Nothing much here - two hellebores which I'm not really counting as they were new this year and I suspect flowering out of kilter for my garden (the rest are in bud)
Best flower is a small flowered yellow wallflower and I also found a lone but perfect Erodium flower this morning
An old friend up from Devon was marvelling at my robust carnations in flower and the odd calendula. Greatest surprise for me tho is a trailing lobelia in the cold greenhouse that's been in flower since June. It's survived 33F. Plenty of shrubs in floweer, but too wet to look today!
I have found 2 types of mahonia, Viburnum tinus and bodnantense Dawn. Lonicera fragantissima, Witch Hazel, sweet violet, Pulmonaria, Helleborus foetidus,Polyanthus,Erigeron karvensis profusion, Corydalis lutea, sweet rocket. Wild flowers, Daisy and white dead nettle. Quite amazed and several others heavily in bud but not actually out in flower. Good fun.
Hellebore shooting star. Lots of buds on other hellebores , but not open yet.
a single flower on each of a white Pulmonaria, and a Dark pink form.
Catkins on Garrya elliptica James Roof.
Viburnum bodnantense Dawn.
In greenhouse, Pineapple sage is still flowering, but s it went down to minus 2.6 C with the heater on, I suspect I will have lost a lot of stuff. The banana plant looks like its had it.
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The same down here BL, we did have some roses but they have given up now.
Nothing much here - two hellebores which I'm not really counting as they were new this year and I suspect flowering out of kilter for my garden (the rest are in bud)
Best flower is a small flowered yellow wallflower and I also found a lone but perfect Erodium flower this morning
An old friend up from Devon was marvelling at my robust carnations in flower and the odd calendula. Greatest surprise for me tho is a trailing lobelia in the cold greenhouse that's been in flower since June. It's survived 33F. Plenty of shrubs in floweer, but too wet to look today!
I have found 2 types of mahonia, Viburnum tinus and bodnantense Dawn. Lonicera fragantissima, Witch Hazel, sweet violet, Pulmonaria, Helleborus foetidus,Polyanthus,Erigeron karvensis profusion, Corydalis lutea, sweet rocket. Wild flowers, Daisy and white dead nettle. Quite amazed and several others heavily in bud but not actually out in flower. Good fun.
Mahonia charity
Bergenia
Escallonia
Fatsia Jap
Kerria Jap
Hellebores Argutifolius & Anna's red
Polyanthus
Viburnum Eve Price
Iberis sempervirens
Viola
Polyanthus
Forsythia (2 flowers)
Carnation one miserable wet flower
9C here so might have daffs & tulips by this afternoon
Been out again, still too frosty. Here are some of my poor little frozen violas and some frosty purple sage.
The Under Gardener and I have found the following flowers blooming:
Lawn daisies - bellis perennis
Viburnum Bodnantense 'Charles Lamont'
Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'
Rudbeckia 'Rustic Dwarves' !!!
Heliborus x ericsmithsii 'Snow Love'
Sarcoccus confusa
violas - blue and orange
Vinca major
Hesperis matronalis (sweet rocket)
Campanula portenschlagiana
Clematis viticella 'Venosa violacea'
Cyclamen coum
Hairy bittercress
and in bud:
Lots of hellebores, snowdrops, primrose 'Wanda' and Rosa Bonica
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Better than expected,
Nonea lutea
Euphorbia ceratocarpa
Scabious, pale yellow,
groundsel
Lamium album, white deadnettle
Viburnum, pink and scented, no ID
Rosemary
Daisies
Cyclamen coum
Daphne mezereum 'Album'
Campanula portenschlagiana
Symphytum grandiflorum
Helleborus foetidus
Lamium maculatum
Pulmonaria rubra
Liriope muscari
Sarcococca confusa
Choisya ternata
Mahonia x media, 2 cultivars, one is 'Charity'
Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'
Oryzopsis miliacea
Geranium macrorrhizum
Lonicera purpusii
Forsythia
Viburnum lantana
Eleagnus ebbingei
Hesperis matronalis
Hebe 'Midsummer Beauty'
Hellebores, a few, not many yet
Chimonanthus praecox
Viburnum rhytidiphyllum
Hazel, male catkins
chrysanthemum or whatever we call them now, a sad looking pink
Erodium pelagonifolium
Iberis sempervirens
Antirrhinum
Iris unguicularis
In the sticks near Peterborough
still got a lot of snow, but
Nuts Cyclamen coum (in pot but outside)
a single flower of purple Hesperis matronalis
double pale purple primula
Hellebore shooting star. Lots of buds on other hellebores , but not open yet.
a single flower on each of a white Pulmonaria, and a Dark pink form.
Catkins on Garrya elliptica James Roof.
Viburnum bodnantense Dawn.
In greenhouse, Pineapple sage is still flowering, but s it went down to minus 2.6 C with the heater on, I suspect I will have lost a lot of stuff. The banana plant looks like its had it.
Oh and a couple of mouldy raspberries, I'm leaving for the Blackbirds since they had most of the others anyway.