My rural Gloucestersire garden seems to think it's still late Summer - hollyhocks and bedding geraniums still putting on a brave show, as well as a climbing rose flowering in the holly tree, cheek by jowl with all the red berries. Wierd! Has anybody else noticed the insects are still out and about as well?
Saw some blue bearded irises in bloom in a Bristol front garden last Thursday. I was amazed. Probably cut back the frosts we've had over the past couple off days.
Just to add to the pot - I have had Clematis Niobe and Clematis Ernest Markham covered in flowers all winter. It is bizarre to look outside and see them covered in sparkly frost. Bulb wise, I had hyacinths starting to flower last month and now there are crocuses too. I live in Cambridge, and my garden is not that sheltered. Winter has been very very strange. well the whole year, really!
we havent had any frost or snow down here in cornwall its been so mild , i have daffodils, crocuses, roses, my camellias are looking lovely i hope we dont have any hard frost i would hate to loose everything.
Weather difficult for novice gardeners! I have an ornamental quince (chaenomeles japonica) that I should like to move but it already has very tiny buds. Can I do it or is it too late? I know it flowers early but I've been waiting for the garden to go to sleep for Winter! Thanks. Also wish to move two Hebes but am more confident about these.
Keen novice, my chaenomeles is now in full flower. My advice would be to wait until yours has finished flowering before trying to move it.
The mild weather has meant I have been pottering around the garden far more than is usual in January. I have even mown the lawn! It seems a strange time of year to be dead-heading summer flowers! However, the frosts over the last few days have put paid to the begonias, marigolds and nasturtiums, so I have removed them all now and am waiting to see all my spring bulbs come into flower - snowdrops are already doing so.
Thanks for the advice - bit of a bind but I need to go with Nature's flow! Does this mean I can move it straight after flowering or should I wait until November/Dec. 2012 when it might be dormant?!
Hi Ruth Bailey, I too have Campion in my garden, just appeared. Be warned, it will take over if you don't look out. My small back garden was totally overrun with it. Ended up taking everything out and replanting. That said, it is pretty!
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My rural Gloucestersire garden seems to think it's still late Summer - hollyhocks and bedding geraniums still putting on a brave show, as well as a climbing rose flowering in the holly tree, cheek by jowl with all the red berries. Wierd! Has anybody else noticed the insects are still out and about as well?
Just to add to the pot - I have had Clematis Niobe and Clematis Ernest Markham covered in flowers all winter. It is bizarre to look outside and see them covered in sparkly frost. Bulb wise, I had hyacinths starting to flower last month and now there are crocuses too. I live in Cambridge, and my garden is not that sheltered. Winter has been very very strange. well the whole year, really!
we havent had any frost or snow down here in cornwall its been so mild , i have daffodils, crocuses, roses, my camellias are looking lovely i hope we dont have any hard frost i would hate to loose everything.
Weather difficult for novice gardeners! I have an ornamental quince (chaenomeles japonica) that I should like to move but it already has very tiny buds. Can I do it or is it too late? I know it flowers early but I've been waiting for the garden to go to sleep for Winter! Thanks. Also wish to move two Hebes but am more confident about these.
Keen novice, my chaenomeles is now in full flower. My advice would be to wait until yours has finished flowering before trying to move it.
The mild weather has meant I have been pottering around the garden far more than is usual in January. I have even mown the lawn! It seems a strange time of year to be dead-heading summer flowers! However, the frosts over the last few days have put paid to the begonias, marigolds and nasturtiums, so I have removed them all now and am waiting to see all my spring bulbs come into flower - snowdrops are already doing so.
Thanks for the advice - bit of a bind but I need to go with Nature's flow! Does this mean I can move it straight after flowering or should I wait until November/Dec. 2012 when it might be dormant?!
Hi there,
By the marina in Torquay, agapanthus have been flowering since mid December! last week we cut our lawn and weeded all the borders.
I'm in Torquay and i still have a passion flower in flower, and Daisy's happily popping their heads up on a lawn that's looks like it needs cutting??