Here's my real list (rather than my dreamworld list, which seemed to have a lot of orange flowers as far as I remember, including gazanias and crocosmia!):
All a bit bedraggled in the drizzle, and some a bit of a push (the pennisetum is a cheat to make up the square...).
Very few here: a couple of viburnum 'Dawn' in flower but half the flowers have been frosted, a few semi-munched primula, two anemone De Caen, a single flower on daphne. Only buds showing on any of the hellebores. Lots of ivy flowers still though so something for the Red Admirals which come out on warm days.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Hi all flower-counting fellow forum members! Some of you have posted incredibly long lists of their garden flowers. Special congrats to LG the L's 'real' (not dreamed) illustrated list.
As you may have heard on the other discussion threads today, the whole West of France is suffering from the 'Carmen' storm. Here in my part of Brittany we've had lots of wind and rain yesterday and last night. However no damages and no electricity cuts where I live. Just after watching the traditional Vienna NYD concert on the TV I rushed to my garden between 2 showers and managed to take pics of no less than 24 plants in flower. Well, some of them do not make a great show but they are real flowers all the same (or promising flower buds). Here we go...
1.- periwinkle Vinca major
2.- alpine heath Erica carnea
3.- sweet box Sarcococca confusa (buds)
4.- Darley Dale heath Erica x darleyensis 'Silberschmelze'. In flower from October to April!
5.- Erica lusitanica 'Le Vasterival'. In flower from November to March.
6.- Schizostylis coccinea Pink Princess (?)
7.- Chinese sacred bamboo 'Brightlight' Nandina domestica 'Brightlight'. In flower almost all year round.
8.- rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis 'Pointe du Raz'
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THREE hogweed. You're doing better than me
I have two (possibly two and a half)
1: Viburnum tinus
2: Forsythia
Skimmia Japonica has red buds. Does that count as a halfway there flower?
Here's my real list (rather than my dreamworld list, which seemed to have a lot of orange flowers as far as I remember, including gazanias and crocosmia!):
All a bit bedraggled in the drizzle, and some a bit of a push (the pennisetum is a cheat to make up the square...).
Viburnum tinus
Erigeron karvinskianus
Choisya ternata
Pennisetum setaceum 'Skyrocket'
Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Jasminun nudiflorum
Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin'
Primula vulgaris
Viburnum x bodnantense ('Deben'?)
Very few here: a couple of viburnum 'Dawn' in flower but half the flowers have been frosted, a few semi-munched primula, two anemone De Caen, a single flower on daphne. Only buds showing on any of the hellebores. Lots of ivy flowers still though so something for the Red Admirals which come out on warm days.
Nothing outdoors, but flowering in our unheated greenhouse, Freesia laxa Azurea
It finally stopped raining here so popped outside and this is what I found
Cyclamen hederifolium (just hanging on)
Cyclamen coum
Cyclamen (bedding type in patio container)
Rose (red)
Winter Heathers purple and pink
Various Primroses and Polyanthus
Vinca Major (Periwinkle)
Campanula poscharskyana (rockery type growing in wall)
Erigeron karvinskianus
Red Campion
Fool's Parsley
Ivy leaved toadflax
Sweet Rocket (white)
Winter Jasmine
Viburnum tinus
Sarcococca ruscifolia
Helleborus foetida
In pots - pansies and viola, polyanthus and primroses, wallflowers,Dianthus, nemesia, brachyscome (swan river daisy)
Skimmia rubella (in bud)
Hazel Catkins (not fully open yet)
Daffodils (in bud)
Hellebores (various in bud)
Wood spurge (in bud)
I seem to have got far more than I thought
Sarcococa
Viburnum bod. Dawn
Erica carnea springwood white
Rose blush noisette
Vinca major
Primrose vulgaris
Penstamum, white, pink and red.
