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NEW YEAR’S DAY FLOWER COUNT 2023

Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
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Hi all fellow gardeners! Just a reminder that our traditional New Year's Day Flower Count is starting in a week's time, Jan. 1st, 2023.
Looking forward to your lists and pics!
Get your notebooks and cameras at the ready. ;)

Link to last year's FLOWER COUNT 2022
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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    A reminder: 2 days left before our great New Year's Day Flower Count! ;)
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    I’m getting ready 😀😀😀
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    If the weather stays like this, I will not be going out.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think it's to be a bit better by Sunday @punkdoc, although I'm not holding my breath  ;)
    I think we have snow in the forecast for here, so I might not be able to see anything anyway. Possibly a few native primulas in flower, and I know there's a dark hellebore in flower just now. That'll be about it for me!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    That last cold spell killed everything off.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Today’s the day!  Brolly at the ready … but first a strong hot coffee …

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'll have a look when it's light, but I'll just have to remember what there is, and it's what I said the other day- the native prims and a Hellebore. Everything's covered in a small layer of snow/ice.
    I think there's a few flowers on the Mahonia that had more protection.
    Most of my garden has evergreens for winter, so that's the main interest until crocus etc  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    My count is too easy this year.  Just moved into a new build so back garden is a mudbath with a generous helping of hardcore and the front is landscaped pretty unimagitively with grass surrounded by photinia.
    There I'm done.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    herbaceous said:
    My count is too easy this year.  Just moved into a new build so back garden is a mudbath with a generous helping of hardcore and the front is landscaped pretty unimagitively with grass surrounded by photinia.
    There I'm done.
     :D 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    herbaceous said:
    My count is too easy this year.  Just moved into a new build so back garden is a mudbath with a generous helping of hardcore and the front is landscaped pretty unimagitively with grass surrounded by photinia.
    There I'm done.
    Wot!  Not even a plant of hairy bittercress in bloom?  Lucky you 😉 

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





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