I think it will be a middling sort of count here, after looking round this morning. Previous years include an count of 6 and one of 60+ I want to know who's going to the top of a willow to see if the white bits are flowering or just in bud. Ditto the Hazel
Won't be home on Jan. 1st, so here's my current illustrated list, photos taken today (except for n° 1 and 3, taken just before Xmas). OK, some are more buds than in full bloom, but I hope they still count.
Can't compete with any of that, but I don't have loads of flowery plants anyway.
I will go out tomorrow and take a look, but the Hellebore nigers have been glorious for the past 6 weeks or more, and create a bright glow in the gloom and murk that dominates late autumn and early winter. I also have a little Dianthus that has never stopped flowering, and has some beautiful blooms right now.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Most of mine are out of focus but you'll get an idea Viburnum Cyclamen Penstemon Celandine Helibore Woolworths bare root rose
potentilla Bellis gazania Bidens Vinca White rose with a woman's name - well a bit of it anyway! Pansy Primrose Daisy And another gazania There's also a couple more roses that were camera shy.
Oh - I don’t think I’ll have anything in flower?! My garden has plenty of evergreen shrubs to give interest over Winter but little in the way of blooms. I’m feeling inspired by the lists already. Be fun to look around though - I love seeing buds coming though - more exciting than Christmas!
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I want to know who's going to the top of a willow to see if the white bits are flowering or just in bud. Ditto the Hazel
In the sticks near Peterborough
2.- Spiraea thunbergii 'Fujino Pink'
3.- Clematis 'Samaritan Jo'
4.- Vinca major
5.- Sarcococca confusa
6.- Saxifraga fortunei sp.
7.- Erica carnea
8.- Camellia Japonica x williamsii 'Buttons & Bows'
9.- Erica arborea 'Great Star'
10.- Erica x darleyensis 'Silberschmelze'
11.- Daphne x transatlantica 'Eternal Fragrance'
12.- Helleborus orientalis
14.- Nandina domestica 'Brightlight'
15.- Iberis sempervirens
16.-Salvia 'Amistad'
17.- Diosma hirsuta 'Pink Fountain'
18.- Erigeron karvinskianus
19.- Erigeron glaucus
20.- Exochorda x macrantha 'The Bride'
21.- Choisya ternata 'White Dazzler'
22.- Rosa 'Noason' 'Celina'
23.- Penstemon 'Garnet'
24.- Parahebe 'Avalanche'
25.- Camellia 'Sweet Emily Kate'
26.- Narcissus 'Paperwhite Ziva'
27.- Viburnum plicatum 'Lanarth'
I will go out tomorrow and take a look, but the Hellebore nigers have been glorious for the past 6 weeks or more, and create a bright glow in the gloom and murk that dominates late autumn and early winter.
I also have a little Dianthus that has never stopped flowering, and has some beautiful blooms right now.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Viburnum
Cyclamen
Penstemon
Celandine
Helibore
Woolworths bare root rose
Bellis
gazania
Bidens
Vinca
White rose with a woman's name - well a bit of it anyway!
Pansy
Primrose
Daisy
And another gazania
There's also a couple more roses that were camera shy.