Clematis duchess of Edinburgh (which I think is group 2 so goodness knows what it's doing)
Jasmine nudiflorum
Hellebore, both white and pink but they were here before us so I don't know what they are
Aubretia
Osteospurmum, seems as tough as old boots in this garden. I never do anything to it except hack it back if it gets too big
Mecanopsis cambrica
Calendula, orange prince, looks a bit bedraggled now but I missed him when I pulled the rest out
Nigella, self sown in the paving cracks
Erigeron karvinskianus
Been lucky with the weather so nothing seems to have been knocked back,let's hope that
I'm not tempting fate!
What lovely lists of gorgeous things... not that I'm jealous or anything...
Here in my shady Pennine garden the temperature hasn't got above 5C for weeks, and was below freezing for ages, so the list is rather short:
Viburnum fragrans
Lonicera purpusii 'Winter Beauty'
Erica carnea 'December Red' and 'Springwood White'
Euphorbia martinii 'Ascot Rainbow'
Better luck next year. Looking round was fab anyway - didn't want to come indoors...
Erodium pelargonifolium
Iris unguicularis
Calendula arvensis
Glechoma hederacea
Bupleurum falcatum
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Cyclamen coum
Dianthus barbatus
Bellis perennis
Dianthus carthusianorum
Daphme tangutica
Daphne laureola
Daphne mezereum album
Forsythia
Lonicera x purpusii
Lonicera elisae
Viburnum lantana
Viburnum x bodnantense
Viburnum rhytidophyllum
Viburnum tinus
Lamium maculatum
Helleborus foetidus
Helleborus Oriental hybrids
Jasminum nudiflorum
Vinca major
Mahonia x media
Mahonia bealei
Sarcococca confusa
Sarcococca wallichii
Primula elatior
Acanthus mollis
Tanacetum parthenium
Corydalis ochroleuca
Chimonanthus praecox
Pansy
Red Dead-nettle
Allium triquetum
Helichrysum italicum
Pulmonaria rubra
Phlomis grandiflora
Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve'
I left most of the 'weeds' out
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi all flower-counting fellow forum members! Some of you have posted incredibly long lists of their garden flowers. Special congrats to LG the L's 'real' (not dreamed
) illustrated list.
As you may have heard on the other discussion threads today, the whole West of France is suffering from the 'Carmen' storm. Here in my part of Brittany we've had lots of wind and rain yesterday and last night. However no damages and no electricity cuts where I live. Just after watching the traditional Vienna NYD concert on the TV I rushed to my garden between 2 showers and managed to take pics of no less than 24 plants in flower. Well, some of them do not make a great show but they are real flowers all the same (or promising flower buds). Here we go...
1.- periwinkle Vinca major
2.- alpine heath Erica carnea
3.- sweet box Sarcococca confusa (buds)
4.- Darley Dale heath Erica x darleyensis 'Silberschmelze'. In flower from October to April!
5.- Erica lusitanica 'Le Vasterival'. In flower from November to March.
6.- Schizostylis coccinea Pink Princess (?)
7.- Chinese sacred bamboo 'Brightlight' Nandina domestica 'Brightlight'. In flower almost all year round.
8.- rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis 'Pointe du Raz'
9.- Skimmia Japonica 'Rubella' (buds)
10.- lesser calamint Calamintha nepeta (only 2 flowers left)
11.- perennial candytuft Iberis sempervirens
12.- Sweet Pea Bush Polygala myrtifolia (the last flower of the season)
13.- Diosma hirsuta 'Pink Fountain'. A very early start this season.
14.- Mexican orange Choisya x dewitteana 'White Dazzler' (only one flower today!)
15.- Mexican fleabane Erigeron karvinskianus
16.- penstemon 'Apple blossom'
17.- rose flower carpet Yellow Sunshine Rosa 'Noason' 'Celina'
18.- Geranium renardii
19.- Rosa 'Madame Alfred Carrière'. Likes to flower at odd times throughout the year!
20.- obedient plant Physostegia virginiana ‘Bouquet rose’
21.- penstemon 'Garnet'
22.- Narcissus Tazetta ‘Paperwhite Ziva’
23.- hellebore 'Pink Frost' (buds)
24.- seaside fleabane Erigeron glaucus.One of the last flowers of the season
Just when I'd finished taking those photos a rainbow appeared over my garden. Here's part of it over my malus 'Evereste'.