Tell us what is in flower or what is at its best in your garden this week/month.

JANUARY
At the moment I have a lovely patch of Hellebores. Some are the usual Christmas roses and some are the mauve ones. Ive never managed such an impressive show from these before, but cant claim the credit, as they were here when I moved in and just popped their heads up for Christmas. I must read up on them so I know how to encourage them further.

My snowberry, whilst not in flower, is looking really impressive laden with white berries. Apart from that, things are a little disappointing! I am also thinking of things I planted in my old garden which would be at their best: a Winter Jasmine, a Mahonia and a witch hazel.

My winter pansies are a disappointment this year. When I grow them from seed I tend not to get flowers during winter even though I get proper winter pansy seeds. But when I buy them from the garden centre, they always flower. Ive no idea what Im doing wrong there!

Indoors, Ive had a lovely show from one bowl of hyacinths and another is coming along to replace it. I plant about 5 bowls in autumn, leave them in the garage, and bring them into the house one by one. I also have a bowl full of yellow crocus on the windowsill. I read somewhere you cant force yellow crocus, but this proves them wrong. I usually get my bulbs from Wilkinsons, but this year I bought half from Wilkos and half from Loxley garden centre. I thought I would see which came up best.

Will post some photos later.

Please add your contributions and brighten up the dull winter days.

I've got a couple of Ox Eye Daisies in flower and also some violas.

The daffodils and alliums are pushing through, but I don't expect flowers until end February.

I can't wait for Spring to arrive.

I've got hellebores and Cyclamen Coum coming into flower,but my best at the moment are two highly-scented flowering shrubs,Viburnum Bodnantense 'Dawn' and Sarcococca Confusa.

The shrubs sound lovely. I think I had a viburnum with a few flowers last month. Are they small pink flowers on the ends of bare twigs? I had been calling it Daphne but that might be another name for it.

That's the one.I bought it years ago in a plastic sleeve from Woolworths,and it's now about 8ft tall,and fills the back garden with scent.The sarcococca is a small evergreen shrub with tiny scented flowers,which I've got outside the front door,with some daphnes which will follow on in March.Most garden centres stock these plants.I think the key with winter-flowering stuff is to have it near the house,so you don't have to tramp down the garden in bad weather to enjoy it!

I've got some plants still flowering from summer, like cornflower, and some cyclamen still going.

Also have loads of Iris and Crocus coming through, a few snowdrops. The Iris are very close to flowering now with the crocus just behind and the snowdrops are surprisingly lagging.

Last year I did "all year round hanging baskets " In the summer I have trailing bedding plants in,and in the Winter small pink cyclamen,and trailing ivys .

I have a small window box full of white cyclamen. Lots of work needed in my garden before next winter. :roll:

We have got crocus ready to flower and daffs on there way. Our senico sunshine is still flowereing from last year as is the passionflower.

Crocus (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/alysonpeaches/gardenjan08001.jpg)

Christmas roses (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/alysonpeaches/gardenjan08002.jpg)

Lenten Hellebores (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/alysonpeaches/gardenjan08004.jpg)

At last, the rain stopped long enough for a couple of photos.

I have my Iris flowering now! I can't believe it, surely that's much earlier than normal?!?!

I knew they were growing a lot recently... But figured it'd be another few weeks or more before they flowered! Haven't even managed to get them into their proper pots yet - still in tomato pots temporarily, bah.


Edit * The bulbs are outside, I haven't forced them into flower for indoors.

We have lots of things flowering now, snowdrops and pansies and... other things, I cant remember their names but theyre very early.

I've still got a penstemon in flower!

Otherwise only winter-flowering jasmine.

I have a single white rose in bloom on my patio

I have a couple of chrysant bushes in full flower, some primulas (yellow ones only!) 2 miniture roses which have not stopped flowereing all year, a winter flowering jasmine and believe it or not a fuchsia (which should be in the greenhouse) which has been flowering since the end of the summer.

Strangely enough I still have a nicotiana still in full bloom:huh:

I have quite a few snowdrops and you can see the yellow on the daffs....................

FEBRUARY

I have discovered clumps of snowdrops under the privet hedge, which cheered me up no end!

My tete a tete daffodils are flowering (but only in the tubs!)

Not strictly flowers, but my hardy fuchsias are showing new green leaves.

And I have a gorgeous vase of 12 red roses on my windowsill!

February

My rose bush has some very small buds on :) and my clymatis has nice new green leaves

My bulbs are just long green shoots - does this mean they are 'forced'? and if so, what does that mean? Next door's bulbs are all out and flowering!

japonica, pear tree, Clymatis is coming out too.

Daffodils, thought they were dead in the water after the snow but they've bounced right back up again.

Aquilegia all over the place in my garden at the mo.

