Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.

"Janet" wrote in message
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Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.


In our tiny garden ...

Alstromeria, red and yellow.

Hesperantha coccinea

Meconopsis cambrica (Welsh poppy)

Leucojum sp. (Snowflakes in full bloom.)

Red Patio Rose

Zonal Pelargonium "Doris Moore" (an old variety)


--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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"Janet" wrote in message
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Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.


best I can do is vinca major

Janet wrote:
Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Got fuchsia and pels still in flower, new seedlings of mimulus are springing
up between paving near the pots that housed them, the adult mimulus in those
seem to have put on a new spurt of growth.
I saved a few hundred seeds of these in the summer but I now get the feeling
I'm going to be over run with them without trying.

I don't mind stuff like this growing between paving, I've ended up with
dozens of clumps of forget-me-nots that have self seeded, so the blues and
yellows next year should look OK.

One side of my (90% paved) garden has half a dozen medium sized shrubs, each
planted where one stone has been removed.
Last year I had the bright idea of sprinkling some 'wild flower mix' - 50p
from one of the cheapo shops - all around each shrub.
The results were stunning, purples, yellows, reds and blues all at different
heights and shapes, almost all of these left masses of seeds behind so I've
a feeling next year should be interesting, given that it seems every seed
that blows in takes a hold between the paving stones.

still got lots of Verbena growing vigorously but no flowers, don't know
whether to put them in the greenhouse or throw them.

Chilli pepper that I sown in October now over a foot tall (indoors) - I'm
trying to get it well established ready for summer - greenfly always wipe
mine out before they reach this height when I start them off in spring

Hello Chris

In article ,
Chris Hogg wrote:
Surprisingly for this part of the world (well UK, anyway), very
little! The odd Camellia japonica flower, and Hypericum Rowallane has
a few flowers and that's about it.

What is also surprising, despite reports of daffodils, snowdrops etc
coming into flower early elsewhere, they're only just pushing their
noses up above the ground down here, which is no different to other
years.

That is surprising I have definitely got a lot more than that. I am planning
to do a survey on Janusry 1.

John

--
John Rye
Hadleigh IPSWICH England
Web Site http://www.ryepad.plus.com
--- Using RISC OS on a Strongarm RiscPC, a Raspberry Pi, and emulated under Windows ---

On 26/12/2015 12:15, Janet wrote:


Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.

Didn't get round to looking until today. Nothing with any great amount
of flower, but there are flowers on

Abutilon megapotamicum
Anisodontea malvastroides
Campanula persicifolia 'Alba'
Erysimum cheiri
Grewia caffra
Kerria japonica
Lithodora diffusa
Malva x clementii
Malva subovata 'Bicolor'
Meconopsis cambriaca aurantiaca
Muscari armeniacum
Vinca minor and Vinca minor 'Alba'

--
SRH

On 28/12/2015 17:37, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
On 26/12/2015 12:15, Janet wrote:


Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.

Didn't get round to looking until today. Nothing with any great amount
of flower, but there are flowers on

Abutilon megapotamicum
+ Abutilon 'Kentish Belle' (I didn't look carefully enough at the
Abutilons)
Anisodontea malvastroides
Campanula persicifolia 'Alba'
Erysimum cheiri
Grewia caffra
Kerria japonica
Lithodora diffusa
Malva x clementii
Malva subovata 'Bicolor'
Meconopsis cambriaca aurantiaca
Muscari armeniacum
Vinca minor and Vinca minor 'Alba'

On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:15:53 -0000, Janet wrote:



Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.

Must be global warming, the end of the world is nigh!

--
My memory sucks, so I changed my computer password to incorrect. That way if I forget it, it tells me "your password is incorrect".

We were in Anglesey Abbey (Cambs, not Wales for those who don't know)
and there were a few snowdrops out, together with some hellebores.

They have a lot of different snowdrops, these may have been special ones.

Andy

On 29/12/2015 20:35, Vir Campestris wrote:
We were in Anglesey Abbey (Cambs, not Wales for those who don't know)
and there were a few snowdrops out, together with some hellebores.

They have a lot of different snowdrops, these may have been special ones.

FWIW, I saw a couple of snowdrops flowering in a garden down the road
earlier today.

