You need some snowdrops and some of the earliest crocusses (is that the plural of crocus?) and some aconites. Then some sarcococca and winter honeysuckle and viburnum for scent. a few coloured stem dogwoods to show when it snows and you'll never be without something to cheer you up. Winter's lovely in the garden even if the days are short.
cheers, a couple of those I already have and a couple are new names to me so I will look them up, what I really need is a lottery win so I can retire and stay at home to enjoy them, with work I'm out at seven and not back til five so don't get to see much of the garden til the weekends at that time of year.
Indoor gardening sounds great Norm2, specially when the outside temperature is nearly freezing or it is too wet to be outside. I am trying to grow Hyacinths in glass jars too, because I found a couple under the sink, from long ago. Unfortunately mine have been on the kitchen windowsill from day one, so I am not sure if they will flower? The blue Hyacinth has a stronger root system than the white one, The perfume will be wonderful if they do manage to flower!
hope they do bloom for you as I said at the start I wasn't sure where mine should be kept, Agree on the indoor gardening, after a night of torrential rain the lawn was too saturated for leaf sweeping today, I figured I'd do more harm than good so went and bought an amaryllis and potted that, filled a need to do something horticultural.
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I can recommend retirement, age has some drawbacks but I wouldn't want to be out there in the working world again
In the sticks near Peterborough
As a commuting office working I'm the same as Norm2 - out at 7 and back at 7. I'm very envious of retirees
Indoor gardening sounds great Norm2, specially when the outside temperature is nearly freezing or it is too wet to be outside. I am trying to grow Hyacinths in glass jars too, because I found a couple under the sink, from long ago. Unfortunately mine have been on the kitchen windowsill from day one, so I am not sure if they will flower? The blue Hyacinth has a stronger root system than the white one, The perfume will be wonderful if they do manage to flower!
hope they do bloom for you as I said at the start I wasn't sure where mine should be kept, Agree on the indoor gardening, after a night of torrential rain the lawn was too saturated for leaf sweeping today, I figured I'd do more harm than good so went and bought an amaryllis and potted that, filled a need to do something horticultural.
My last day at work will be next Nov 5th - imagine the celebrations across the nation!!!
Lots of time for horticultural and foodie activities after that, and the theatre and music and reading books and sewing and painting and ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can you use any - that is - unprepared hyacinth bulbs?
No, preparing them is about making them think they've had winter. a chilling. They need this before they start growing
In the sticks near Peterborough
You lose nothing by experimenting and you may be glad you tried.