Aquilegia is so pretty! I split mine over the wonter and both halves are thriving. I want different colours now - every colour, they are so pretty!

We have quite a few different species of flower blooming now but I dont know the names of them.
I plant them and throw away the identity tag and within an hour Ive completely forgotten what plant it is!

...and delightful osteospermum.

Got a few things in flower but mostly things are still buds...

Dicentra (three different varieties, one has millions of flowers on it!)
Aquilegia (three different varieties again)
Hardy Geraniums - a few varieties
Bellis
Viola
Allium - a few types
Oxalis - two types
Forget-me-nots
pinks
Marguerite

and the dreaded dandelions and buttercups!

I've got

aquilegias
violets (sweet and dog)
snakes head fritillaries
oxalis adenophyla
kerria japonica (the double flowered one that never seems to stop blooming)
and my pale pink tree paeony is about to come into flower- yay!

Oops forgot:

Masterwort (just about flowering)
Chives
Thrift
Weigela

My Fritillaries have been and gone :(

I would have bluebells too, if the dog hadn't trampled them all very comprehensively.

The bluebells have just finished in mine, and the flowers on both lilac trees are turning brown. The smell when they were blooming was really lovely.
Hardy geraniums
Aquilegia
Osteospermum
One lonely paeony
Oxalis
Pinks

We've been here 3 years, and are still in the process of organising and planting. We've learnt from past experience not to get rid of everything, but to wait and get a feel for whats already here.

Fantastic clematis flowers today - the rain seems to have given them a real boost, and about 7 opened this morning.

My wisteria is looking absolutely magnificent today. :)

My wisteria is looking absolutely magnificent today. :)

And so is ours, the July & February pruning did the trick and it's now flowering again.
The yellow flag has just flowered this weekend.

roses and clematis today :) and my busy lizzies are going mad

My sunflowers are looking promising :) SEE (http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/fox20thc/sun.jpg)

my roses looking great - blue moon and white christmas, wonderful perfumes, got these from horsfields nursery,silkstone, best place in yorkshire for roses

my passion flower has loads of buds still and one or two flowers and primulas are flowering

Bowles' perennial wallflower -It has been flowering non stop, for 18 months in a very exposed and windy, south facing garden.
We aso have passion flower with lots of buds but no flowers. So we have moved it to a more sheltered spot to see if it flowers next year.

I've got Bowles wallflower still flowering too, I seem to think it's been in flower since I planted it couple of years ago. The winter flowering Jasmine is looking really good at the moment.

Magnolia, red azalea and red camelias on the wane, forget-me-nots, purple azalea, cherry tree, tulips, anemones, bluebells, rhodedendrons just starting to bloom, tree poppies ditto. Aquilegias budding. Is it me or is averything really early this year?

Forget me not's are lovely as they are covered in flowers all spring, and once you have them they seed themselves and don't really need any looking after.

I have noticed all the hawthorne (or 'may' blossom) seems to have flowered long before may!

Clematis Montana is flowering two weeks earlier than normal and it looks lovely.Hel.xxx.

my strawberries are started flowering

my strawberries are started flowering

Mine too! can't wait to taste them........ yummy!;) Hel.xxx.

lots of forget-me-nots, allium flowers, buckthorn and buckets of dandelions !!

at mement i got sweet williams loads of them doing really well this year,also foxgloves which have reached a height of 5 foot look very impressive,dont have much look we my roses though but never have any ideas anyone

I know this seems a strange thread to bring back up in the middle of November, but I can't believe whats still in flower in my garden at this time of year..
My Dianthus are still going strong, my verbascum and verbena still have plenty of flowers on them, plus my penstomon are still in bloom..
Does anyone else still have summer plants in flower now ?? If so, what are they ??

Roses are still going strong, busy lizzies have only just stopped flowering this week, think the frost the last couple of nights finally killed them off!

Some of my Hollyhocks are flowering still! Also my osteospernum is battling on.

Got pansies and that's about it!

I got some yellow primrose, they is gorgeous and very very early.

Unbelievably, I've got a (common, tall) gladioli out at the moment! It looks as if the frost & snow has got it, the petals are rather translucent, but it does stand out well against the white snowy background!!

Hi,

This thread seems linked (sort of) to a thread I've posted about a project I'd like to organise (it's called Regional Growing Information Collection and is posted here but I'm a newbie in terms of posting, so I can't link to it).

Basically, the social bit of information sharing would stay in places like this - why duplicate, I have a full time job to do when I'm not volunteering for things like this! But, I'd like to organise information such as your garden blooms into an easily searchable place, so that gardeners looking for information on what grows well in their region can find it in a quick, organised fashion.

If you'd like to submit information similar to what's been submitted here to me that'd be great, I'm more than happy to come back on Monday and post what we managed to get done at the meeting I'm attending on Saturday.

Kind regards,

Hannah