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What flowers in February?
Some of the ornamental cherry trees flower around now (weather dependent). Otherwise pansies are a good bet, if you're okay with an annual. Maybe hellebore, or a cyclamen? Walk around your neighborhood in the next few weeks, and see what is in flower in your area.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
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How about February Gold daffodils?
Sounds like a lovely idea. I have a little oak tree grown from an acorn to remember my Mum - OH even bought it a special pot for me as a Christmas present.
Or a Mahonia...in flower now and should be for the next few weeks. Perhaps surrounded with snowdrops and early daffs. What a lovely way to remember your Mum.
Lonicera fragrantissima or purpusii, both flower now and are wonderfully scented.
Sarcocca, Christmas Box, again flowering now and highly scented.
Daphne bholua Jacqueline Postil ditto.
How about camelia ? I've got one in flower in my garden at the moment, and saw loads in flower at Savill Garden the other week. Sorry to hear of your loss, my whole garden is a memory to mine
My dwarf apricot tree flowers in February
I am sorry to hear that you lost your mum and have been feeling so low since. If you have a small space to plant up a Daphne aureomarginata has a wonderful scent and pink flowers and looks good with snowdrops underneath. In a larger area, Lenten roses tough out the worst weather and promise better times to come. Winter honeysuckle or box are pale and understated but mahonia makes a bright sunny splash of colour. As you begin to recover your spirits, your new plants will help you to remember your mum with pleasure, rather than grief.
The other flowers I saw at Dunham Massey last weekend were snowdrops and miniature iris along with witch hazels together with the stunning dogwood colours - beautiful and a last reminder of a dear loved one
I would certainly consider one of the scented winter flowering shrubs mentioned above and then under plant it with some choice hellebores, snow drops and cyclamen. It should be a pretty harbinger of spring each year to lift the spirits
Its my mums birthday then also. She got married two days after her birthday, and would have been married 60 years this month, if my dad had lasted another 3months.
She is going away that week with my sisters. I have planted the flower bed under the front bedroom window with spring bulbs, hellebores and alliums. They get the morning sun, and should be in flower when she gets back.
I forgot cornus! There is one with masses of tiny yellow flowers just now - beautiful. My witch hazels are past their best by mid Feb. so have a look locally if you fancy one of those. They are lovely and trouble free if they like the site.