Ok - my count made it to 11 - as landgirl said, it cheers the soul. Thanks to Nut for introducing me to what will now become a Chicky tradition - its amazing what you can find flowering if you really go searching.
I have:
viburnum bodnatense Dawn
hazel catkins
a valiant rudbeckia still holding on to a couple of blooms
ditto with a scabious
a kaffir lily
native primrose
polyanthus
pierus
cyclamen
dandelion
rosemary (a couple of little flowers hiding at the back, in front of a south facing wall - that was my most exciting find!!)
Still to come, but not valid for todays count are 2 daphnes, lots of hellebore buds and a winter box. My gardening year has begun
Guess I'll be at the bottom of the class- looking out all I have is a shrub with white flowers. As I'm still learning not sure of the name of shrub. Indoor cyclamens and plenty of cut flowers which don't count.
Weather awful not venturing out today-not even to the GC.
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Most of my daffs are still below ground, but have a few clumps half an inch tall!
Ok - my count made it to 11 - as landgirl said, it cheers the soul. Thanks to Nut for introducing me to what will now become a Chicky tradition - its amazing what you can find flowering if you really go searching
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I have:
viburnum bodnatense Dawn
hazel catkins
a valiant rudbeckia still holding on to a couple of blooms
ditto with a scabious
a kaffir lily
native primrose
polyanthus
pierus
cyclamen
dandelion
rosemary (a couple of little flowers hiding at the back, in front of a south facing wall - that was my most exciting find!!)
Still to come, but not valid for todays count are 2 daphnes, lots of hellebore buds and a winter box. My gardening year has begun
Very windy and chucking it down with rain in sussex so only a quick survey from various Windows.
In bud , ready to burst into action
Hellebores
Skimmia Kew green
Daffodils but sadly no sight of any snowdrops
In flower/berries
Sorbus Joseph rock
Sorbus aria
Helleborous Niger
Viburnum bodanantense dawn
Viburnum eve price
Primroses
Rose schoolgirl (in a very sheltered spot)
Mahonia japonica
Mahonia charity
Doesn't sound much compared to others but gives me food for thought for next year!
Happy New year
Guess I'll be at the bottom of the class- looking out all I have is a shrub with white flowers. As I'm still learning not sure of the name of shrub. Indoor cyclamens and plenty of cut flowers which don't count.
Weather awful not venturing out today-not even to the GC.
Well I survived a brief tour of the garden, a wet suit would have been useful.
Corsican Hellebore
Leycestria
Sarcococca
Viburnum ? species
Erysimum Bowles mauve
2 X Fuscia, unknown cultivars
Rosa Handel and Princess Ann
Viola
Native primrose
A Hesperis hanging on
Scabious Chat Noir and Butterfly blue
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Weyplotter - your plant could be a type if viburnmum. Are the flowers little and in clusters?
Sow thistle
Iberis sempervirens
Erodium pelargonifolium
Lamium maculatum
Chrysanthemums x 3 well past their best
Eleagnus ebbingeii
White deadnettle
Rosemary
Viburnum, deciduous pink flowered, 2 cultivars with no ID
Euphorbia ceratocarpa
Daphne tangutica
Oryzopsis miliacea
Helleborus x ericsmithii
Choisya ternata
Mahonia bealei
Mahonia ?'Charity'
Sarcococca hookeriana
Pulmonaria rubra
Red deadnettle
Dianthus, ? carthusianorum
Hazel, just a few
Daisy
Corydalis ochroleuca
Borage
Hebe ' Midsummer Beauty'
Helleborus x orientalis
Viburnum tinus
Close but not quite
Lonicera fragrantissima
Daphne 'Eternal Fragrance'
Helleborus niger
Cyclamen coum
In the sticks near Peterborough
I reckon if it's chucking it down with rain you can have an extension til tomorrow Verdun. It's very rough here now, I wouldn't want to be out there.
Roll on spring
Though it would be good to get a few more of the winter jobs done
In the sticks near Peterborough