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NEW YEAR’S DAY FLOWER COUNT 2023

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Barren @Dovefromabove but I am hoping to change all that if it ever stops raining! I am sure I brought plenty of bittercress with me so maybe next year? 
    "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
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited January 2023

    Vinca and viburnum.    That's it 
    First time I've had a good look at the garden in months. Four categories: 
    Definitely  alive 
    Probably  alive
    Probably  dead
    Definitely dead.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Native primulas
    Dark Hellebore
    The protected Mahonia flowers - a small bunch of them
    Various berried plants - mainly the big Cotoneaster and the white berried  Gaultheria
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • I didn't need to go outside to count this really, Mahonia, one of the popular yellows, Charity or Winter Sun (forgotten).

    On the plus side a few bulbs and bits of new growth are showing here and there, but that might be a false reaction to the end of the recent snowy snap.
    Wearside, England.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not a lot here .., not even the chickweed is flowering … 
     
    Rosemary 


    Hellebore … I think this is a self-seeded one. 


    Vinca major 

       

    Viburnum Bodnantense ‘Charles Lamont’
      
    Clematis cirrhosa ‘Freckles’. 

    Looking forward … the Sarcococca confusa is nearly out … I’m so looking forward to that honeyed scent by the front door on a sunny day …





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





  • JemulaJemula Posts: 196
    One cyclamen coum, some mouldy looking primroses, hellebore Merlin with two flowers on Viburnum behind, first flower on variegated Coronilla and small pot of Erica carnea.












  • No flowers but plenty of berries 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    If you think I am going out in the weather we have, you can forget it.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We'll allow you  and others affected by malign weather to make  delayed reports @punkdoc 🤣

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





  • I've just been for a walk around Regent's Park and Primrose Hill. Plenty of mahonia in flower ( no idea which of charity or winter sun), some white chaenomeles (? thought was too early for them but I'm not sure what else it could have been ) . Didn't see any buds on the roses but they have been pruning them , most are defoliated. 

    "My" patio -- other than a couple of blush noisette buds showing colour, and some hebe flowers past their best, only thing abundantly flowering is a hellebore , but since that's a potted christmas present that hasn't actually made it off the kitchen table, I'm not sure it counts.
    Kindness is always the right choice.
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