4 flowering things in my garden today!

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Iceberg Rose -raved about by Charlie Dimmock. Planted Winter ‘21 & has been flowering for months now.
Clematis Jingle Bells-winter flowering & recommend for the bees. First year flowering.
First snowdrop-the first of 100’s.
A couple of early flowers on the Forsythia.

I can’t wait to start planning & planting. I’m hoping for a bumper year for my Dahlias.

Camellias are in full flower in my garden at the moment. Such a lovely thing to see on a grey day 🥰

Oh I’m jealous of your flowers OP.
I have a virburnum that’s been flowering since November which is absolutely beautiful.
I’ve got one pot I planted a bag of mixed crocus bulbs in but for some reason only the yellow ones have come up so far.
I’m cross with my camillia. It’s been in the border for six years and it has never flowered. Not a single bud again this year.

Same here, the camelias look amazing this year. Our new flowering cherry is beautiful too - tempted to buy another. A few cyclamens but not as many as normal for some reason. Some crocuses are in flower and the first two daffodils are about to pop out, otherwise not looking great sadly, need to get out there and cut out a lot of ivy and brambles.

I planted so many spring bulbs last autumn and am like a child checking everyday to see if anything is flowering yet. So far I have about 5 crocuses and a single daff. It is not the impressive spread I thought it was going to be! None of my snowdrops have done anything and I planted about 100 crocuses 😭 I'm very jealous walking around and eyeing up everyones lovely flowers in their garden! A house down the road from me has 100s and 100s of snowdrops and they are just so beautiful!

Hellabore. Just moved and owning my first big garden. Excited to see what comes up.

Some dwarf iris in a pot that I'd completely forgotten about. Minature cyclamen that was an impulse purchase before Christmas and is still flowering. A few flowers on the Virburnum and lots of shoots.

One year I tried listing all the flowers out on 1st Jan, then on 1st Feb. Had to give up on 1st Mar - there were too many!

I took some pictures the other day, snowdrops and some winter irises there, some crocuses are out too and then I have one tiny daffodil thinking about flowering so far.

Every year I plant more bulbs, hoping to get to the point where I have lovely drifts but I think there's a lot more planting to go.

My snowdrops were planted from dry bulbs rather than in the green though, so I think I'm just pleased they exist at all.

I've got snowdrops, crocuses, the pink viburnum fragrens, hellebores, winter iris and wintersweet.

I cut a bunch of wintersweet and now the sitting room smells fabulous.

Viburnam "Dawn"
Daphne "Jacqueline Postil"
Crocuses - yellow and white so far
Prunus Beni-Chidori
Cyclamen coum - crimson
Eysyium "Bowles Mauve" - practically flowers all year round
Hellebore - dusky pink single and dark burgundy single

I can't remember anything else from top of my head (it's dark out, so can't check).

I've got lots of spring bulbs in leaf in my windowboxes and pots which came through in the early winter, but can't remember what they are till the flower buds appear at some point soon.

can't grow wintersweet for the life of me (grown in dappled shade). Currently waiting for my edgeworthia chrysanthus to flower.

@Nachtvlinder I used to live in a chalkland village and wintersweet wouldn't grow. Now I'm in a nearby valley on silt and I have to take a billhook to the roots to stop it spreading.

I have this tree flowering profusely on the edge of my garden and yesterday it was covered with bees. It really felt like spring here.

I think it’s a wild cherry, but not 100% sure as Google tells me that doesn’t flower until April 🤔

At this time of year it will be either cherry plum Prunus cerasifera or blackthorn Prunus spinosa. Probably the cherry plum which is a bit earlier than blackthorn. Both are native

Wild cherry is Prunus avium, and you’re right, it flowers later.

Thanks @MereDintofPandiculation !

The hedge around my garden started off as an agricultural hedgerow, so there are a few things in there you don’t usually see in people’s gardens.

I don’t think it’s blackthorn (no thorns and no sloes). Cherry plum looks like it produces some kind of fruit as well, which I’ve never seen on it either. It’s possible that I just haven’t been looking close enough! I’ll try and keep an eye on it this year 😄

I help manage a nature reserve where we have blackthorn, wild cherry, and cherry plum. Of the three, only the wild cherry crops well. The blackthorn produces a good crop in some years. Admittedly I’ve never had an exhaustive look but I’ve not noticed the cherry plum in fruit.

At this time of year it really is between cherry plum and blackthorn (eliminating winter flowering cherry on petal shape). Cherry plum flowers earlier than blackthorn, can have a few spines, flowers may be before leaves or with them, new growth green. Blackthorn is spined, flowers always before leaves, new growth dark, almost black from a distance, hence name. Stace puts the distinguishing difference between them as the difference in colour of first year shoots. Sepals of cherry plum are reflexed, ie bent backwards, those of blackthorn are flat against the petals.

I have a cherry plum. Fruiting is variable; sometimes a fair amount, sometimes barely any. The birds usually take most. Nice fruit when we do get a look in though. No sign of blossom yet on mine.

My cherry plums are not quite out (we're fairly northerly), but we have had quite decent fruit from them last year - I didn't weigh the amount but enough to make chutney.

I thought of this thread today as I saw the first daffodil is out! Tete a tete in a window box, so warm and sheltered, but it is a lovely sign.

Is the scent as good as they say, though?

Yes, a heavy very sweet scent