What's happening in your garden?

[Houseplanter]

I walked down our garden earlier for the first time in 2 or 3 weeks and surprised to see so much coming to life already.

Lots of bulbs peeping through.. I think daffodils, and my clematis and iris both have new shoots, which seems really early to me.

Apart from that there's not much happening.. birds are still feeding from our tables and feeders a lot (DH feeds them daily) and we have lots of squirrels who are also enjoying the fat pellets and nuts.

What's happening in yours?

Nothing,it's a rain sodden,soggy mess. Cant bring myself to feel even a tiny bit enthusiastic about it.

One of my terracotta pots is cracked!

Mahonia is flowering.

Oh so much. Cyclamen in full bloom, daphne about to go again, hellebkres are blooming, there's even a rose in flower. Also the polyester are flowering as are the pansies. The daffs are poking through and the muscari and hyacinths. The Holly berries and winter jasmine have been prolific this year. That's just the front! I need to have a good walk around the back garden to see what's going on there.

Stuff has blown everywhere. The cushions have been left out by mistake. Ditto a sunbed. Some of the paving stones have come up. The ‘lawn’ is a muddy mess and it all looks a bit bleak!

BUT - there are signs of life popping up and I am holding on to that hope!

Waterlogged pots mainly. There are couple of late blooms on the roses and spring bulbs are peeking out. Hydrangea and azaleas have a random few fresh blooms...2023 summer crossing over to 2024 spring. Guess that's global warming?

Nothing here either 😔

Just grass, weeds and moss 👎.

Looking forward to tacking it when the weather improves but I don't really know what I'm doing!

Lawn is a bit wet so will deal with that in the spring, doing anything now will turn it into a quagmire.
Planted several hundred daff bulbs in November and quite a few are poking through but hopefully they will go back to sleep when (if?) We get some more frosts.
Other than that the shrubs & trees are asleep awaiting the onset of spring, I wander around every few days and have a little tidy up what with all the strong wind recently.
Only a few regular birds but I keep them well fed and hopefully more will come when the garden is more established (recent build).

My camellia came into flower yesterday I have winter Iris in flower and the witch hazels are just coming out too . Lots of buds on the Christmas box and the first snowdrops aren't far off . Mahonia is full of flowers too . The rest of it is a soggy mess but it was planted with lots of winter interest.

I noticed some shoots poking through about a week ago,so exciting!

Lots of soggy leaves. Mostly from neighbouring trees.

I had an enjoyable tidy up yesterday when there was patchy sun and mild temperatures.
We have planted daffodils into pots so waiting to see those.
The bay tree is ok it stays green all year round and can be shaped.

Same, all my bulbs are going great guns, even in the north facing bit which gets no sun and it’s been constantly damp.

Going to order myself a couple of bare root roses and pre order an apricot for my front garden.

I have a load of bamboo left by previous owners which I need to clear out at some point. It’s right next to a couple of nice fruit trees, so I hope I can get it out without killing them.

Not much, I did go out and sweep the patio/sweep up the broken pots and compost after last week's storm. One of my umbrellas had blown over and the pole looks a bit bent. Really hefty steel thing with a massively weighted base. Fortunately all my covers stayed on everything.

I was hoping to tidy up, top up compost and sweep the leaves while I am off work but that won't be happening given the current forecast.

I did notice buds on my honeysuckle.

Geraniums madly in flower. Cyclamen ditto - and some anonymous shoots popping up.

I’m going to feed everything cos the plants need it.

Winter flowering jasmine is really going great guns up the rose arch! The best it's ever been since I put it in about four years ago. Philodelphus seems to be budding, and the gravel garden I planted at the front (because previously it was a 'pot' garden which suffered horribly with drought) is floating but the sempervivums and sedums are starting to spread. We're north of York though, so not expecting much in the way of bulbs yet.

Cyclamen, winter jasmine, winter honeysuckle and hellebores all blooming, sarcococca about to flower, some odd roses still producing flowers, bulbs shooting through everywhere - in fact the first winter aconites are just opening with snowdrops only a few days away too!

Been clambering about in my apple and pear trees today, pruning, and, if it stays dry, will run the mower over the lawns tomorrow, just to nip the top off.

Polyanthus and primroses flowering under the hedges and wild arums showing through everywhere!

Life is returning!

Well this has cheered me up no end!

I really want to improve the winter interest and you're giving me some great ideas

Having had a little wander at the front, the agapanthus is poking through too, and the bloody bluebells are making their presence felt. If there's a patch of dry in the next two days, I must prune the final rose and tidy the dahlias. Nothing on the clematis yet. As for snowdrops, I plant bulbs or in the green every single year and still no success. Snowdrops here seem doomed.

I meant also to add, what a lovely thread.

Rhubarb shoots appearing, winter jasmine flowering and a nuthatch, pied woodpeckers and all the tits going mad for the bird nuts.

My snowdrops look like they’ll bloom very soon.

Everything else is basically a muddy mess

Spent the day laying a new path and got to have a good poke around! Camellia started blooming on Christmas Eve but much too high to appreciate and is slowly popping out all over, lots of bulbs up hellebores just starting and roses still putting on a little show. Garlic is also doing really well, broad beans and winter peas have finally popped up too (thought the mice may have had them!) and rocket seeds have popped through in the greenhouse.

Lovely thread, so nice to keep check on all of the changes especially when the weather is so bleugh!

One out of three camellias is flowering. Two of three hellebores are. My clematis Freckles has had a few flowers but is growing nicely.

Other than that it’s a soggy clay-soaked mess. All the cyclamen have died, no matter where I live I have no luck with those. It just looks awful!! No bulbs are coming up yet, boo

Chickens are taking advantage of free ranging most of the week, while we've been off work, to scratch up the lawn. They're concentrating their efforts in a patch by one of the borders, which I'm taking as a sign that i should widen it and put in more plants

Bulbs are sprouting everywhere.
My Holly, which was laden with berries, hasn't been completely stripped.
I've still not planted my garlic, and the garden is too swampy for me to traipse up the end to do it.

But excitingly, I have two snuffly hedgehog visitors who come each night. One was small so I've been fattening them up and it has worked. He's now plumptious, and ready to hibernate should he wish.

I have lady of Shallot rose shrub with small apricot bud like flowers on, a purple kind of wallflower that has literally flowered all 12 months ( Bowles Purple ? ) My blue pin cushion scabiosa plants have only just stopped flowering and today l noticed l have small pink flowers peeking through on saxifraga. All of my rose shrubs have new little shoots appearing which makes me think l should have pruned them earlier.