--
SRH

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:45:26 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

On 29/12/2015 20:35, Vir Campestris wrote:
We were in Anglesey Abbey (Cambs, not Wales for those who don't know)
and there were a few snowdrops out, together with some hellebores.

They have a lot of different snowdrops, these may have been special ones.

FWIW, I saw a couple of snowdrops flowering in a garden down the road
earlier today.

Some snowdrops showing a bit of white at Stourhead yesterday, but
didn't see any properly 'out'. But then, I didn't walk all round the
lake, avoided the noisy kids by heading for the woods, where there
were very few people around.

----

Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border
on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades.

In article ,
cotula wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:45:26 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:
On 29/12/2015 20:35, Vir Campestris wrote:
We were in Anglesey Abbey (Cambs, not Wales for those who don't know)
and there were a few snowdrops out, together with some hellebores.

They have a lot of different snowdrops, these may have been special ones.

FWIW, I saw a couple of snowdrops flowering in a garden down the road
earlier today.

Some snowdrops showing a bit of white at Stourhead yesterday, but
didn't see any properly 'out'. But then, I didn't walk all round the
lake, avoided the noisy kids by heading for the woods, where there
were very few people around.

I have very little out that you wouldn't expect, but there was one
flower on the Vinca major when I cut it back, and several Anemone
blanda have flowered in the past few days.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
cotula wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:45:26 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:
On 29/12/2015 20:35, Vir Campestris wrote:
We were in Anglesey Abbey (Cambs, not Wales for those who don't
know) and there were a few snowdrops out, together with some
hellebores.

They have a lot of different snowdrops, these may have been
special ones.

FWIW, I saw a couple of snowdrops flowering in a garden down the
road earlier today.

Some snowdrops showing a bit of white at Stourhead yesterday, but
didn't see any properly 'out'. But then, I didn't walk all round the
lake, avoided the noisy kids by heading for the woods, where there
were very few people around.

I have very little out that you wouldn't expect, but there was one
flower on the Vinca major when I cut it back, and several Anemone
blanda have flowered in the past few days.


I have a dandelion in full flower in my back garden.

Not by design

On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:15:53 -0000, Janet wrote:



Hellebores (white and purple)

Pink hebe

Fatsia japonica

Alstromeria

Schizostylis (red and pink)

Ceanothus.

Fuchsia

Lavatera (pink)

Hydrangea

Eucryphia

Janet

Isle of Arran, West Scotland.


I'm a bit further south!
I can equal the 2 colours of sshizostylis and several hellebores.
Have a wall basket with bacopa still blooming and surfinia trying to!
Also a white argyranthemum, (the grey leaved white daisy), in a pot on
my patio! also ipheon in a pot and the garrya eliptica looking really
good.
Just waiting for a frost!!!
Pam
Flowers on rosemary

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:02:03 +0000, Pam Moore wrote:


I'm a bit further south!
I can equal the 2 colours of sshizostylis and several hellebores. Have a
wall basket with bacopa still blooming and surfinia trying to! Also a
white argyranthemum, (the grey leaved white daisy), in a pot on my
patio! also ipheon in a pot and the garrya eliptica looking really good.
Just waiting for a frost!!!
Pam Flowers on rosemary

Well this is another strange winter so far, if that parses. Only one
frost and that was spotty. Some like cyclamen or nandina which would
normally be flowering are not, (though the nandina has many more berries
than usual), some others are really early (or late), daffs are 6-8 inches
high but I haven't seen a crocus up yet. Here's from a quick tour on Jan
1 (if I saw flowers, I wrote it down!):

'Paper Narcissus' daffs
Rosemary
Parsley
Fuschia
Snowdrops (lots and lots)
Geraniums
Iberis
Lavender (just some remaining shoots that haven't set seed yet)
primroses (cultivated, the wild are up but not blooming)
viburnum x bodnantense
berberis darwinii
kerria japonica
Field mint (Mentha arvensis)
Erigeron karvinskianus (Mexican Fleabane, mostly still going strong)
various hellebores
pieris japonica
Roses (a few here and there)
Chaenomeles (full of flowers)
Violets
Hazel
Laurel and Bay are nearly flowering, the laurel has set tall spiky buds.

Pam you remind me to try and plant a Garrya this spring.

-E



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Gardening in Lower Normandy