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New Year's Day Flower Count 2018
Dovefromabove
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We're going to be away from home for New Year so I've done my count a little early.
Flowering in our garden today are:
Helleborus ericsmithii 'Snow Love'
Sarcocca confusa
Campanula poscharskyana
Cyclamen (bedding type in container under open porch)
Viburnum tinus
Chickweed (Stellaria media)
Lawn daisy (Bellis perennis)
Helleborus orientalis 'Tutu'
Viburnum bodnantense 'Charles Lamont'
Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'
Viola (bedding type)
Achillea moonshine! 
Rudbeckia !
Primula vulgaris
... snowdrops and other hellebores are in bud but not flowering yet.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I'm ready
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut
I had some flowers on a Salvia gregii last week ... but they've disappeared now 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
the frost and snow over the last couple of weeks have reduced my potential numbers
But it doesn't matter. The team search the garden as usual and the mulled wine/mince pie session will be our reward
In the sticks near Peterborough
Until last week had Lobelia tupa in flower ; fading flowers on Melianthus major (a bit late)
; Fatsia japonica
Arbutus unedo flowering and fruiting simultaneously (!)
; Liriope muscari sending up further flower shoots
; Schizostylis coccinea and 'Pink Princess' still showing .
Not a lot else at the moment ; Hellebores are all showing buds and the majority of my bulbs have resurfaced.
I’m on the starting blocks too ....might need a brolly on New Year’s Day though ☔️☔️☔️
If the weather's reasonable on NYD I'll pop out into MIL's S. Lincs garden and do a count there too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for starting this thread, Dove. I'm looking forward to NYD tomorrow to do my count and hopefully take photos, but it's very windy and rainy at the moment and there's a forecast of storm 'Carmen' which will maybe ruin some of the few remaining flowers. We'll see.
Do potted plants on a patio count? If they do, then mine are:
Coronilla citrina
Polyanthus
Erysimum "Winter Orchid"
Crimson bottlebrush.
Oh yes Aster
They definitely count ... lovely.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Looking forward to braving the elements tomorrow to see if I can find anything.