly romantic, so make sure you hit it in June!
Image courtesy of @ExperiencedTraveller , Copyright © 2011 by the original author
June-July - Lavender in the UK
Best place to see the flowers: The Lavender Estate in the Cotswolds
Address: Hill Barn Farm Cottage, Snowshill WR12 7JY
Official link: click to enter
In the UK, you can experience the romance of Provence in Southern France by visiting the lavender fields that are the dream of millions of girls in the summer. The more famous lavender estate in the UK is the lavender estate in the Cotswolds, the most beautiful countryside in the UK, and this estate is also known as the little Provence in the UK.
Address: Hill Barn Farm Cottage, Snowshill WR12 7JY
Official link: click to enter
In the UK, you can experience the romance of Provence in Southern France by visiting the lavender fields that are the dream of millions of girls in the summer. The more famous lavender estate in the UK is the lavender estate in the Cotswolds, the most beautiful countryside in the UK, and this estate is also known as the little Provence in the UK.
Image courtesy of @ThirdeyeTraveller , Copyright © 2011 by the original author
July-August - Sunflowers in the UK
Best place to see flowers: Cadwell farm lavender sunflower estate around Cambridge, London
Address: Cadwell farm, Arlesey Rd, Ickleford, Hitchin SG5 3UA
Official link: click here
After seeing the lavender at the end of July and August can usher in the British sunflower season, full of enthusiasm sunflower really let people look will be a lot of happy, worthy of the flowers in the little sun, full of positive energy! recommended in the middle of London Cambridge Cadwell farm they not only have lavender and sunflowers, really fully meet the needs of the fairies to enjoy (shoot) flowers (photos)!
Image courtesy of @Hitchin Lavender, Copyright © 2011 by the original author
September-October - Chrysanthemum in the UK
Best place to see flowers: Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire
Address: Wimpole Estate, Arrington, Royston SG8 0BW
Official link: click here
Chrysanthemums are perfect for the cool, late autumn days, just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival. The best place to see chrysanthemums in the UK is at the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, the largest private estate in Cambridgeshire!
November-December - Cyclamen in the UK
Best place to see cyclamen: Birmingham Castle Hall Gardens, Bromwich
Address: Kings Heath Park Vicarage Road Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7TQ
Cyclamen is a herbaceous plant from the Mediterranean region of Greece, also known as the radish begonia and the rabbit flower, and is usually in full bloom in winter. The best place to see cyclamen in the UK is in the gardens of Bromwich Castle Hall in Birmingham, where white cyclamen are planted under the yew trees.
Image courtesy of @CastleBromwichHallGardens , copyright @ the original author
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