A couple of camellias in flower, including a huge tree, which I think might be ‘Donation’. One primrose in a crack on the drive, and two cheeky buttercups!
I've got 15 in flower/bud. I'm counting the camellia in as it did have flowers on it yesterday but the hailstorm yesterday means that the petals are now on the ground!
Camellia, Snowdrop, Primrose, Lonicera fragantissima, two roses, Pink Flower Carpet and 'Elizabeth'. Clematis cirrhosa Freckles, Hellebores (just), Rosemary prostrata, Vinca minor alba, 2 Heathers, Springwood White and Springwood Pink, Cyclamen, Primula, Knautia macedonica, Erigeron karvinskianus, Winter jasmine.
The biggest surprise was the Knautia, two tiny dark red bobbles. This would normally have died down by now but hasn't lost its leaves yet. No photos I'm afraid, picked up the phone to do it but out of charge and now it's raining - again.
Some beautiful pics on here, cheered me up no end and encouraged me to get more winter flowerers for next year. Especially liked Dove's viburnam.
Fairly desolate here. Weather has been brutal, there were still flowers until just before C-mas, I even picked a rose on C.mas Day, but everything has taken a battering since.
A single flower on a Vinca, a couple on a red primula, Vib.Bodnantense the only thing looking spring-like. Buds just opening on a couple of Hellebores and H. foetidus has some flowers out. Buds on the Skimmia.
There may be primroses but it is not possible to walk anywhere near them without risking life and limb and damaging the path still further. The torrent of water cascading down the hillside looks and sounds lovely though
A few things flowering now, most in my wife's pots. Other than those in the photos there are different coloured Pansies, some slug-chewed Primula vulgaris and a few Miscanthus tassles.
Winter Honeysuckle
Hellebore 'Christmas Carol'
Red Wallflower
Orange Wallflower
Yellow Wallflower
Orange Viola
Purple Viola
Yellow Viola
Nemesia (never really stops flowering)
Hebe 'Donna'
Rose (not sure which variety)
Pansy
Helenium 'Mardi Gras' - just hanging on
Having looked at all the posts of lovely flowers, can I just say it would be far more meaningful if we knew where everyone's garden is. I'm sure I saw Forget-me-Not in flower in one of them but ours never flower before March.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
It's raining and slippery and muddy out there so this is just what I can see from the windows:-
Roses - Breathless Charm, La Traviata, Lady of the Lake and The Fairy. Shrubs - Choisya White Dazzler, chaeonomeles japonica, sarcococca ruscifolia, chimonanthus praecox, viburnum Eve Price, mahonia Winter Sun, edgeworthia. Others - a fuchsia in the polytunnel plust the lemon, liquat and yuzu. Outside the mimosa is budding up well and there are loads of white flowers in the grass.
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)."
The viburnum and Mahonia are putting on quite a show and there have been a large number of bees around the mahonia when the rain takes a break.
There are also some half eaten primulas of various colours. Only one of the hellebores in flower so far. Plus I think some type of Arabis (?), heather and Veronica umbrosa.
I was also surpised to see some of the snapdragons still flowering.
There are very few hangers-on this year - that cold snap at the beginning of December clobbered most things.
Seasonal flowers:
Helleborus niger "Christmas Carol" Winter jasmine Cyclamen coum Viburnum "Gwenllian" Sarcococca confusa A purple primula that looks like Wanda, only bigger, so probably a self-sown hybrid offspring
All-year-round-ers:
Vinca major (variegated, blue-mauve flowers) Erysimum "Bowles' Mauve"
Hangers-on and random oddities:
A pink Knautia with quite a lot of flowers on it (one of the Melton Pastels) A few white arabis A single flower on a stalk of white Campanula persicifolia A couple of flowers on Ceanothus "Concha" (mostly a spring-flowerer but these few appeared in the autumn) A small cluster of flowers on a gold-leaved feverfew (self-sown) Yellow bidens in a hanging basket that must be a bit more sheltered than the others.
No pics because I forgot to take my phone outside with me and now it's going dark.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The slimmest of slim pickings here. The hellebores look done for in a soggy bog. Plenty of evergreenery and berries. There are some cyclamen in the front but, other than that, a solitary flowering plant in our back garden
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Camellia, Snowdrop, Primrose, Lonicera fragantissima, two roses, Pink Flower Carpet and 'Elizabeth'. Clematis cirrhosa Freckles, Hellebores (just), Rosemary prostrata,
Vinca minor alba, 2 Heathers, Springwood White and Springwood Pink, Cyclamen, Primula, Knautia macedonica, Erigeron karvinskianus, Winter jasmine.
The biggest surprise was the Knautia, two tiny dark red bobbles. This would normally have died down by now but hasn't lost its leaves yet. No photos I'm afraid, picked up the phone to do it but out of charge and now it's raining - again.
Some beautiful pics on here, cheered me up no end and encouraged me to get more winter flowerers for next year. Especially liked Dove's viburnam.
Winter Honeysuckle
Hellebore 'Christmas Carol'
Red Wallflower
Orange Wallflower
Yellow Wallflower
Orange Viola
Purple Viola
Yellow Viola
Nemesia (never really stops flowering)
Hebe 'Donna'
Rose (not sure which variety)
Pansy
Helenium 'Mardi Gras' - just hanging on
Having looked at all the posts of lovely flowers, can I just say it would be far more meaningful if we knew where everyone's garden is. I'm sure I saw Forget-me-Not in flower in one of them but ours never flower before March.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Roses - Breathless Charm, La Traviata, Lady of the Lake and The Fairy.
Shrubs - Choisya White Dazzler, chaeonomeles japonica, sarcococca ruscifolia, chimonanthus praecox, viburnum Eve Price, mahonia Winter Sun, edgeworthia.
Others - a fuchsia in the polytunnel plust the lemon, liquat and yuzu. Outside the mimosa is budding up well and there are loads of white flowers in the grass.
Winter jasmine
Cyclamen coum
Viburnum "Gwenllian"
Sarcococca confusa
A purple primula that looks like Wanda, only bigger, so probably a self-sown hybrid offspring
Erysimum "Bowles' Mauve"
A few white arabis
A single flower on a stalk of white Campanula persicifolia
A couple of flowers on Ceanothus "Concha" (mostly a spring-flowerer but these few appeared in the autumn)
A small cluster of flowers on a gold-leaved feverfew (self-sown)
Yellow bidens in a hanging basket that must be a bit more sheltered than the others.