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What’s flowering in your garden?

55 replies

Koulibiak · 31/01/2025 18:10

I’ll start 😊

my Dutch lasagne pots are beginning to look interesting. I’ve got 3 types of crocuses, and Iris reticulata frozen planet. All are a bit ahead of schedule, but I’m in London and they’re in a warm spot.

The irises are especially pretty, a very pale blue and delicate.

OP posts:
Beetrooty · 01/02/2025 10:41

Crocuses
The camelia have buds ready to go
Mahonia

RosesAndHellebores · 01/02/2025 10:45

Hellebores
Daphne
Polyanthus
Cyclamen
Winter jasmine
Viburnum
Crocuses (almost)
Winter pansies
Rosemary

The bulbs are galloping and the camellias just need a sunny week.

MereDintofPandiculation · 01/02/2025 15:06

Add to my list above primrose, snowdrop and Crocus tomasianus

(I did my monthly photo record of the garden this morning)

MereDintofPandiculation · 01/02/2025 15:08

Nannyfannybanny · 01/02/2025 10:40

Ooh,I'm jealous,,! Hellibores, primroses, polyanthus, cyclamen. Sarcacoca ,isn't quite out yet,winter pansies,A rose "blue by you". If you asked in a week! I gave up on bulb lasagne because you've got to leave the daffodil foliage for 6 weeks and it looked so scruffy.

The way round that is to use some of the smaller daffodil species that don’t have such large and floppy leaves. Or, of course, leave out the daffs entirely

Hedjwitch · 02/02/2025 10:41

I dislike hellebore. They look as if they are plastic and faded by the sun. Like old plastic flowers in graveyards.( sorry,hellebores).

Nannyfannybanny · 02/02/2025 14:53

My hellebores are beautiful,they don't look plastic at all. Annoys me the way they all face downwards though. I want to see the flowers! Daffodils in the lawn are almost out.

Koulibiak · 02/02/2025 15:19

Thank you all! I’m going to use this thread for inspiration to zhuzh up my garden and add some winter interest next year.

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StartingOverIn2025 · 02/02/2025 17:25

Absolutely naff all at the moment. I'm sure I planted snow drops, crocus, grape hyacinths, tulips and narcissus a few years back, none of it has materialised. Don't know what I did wrong!

Nannyfannybanny · 03/02/2025 12:41

Startingoverin2025, quite early for daffodils, mine are just emerging, I don't expect to see the tulips for another month or more. I plant everything (apart from the daffodils in the lawn,) in pots because we have heavy clay soil. I also don't want to feed the slugs.

Yamadori · 05/02/2025 16:52

Rosemary - it's been in flower since early November.

Strawberries - they are well confused!

Snowdrops.

MissMarplesNiece · 06/02/2025 18:13

My crocuses are in flower now.

DelphineFox · 06/02/2025 18:18

Snowdrops, hellebores, violas been blooming all winter.

ClodHoppers · 06/02/2025 18:22

All my winter flowering heather and it's so beautiful I love it

My bulbs aren't yet for 2 reasons - 1 we have a north facing garden so it takes a little longer but the sun has just come back (start of Feb it gets over the house!) and 2 the dog has decided I love the plants too much and spend too much time with them so he has been 'helping' with the gardening by digging them up

Hotafternoon · 06/02/2025 18:37

3 snowdrops that I planted last Saturday.

KohlaParasaurus · 06/02/2025 18:51

Just a handful of yellow crocuses so far. I think some of the naturalised daffodils will be out before the iris reticulata.

North West England.

InMyMNEra · 06/02/2025 19:07

Snowdrops

Camellia, I can almost see the colour of the buds

I saw my first daffodils today (not in my garden)

AlmostCutMyHairToday · 06/02/2025 19:12

Nothing in my garden, but today I walked past (what I think is) a deep blue Anemone Coronaria in flower - does anyone have this in their garden? Is it evergreen? From what I can find it's not meant to be evergreen, but it was very leafy and flowering. We're in London.

AlmostCutMyHairToday · 06/02/2025 19:13

Hedjwitch · 02/02/2025 10:41

I dislike hellebore. They look as if they are plastic and faded by the sun. Like old plastic flowers in graveyards.( sorry,hellebores).

They really creep me out! Really sinister vibes for some reason, like they have no soul.

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 06/02/2025 19:14

Snow!

TinyMouseTheatre · 06/02/2025 21:45

Even my hellebores aren't out yet! In their defence we have a North facing garden in the North West of England.

HarpieDuJour · 06/02/2025 22:00

Hellebore, polyanthus, crocus,dwarf daffodils, muscari, iris reticulata and the hazel bushes have catkins too.Oh, neatly forgot that my Fuchsia Mrs Popple has some very out of season flower buds about to open. I'm in the Western Isles.

longtompot · 06/02/2025 22:22

Winter flowering honeysuckle
Jasmine
Primrose

stayathomegardener · 06/02/2025 22:24

I am a Galanthophile so about 20 different varieties of snowdrops including doubles, scented, giant, tiny, green tipped, and yellow.

Winter aconites, cyclamen and crocus.

Mistletoe.

Hamamelis both yellow and red.

Winter honeysuckle
Heathers
Sarcocca
The odd flower on various camellias. Cornus mas is just starting.
Catkins on hazels twisted and otherwise.

Many varieties of hellebores
And yesterday I noticed a lonely dandelion flower.
I must have a purposeful walk to look properly tomorrow.

DeanElderberry · 07/02/2025 15:41

Galanthus woronovii was in flower before Christmas, there are lots of different forms of G nivalis either in flower now or on the way. Crocuses, Cyclamens, Pulmonaria, (blue and 'soldiers and sailors'), a short creamy comfrey, a pink form of the wild primrose, purple sweet violets, Alpine strawberries, a few daffodils, (lots more on the way), Iris unguicularis, Winter aconites, Leucojum (aestivum and vernum), Lonicera fragrantissima, Viburnum tinus and xBodnantense, white and dark blue Vinca major, Euphoria (robbiae and wulfineii) loads of Hellebores - Christmas and Lenten rose.

Big fat buds on the Magnolia stellata, one solitary bright red flower on a Chaenomeles

Not a meg out of Bergenia, Forsythia, salmonberry, my Kerria japonica has been almost wiped out by blight and might not survive, Camellia has buds but no flowers yet. And of course, even with that long list, it's a flower here and another flower round the corner of the house or at the far end of the garden. Except the snowdrops that are pretty much everywhere.

It's turned cold now which is good - slow it all down a bit.

Ireland - mid west.

TinyMouseTheatre · 07/02/2025 18:33

I am a Galanthophile

That sounds like the kind of opening statement you'd made at an addiction group! Grin