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What is still growing and what is re-growing now where you are?

TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
edited March 2022 in Plants
Hi,

I thought this would be a good place to tell people what's still growing from last year in your garden/yard/pots/balcony etc as well as which perennials are re-growing or what is already in bud after dying down for the winter.

I think it would be a good resource for people to tap into when they are thinking "should this be looking like this at this point in the gardening year".  Obviously the seasons will vary depending on where we all are so please include your location and aspect.

Useful to compare the growth/regrowth rates/condition.

For me (North East England - south facing front garden):

Spiraea Japonica Shirobana is covered in buds

Spiraea Magic Carpet the same

Sorbaria Sem is looking very happy too


Scabious are still flowering from last summer

Eryngium are coming back....

and my agapnathus (not sure which one it is!) is happy against the front of the house....

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  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    A few I can think of here in norwich, knautia still flowering, our sorbaria sem looks similar to yours and we have a Japanese maple coming out in leaf. We still have fuchsias that never shut down from last year, annaul osteopermums ,necotiana and next door has a hanging basket of pelargoniums still looking happy. 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Thanks @thevictorian 🙏🏻
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    West Pennines, @ 1300ft.
    Flowering now: snowdrops, crocuses, Hellebores,Viburnum bodnantense, Cyclamen coum, primulas, Vinca, 1st pulmonaria and Cornus mas.
    Promising buds on daffodils,Cherryplum, Kojo No Mai, Japanese Azaleas, Magnolia stellata and the larch trees.
    New leaves on some roses, elder, Shrubby Potentilla and also some Geraniums, though others are still barely visible below ground.
    Re-growth on daylilies, oriental poppies, crocosmia and Welsh poppies and some rather battered basal foliage left on some other perennials. Still a lot of empty space and bare soil, but still early days here Things will look different in a month or two :)
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I noticed new flowers opening on the old growth of a Salvia Amante yesterday. It's in a sheltered spot by my front door, but it's still not normal behaviour for early March. The flowers are on the top of the tall old stems which will be getting cut back in a month or two.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    Flowering now: snowdrops, various hellebores, camellia, plum blossom, daffs, cyclamen, celandine, fgmn, iris retic, crocus, geranium Rozanne (a few brave blooms), magnolia.

    What's now leafing up: roses, feverfew, common valerian, my bushy salvias of all types have stayed green and are now putting on leaf, some kind of umbellifer - maybe milk parsley, fennel pushing through, welsh poppies leaping forward, linaria bounding along, scilla sprouting, Jupiter's Beard looking strong, hawkbit.

    Heucheras, and erigeron in pots stayed good and green throughout winter. Sweet william and wallflowers are finally spurting and recovering (half autumn's planting lost to slugs), vinca is teflon and never shows a dent, no matter what time of year it is.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hi @TheGreenMan,

    Great idea for a new thread.
    Just hellebores, snowdrops, violas and iris bulbs out here.
    Nothing from last year is still flowering, and very little has new growth.

    I'm happy that things are not putting on loads of fresh new growth ... the frosts won't have finished with us just yet.

    By the way .... keep an eye on that sorbarbia ... I've got one and have to stop it taking over. It's currently 3ft in diameter, and I try to limit it to that by going round it with a spade and chopping off any runners.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Various bulbs are showing their faces but the only thing starting to flower so far is this primula rosea grandiflora.
    East Lancs
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    I have some half-hardy Lobelia pendula 'monsoon' in a pot against a south facing wall that never died back and is still flowering a bit. In another pot against the same wall I have Erigeron karvanskianus that never stopped flowering profusely all winter and is still going strong.

    And perennials that never died back: verbena bonariensis that had lots of new growth from the base when i cut the old stems back a few weeks ago. Scabiosa, fennel, achillea millefolium and geum stayed green all winter.

    Now lots of deciduous things showing lots of new green growth: clematis viticella, honeysuckle, edelweiss, eryngium, echinacea, roses, fucshias, hardy geraniums, rhubarb, aquilegia, astrantia, hawthorn.. Lupins and aconitum well into growth for more than a month now and looking quite lush. And some forget-me-nots started flowering.
  • MrMowMrMow Posts: 160
    edited March 2022
    Removing flowers from Fuchsias, pinks with flowers very close ,daisies very close to flowering and Lupins screaming away on growth, and we have just got out of Feb Crazy.
    I never knew retirement would be so busy. :smile:




  • MrMowMrMow Posts: 160
    I need to get the camera out.
    I never knew retirement would be so busy. :smile:




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