It’s a no from me. Just Mahonia. I don’t really have much for bloom this time of year anyway.
I am a bit sad that most of my pelargoniums which I put by the back door have succumbed to the cold/wet. Oh well, that’s life when you don’t have a greenhouse.
Very little this year. That cold snap finished off the autumn hangers-on and delayed the spring early birds (so for example the Cyclamen coum aren't out yet, but the C. hederifolium are over).
The best is this beautiful hellebore flower in my winter container by the front door, which has been in bud for a couple of weeks and opened this morning (skimmia buds look good too but do they count as flowers?)
Apart from that, there's the ever-dependable winter jasmine, a few flowers on the perennial candytuft, a single spike of Bowles' Mauve, a few bedraggled bedding cyclamen, and viburnum buds (not yet open). Not counting berries, hips etc.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
As with everyone else, lots finished off by the sub zero temperatures - and there was a lot to finish off a few weeks ago. So not a lot now. Skimmia in bud, campanula (just one!), a straw flower struggling on (sorry, rubbish pic), some paperwhites that have more or less had it (alas they flowered just before the very cold weather), the Lonicera is flowering, so is a vibernum, some wallflowers, and a lamium.
In case you see some flowers out and about today, the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland is running its New Year plant hunt. I found the app and website really easy to use and they have an interactive map so you can see recordings as they come in. I have not seen much on my daily dog walk, but found some daisies in the local meadows.
Plus Vinca, Viburnum and mahonia, but they were in front gardens Plus a Hellebore in my own garden.
I was going to report a similar lack of flowers here too but managed to find a few stalwarts.
As you see most in pots on the patio, appart from Mahonia, and helibores very little in the garden as such. The lemon can always be relied on even if they are mostly hidden under protection.
Plus quite a few things that look much deader than they normally look at this time of year - think -10 has done a fair bit of damage ☹️. There will be some planting opportunities coming up this year 😜
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I am a bit sad that most of my pelargoniums which I put by the back door have succumbed to the cold/wet. Oh well, that’s life when you don’t have a greenhouse.
I have not seen much on my daily dog walk, but found some daisies in the local meadows.
Plus a Hellebore in my own garden.
https://bsbi.org/new-year-plant-hunt
As you see most in pots on the patio, appart from Mahonia, and helibores very little in the garden as such.
The lemon can always be relied on even if they are mostly hidden under protection.
Mahonia
Winter honeysuckle
Anemone Mr Fokker
Primula
Hellebore foetidus
Viburnum bodnantense
Plus quite a few things that look much deader than they normally look at this time of year - think -10 has done a fair bit of damage ☹️. There will be some planting opportunities coming up this year 😜
weeds count, don't they? 😁
It has been very mild ... the daisy is a surprise.
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Red Dead-nettle, Periwinkle, Mahonia bealei, Groundsel, Daphne laureola,
Daisy, Eleagnus ebbingei, Calendula arvensis, Erodium pelargoniflorum,
Euphorbia, one of the little anuuals, Lonicera purpusii, Mahonia x media cultivar, White Dead-nettle, Hairy Bittercress, Lamium maculatum, Hazel,
Chickweed, Viburnum x bodnantense, Viburnum x burkwoodii, Violet, Pulmonaria rubra
In the sticks near Peterborough