Fresh flowers for the New Year
It's always good to get out in the garden (rain permitting!) in the darkest days of winter and take my annual flower count. The blooms may be smaller, but they're a welcome sight and there's always a few surprises.
This year's count stands at 12: not my best result, but there were signs of plenty more waiting in the wings. This year we have:
- the pictured rosemary - now reclassified as a member of the Salvia aka sage family, though I'm sure it'll keep its familiar common name, This is a great plant to have flowering for any bees venturing out at this time of the year
- 3 different kinds of winter flowering clematis - Clematis balearica, Clematis 'Freckles' and Clematis urophylla 'Winter Beauty'
- Single snowdrops a-plenty - Galanthus nivalis
- Strawberry 'Just Add Cream'
- Primrose 'Cottage Cream'
- Double flowered hellebores, but no sign of the Christmas rose
- Violas
- Erigeron
- perennial cornflower
- Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'
Other hellebores, winter honeysuckle and daffodils are in bud; there are some tulip leaves, but no sign of the crocuses.
A Happy New Year to you - what's flowering in your garden?
A Happy New Year to you - what's flowering in your garden?