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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Here it is!





    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That looks quite similar to the ones I saw @JennyJ. I'm thinking of adding some early daffs for the garden, but I'm also considering the winter aconites as they're appearing just now. Great groundcover and a burst of bright colour to lift the gloomy overhead stuff    :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I wish I knew what it was! I shouldn't think it's anything fancy/expensive because the previous people here weren't really the kind of gardeners that would spend a lot on plants.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I sometimes like the fact that I don't know what things are. Maybe I'm just obtuse @JennyJ ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited February 2023
    We have some like that. They're cream ish. I don't particularly like them. I think they're probably ice follies.
    Edit
     your pic turned up while I was posting. Mine are ice follies. Don't know what yours are😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Not Ice Follies - I have lots of those but they're nowhere near flowering.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The ones I saw were much yellower all over - yours definitely look quite pale in the outer ring. I think Ice Follies is much bigger than the ones I saw too, but I wasn't looking too closely. 
    Nice to have them though.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    It looks quite like my 'wild' daffodils, Narcissus pseudonarcissus. They do naturalise.

    Here in 2021 (22 Feb):



    And 2022 (18 Feb)



    They're not out yet this year.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    No daffodils here yet, we have iris reticulated in pots in bloom.
    AB Still learning

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited February 2023
    There are lots of wild daffs round here growing in hedgerows, woodlands and damper paddocks that look just like the one in the photo above.  I really like them.  Much better than the big blowsy ones tho I do also like Ice Follies.

    No daffs out here yet tho, wild or in teh garden and the snowdrops have only just poked thru.  Normally, those and the iris reticulatain a sunnier spot are in bloom by now.   Cold again here with a bitter wind so they'll not be in a hurry.

    Good job the Japanese quince and winter honeysuckle aren't so fussy or there'd be nothing for the pollnators.
    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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