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NEW YEAR’S DAY FLOWER COUNT

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  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172
    edited January 2020
    nice lots of pictures all
    lot less I think than last year, went around yesterday just did not go onto computer

    Kerria, wallflower, lavender, dogwood midwinter fire, mahonia

    back garden yellow rose, Hebe trudy and lisa, primrosre yellow and pink,red dogwood, broom and violas mix colour
    forgot at allotment plot yellow winter jasmine
    Hampshire Gardener
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    We've had very heavy rain and gales, also frosts -4° in SW France.

    I have violas.
    There are a few roses but they are so bedraggled they hardly count.
    One tiny patch of phlox subulata.
    No hellebores, white ones seem to have disappeared, too early for the coloured ones.

    I think it's probably the worst ever for flowers.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I haven't done a proper count but my gazanias are still flowering.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Doing some cutting down and found some geraniums still in flower. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • tessagardenbarmytessagardenbarmy Posts: 346
    Winter jasmine, Witch Hazel, Christmas box just starting, hellebore buds, odd rose bud, shrubby honeysuckle just starting and violas and cyclamen. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2020
    Not as many as in most years 

    Viburnum bodnantense
    Clematis ‘Freckles’
    Hellebore x ericsmithii ‘Snow Love’
    Sarcococca
    Campanula portenschlagiana
    Viburnum tinus
    Erysimum ‘Apricot twist’
    Snowdrops

    and quite a few lawn daisies 

    That’s the lot this year. 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 716
    Daphne “Perfume Princess” - the first flowers started showing, but plenty of buds. Such an amazing scent too 😊


    Surrey
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I have not really had a thorough check, but near to the hellebores starting to flower, was a clematis. A red one bought as a cheap Morrisons special, has one flower going over, and three buds looking ready to open.  I did notice a big cabbagey thing, a trunk as thick as a table leg, cabbagey leaves  with yellow flowers on in the wasteland next door. I planted the rest of the bulbs today. I dug a trench alongside the fence and chucked them all in.  They have two chances.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Continued here: https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1048640/new-year-s-day-flower-count-2021/p1?new=1

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Viburnum
    variegated periwinkle
    various penstemons
     white marguerite
    a few sheltered osteospermums
     the odd rose dotted about
     pansies
     feverfew
     nigella
     gazania,
    EBM ( one I missed when I was hoiking them all out)
    cyclamen
    The odd salvia,
    two very hardy geraniums
     hawkshead fuchsia (one of my gall mite Lazarus plants)
    that
    Sounds better than it is. In reality,all are very tatty.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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