What a treat it was to find this gorgeous little woodland plant sprinkled along the roadside in north-east Croatia.  Drifts of Omphaldoes intermingled with little white Anemones.  Honestly, you couldn’t make a prettier scene in your own garden than what we drove past for miles and miles today.

Omphalodes are available in NZ in spring time.  Not this particular version, but a more clump forming one with exactly the same flower and more of them.  They are really easy to grow in part shade and every year, if you are lucky, you get half a dozen seedlings to germinate around the parent plant.  It’s such a sweetie flowering so early in the spring.