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Winter flowering shrubs

Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
in Problem solving
My Lonicers fragranstissima is in bud, looking forward to the delicious scent when the buds eventually open.
My Mahonia is also in bud, another perfume treat to look forward to.

My Nerine sarniensis are also in flower, in pots in a sheltered corner, a lovely rose madder colour, so cheerful. 

I might have a bunch of primroses to go on the dinner table on Christmas Day as they are busy flowering at the moment.

Quite a few of my perrenial plants have flowers on them but if we have a frost I expect I will lose them.

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited December 2020
    My winter honeysuckle is flowering but it was too cold yesterday to pick up much perfume.  There was more just a day or two ago when it was warmer.  My mahonia is about to burst too but, oddly, my choisya ternata is in flower and perfumed as is a much bigger specimen next door but one.  Sarcococca to come and there's viburnum tinus bth in flower and in bud and with a faint perfume. 

    Then there are penstemons, osteospermums, pink clover, cyclamen and Malvern Hills rose in flower too and an assortment of yellow and white wildflowers.  

    I've looked but not found any evidence of buzzing from pollinators which seems a shame.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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