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The "Here Comes Spring" thread...what's showing its floral face where you are?

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FuzzyPuffling · 28/01/2019 13:05

As above.
North Cornwall, costal and on a hill.

My garden has snowdrops and primroses out. The camellia (aptly named "Cornish Spring" has pink buds but no flowers yet (it's not a particularly early one) and today I found two Iris Reticulata in full flower in a trough.

Despite yesterday's gales and snow forecast later this week, I believe Spring might be on it's way.

What have the rest of you got going on?

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florentina1 · 28/01/2019 18:26

My London Garden is nuts. Leaves have not fallen from the roses, clematis are already budding and my ornamental grasses only went over in the recent snow. Lots of buds emerging too. Is is sooooo exciting

FuzzyPuffling · 28/01/2019 18:54

I love the early Spring when it all starts coming to life again (even if the snow floors it for a while). Such a positive time of year. Some of my clematis have fat buds on as well; not the Montana, the large flowered ones.

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elephantoverthehill · 28/01/2019 18:59

I've got snow drops, primroses, winter jasmine, cyclamen, the 'tete a tete' are just about to break into flower and weirdly a few marigolds.

HesterShaw21 · 30/01/2019 02:39

Corsican hellebores and Mediterranean spurge in my garden. The spurge is very impressive!

Coffeeandcrochet · 30/01/2019 08:00

Snowdrops and cyclamen are out and crocuses in bud. Until about 10 days ago I still had some nasturtiums flowering! Lots of leaf buds on the deciduous shrubs too Smile

Coffeeandcrochet · 30/01/2019 08:03

Next door’s geraniums haven’t stopped flowering all winter either, though this week’s cold snap may see to that!

FuzzyPuffling · 30/01/2019 10:38

My friends have just donated a big clump of rhubarb to me (hurrah...mine died in last year's cold snap - I thought rhubarb was indestructible) so I have planted that out - it has several leaves already.

And the crocuses are flowering now. Mostly "Cream Beauty", a pretty soft yellow one, but a few dark purple ones are ready for a bit of sun.

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livingthegoodlife · 04/02/2019 20:22

Just a few tender buds of rhubarb. Almost nothing else showing signs of life yet. My poor lawn is sodden and mossy.

userxx · 05/02/2019 13:12

A few daffodils are coming through, I cant wait to get out into my garden!!

Squeakyheart · 05/02/2019 13:27

A garden near me has its own microclimate as it's daffodils are out. One year they had roses and daffodils flowering on Christmas Eve! Currently I have snowdrops hellebores daffodils starting to push up. I'm in North Yorkshire

FuzzyPuffling · 05/02/2019 13:37

I've got quite a few Iris Reticulata out now and they are gorgeous. A really good blue. They're near the front door so I can appreciate them properly!

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yamadori · 07/02/2019 17:36

My snowdrops are out, and the rosemary has been in flower since November (weird).

I've a couple of sorbaria plants in pots that are really pushing out new growth, and my three different varieties of chaenomeles all have buds showing colour. Ornamental currant is on the move too.

Buds starting to fatten on larches and red hawthorn, and I notice that the grass is growing - and so are the weeds Shock

MrsBertBibby · 09/02/2019 09:01

Surrey Hills

Primroses and mauve crocuses are getting going. Snowdrops of course. Some primulas, although the bloody wood pigeons eat all the purple ones.

Really need a proper mooch up the garden,

Pengling · 12/02/2019 13:17

I've got a few daffs and crocuses just coming out now, and my rosemary is in flower, much earlier than usual and clearly undeterred by the recent snow!

FuzzyPuffling · 12/02/2019 18:30

The blue tits are beaking the buds off my willow tree and chucking them in the ground. Why do they do that?

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