Chamonix Chalet news

It’s one of our favourite times of year - the mountains are still thickly blanketed with snow, while the valley becomes flushed with green and alive with flowers and blossom. We leave most of the lawn as a natural meadow, so the Alpine flowers flourish, and they are just starting to bloom.

These lovely violets are peeping out from the shadier parts of the garden, thriving with the ferns and grass below the pines.

Close up on a single violet flower:

Drifts of Birdsfoot Trefoil are appearing over the garden

There’s a lot of this small yellow flower, which I haven’t identified yet - if you know what it is, let me know…

Forget-me-nots and speedwells are coming up around the hot tub

and there seem to be more Bugle flowers this year