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?

A lot. Two mahonias out (M. Lionel Fortescue and M. 'Charity) as well as winter viburnum. Hellebore 'Early Purple' has been in flower since early December. The other hellebores are all in bud. Rhododendrons are covered in buds - it's going to be a spectacular rhodo year. Pulmonarias are in bloom and daffs and snowdrops are not far from budding up. Daphne bholua, grown from seed collected fromEast Nepal in 1997 has one two flowers already out and scenting the air. It'll be covered in pale pink waxy flowers over the next few weeks.
Various things are still flowering from summer- Roses: 'New Dawn' and 'Kent' and there's an implausible amount of sweet rocket in flower -it seeds itself everywhere. Bizarrely too there's a rhodochiton still going in a sheltered spot, despite a week of sharp frost before Christmas.
Funny old year (as always, one way or another.)

My compost is composting. The leaves we chucked on have really shrunk down.
There are loads of twigs all over the lawn from our massive tree. They got blown down in the storm.
The mahonia is smelling wonderful.

It's mostly soggy and bare but the sage continues to try to take over.
The forsythia looks like it's growing bud shapes.

Broad beans and garlic growing. Little spring green cabbages and perpetual spinach plants still alive. That's pretty much our veg planting over winter, to give us something in spring/early summer.

Right now I have snowdrops and hellebores springing to life. My grasses giving me lots of winter interest also. My front boarders are plants up mainly for winter/spring so I have something beautiful to look at when it’s cold and wet!

As little as possible. My lawn is a quagmire. Never known it this bad

If I can make the treacherous journey across my sodden lawn I'd sow some early seeds in the greenhouse

Cyclamen coum , scented Viburnum bodnantense, winter flowering cherry, winter jasmine, Viburnum tinus, witch hazel, winter flowering honeysuckle all in full flower, hellebores, mahonia, Cornus mas on their way, lots of primroses flowering. Front garden full of berries - skimmya, Pernettya (white and pink), yellow holly berries (and the few red berries not yet eaten by thrushes). Winter bark of snake bark maples (green and white stripes), winter stems of dogwoods (yellow and red) and white Rubus cockburniensis.

Lots of bulbs coming through, the snowdrops i can see the white of the flower on some. It's odd....

And birds everywhere 😁

It's a sodden mess. The rosemary is thinking about putting out a second flush of flowers, the first lot from October nearly having finished.

I have a rose bush with one solitary flower.

Quite a lot of my deciduous shrubs are showing fattening of the buds (GO BACK TO SLEEP YOU IDIOTS!) and my Chinese elm bonsai has put out some new bright green leaves .

A lot of green slime but also a lot of green shoots! Daffodils and snowdrops are all starting to come through. Some shrubs never even lost their leaves.

My lovely hydrangea planted earlier this year looks like a load of old twigs, assuming dead. Any hope it might be ok? was planted in a nice big space as was hoping this year it would be a lovely feature. Will investigate what is alive tomorrow was too upset about the dead one to pay more attention!

White camelias just beginning, daffodils poking up, something with pink flowers I don't know the name of, some pansies, a few roses hanging on for dear life, hydrangeas showing beginnings of new leaves.

Other than that wet, squelchy, soggy

A swamp covered in snow. Very bleak at the moment.

Hydrangeas are deciduous, they lose their leaves in winter. Wait until spring, and then look lower down the stems and you will see new shoots emerging. I leave all the old stuff on mine to help protect from frosts, and then cut back to new growth in spring.

Solid mud in the borders, grass very long, wildlife pond full right up with water. Not much colour apart from some primroses.

Lots of bulbs coming up both garden and in pots and my gorgeous Daphne has lots of flowers but getting beaten to death by wind and rain. 🙁

Lawn flooded, pond overflowing. But the tete a tete daffodils in a pot at the side of the back door are starting to shoot, and there are green tips in the early boarder, which gives me hope.

Hellebores in bud, the odd snowdrop poking through, and the iris Pauline and ranunculus Pauline I planted in the autumn are showing their faces too (my late mum was a Pauline).
Had a tidy up of the little front garden yesterday, planted in some very late allium bulbs, and mulched with something called Strultch that I’m hoping will keep the slugs and snails away.

Lots of bulb tips coming through.
Cyclamen up but not yet flowering.
Mahonia in full bloom - smells like furniture polish to me!
Winter jasmine has been firing on all cylinders since November - right through the heavy frosts.
Rhubarb tips appearing with some stunted leaves. In my veg patch foxgloves, primroses and borage? plants all look set to take off as soon as weather permits.
Bird feeders mostly attracting sparrows, wrens, tits and something black and white - pied?? something!

In Australia, so summer and hot!

Growing and harvesting:

lettuce
tomatoes
eggplant
Capsicums
Cucumbers
beans
Passionfruit
lemons
limes
mandarins
Pumpkins
Parsley
mint
Chillis
Rosemary
Silverbeet
Beetroot
Kale
grapes
dragonfruit
rocket

In between edibles are:

Salvias
Roses
Queen Anne’s Lace
Succulents
Violas
Zinnias
foxgloves
Geraniums
Daisies

And a few natives!

Weeds, brambles and more weeds.

We're in Cumbria. Had a rose develop new buds early Dec and our cherry laurel hedge plants are growing like mad there has been no slow down..

What bulbs can I plant now if I've been a bit disorganised?

i tried lasagna planting in pots in our north facing garden, they have been waterlogged for ever … but lots of green shoots poking up threw the cyclamen
. Also , I got over excited and planted over 100 sweet peas way way before Christmas. Then panicked as green house not heated … but they’re all thriving 🙌🥳. Still got some beetroot in and chard . Eyeing the roses to prune , did front half about a month ago . If the sun comes out before I go back to work I’ll skip out as DH has just had an op and I think a bright day sat on the bench with a coffee would do us both good 😊