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New Year's Day 2014 Flower Count

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  • Afternoon,

    I know it's technically the 2nd, but the weather here yesterday was truly horrid, and didn't stop once.

    So I had a gander today and found

    2 types of violas

    fuchsia

    chamomile

    rosemary (covered in flowers)

    veronica (speedwell type)

    campanula (alpine)

    and amazingly a lavender

    Not a lot I know, but it has made me smile and lots more is in bud.. I'm ready for spring now.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I think a day late after yesterday's weather is totally acceptable MM,

    and it does cheer you up.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

    Oh Heck

    Now, let me see

    Violas, various colour ways

    Feverfew

    Roses: The fairy pink and white, white goose, Malvern Hills

    Erysinum

    Primula

    Antirrhinum

    Arabis Ferdinand-Coburg

    Skimmia buds  - aways look better than the flowers In think

    Hellebore corsicus in bud but not yet opened

    Rosemary

  • Yep Nutcutlet, It definitely cheers you up.

    Just popped out and bought some seeds and then cut the large branches off the sickly Laburnam to stop it wobbling around so much in the wind. Hopefully it won't fly through the window now!

    Thanks again for your help.

  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

    I forgot - Found cyclamen coum nestling in a weedy bed, lovely deep colour as well

  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,171

    Hello all

    Done a train garden count today flowers are

    Honesty purple

    Primrose

    Violas honey bee

    Anemone

    Stock

    Sweet Williams

    Alyssum

    dandelions

    Hebe Lisa

    and a red flower plant shrub with spiky twigs

    Hampshire Gardener
  • Was out yesterday so had a look today; I am amazed as to what's in flower, albeit "only just" in some cases!

    Winter-flowering jasmine is really giving it laldy at the moment!

    Several heathers

    Wallflowers (those that haven't blown out of the ground!)

    Cyclamen coum

    Primula wanda & others

    Primroses

    Witch hazel

    Viburnum bodantense Dawn

    Sedum spectabile - horizontal but still red!

    Lamium (the mainly white leaf with purple flowers)

    Pansies, various colours

    Osteospernum Springstar Magenta- 5 flowers & loads of buds

    Scabious, pale lilac, tatty but flowering

    Anthemis Tinctoria EC Buxton (the one I forgot to cut downimage)4 flowers

    Sweet William, just a couple of stems

    A small creeping ranunculus has 2 tatty almost gone flowers

    Clary sage has a couple of purple bracts

    Achilleas have a few flower heads left

    The Chaenomeles Rubra & Pink Lady are not actually out but the buds are really fat

    The cineraria has lots of buds showing yellow but none out

    Finally, the wide bowl of autumn crocus of which about 20% flowered in the autumn has 1 plant with a hint of purple thinking about coming through.

    A few bulbs here & there are poking through the ground & those in troughs & pots are up a couple of inches or so -it'll be a long time before they're out!!image

    Not a sign of flowers on my Gautheria, but lots of berriesimage

    Gosh!!image

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    We've got an amazing collection between usimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • I have been away until today, but it has inspired me to go and look around my garden, once the rain stops blowing horizontally across it image

  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

    This post made me look more closely at garden and today I noticed these

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     It's a clematis called ------------Bell I think. It's the first year it has flowered so feel very chuffed with it

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