WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN FEBRUARY 2021

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WHATS LOOKING GOOD IN JANUARY 2021

 

I'll get around to taking some photos, tomorrow I hope, but just seen some Eucomis pop up in the greenhouse . They hadn't come through two hours ago but are popping up through the surface now

 

Prim and proper

 

I'm not sure there are many things looking good in the garden. Most of the garden is tatty and needs a lot of work done on it.

A lot of the double snowdrops are now opening but most of the singles are still to open.












Still trying to open early


Sarcococca is now sending out a very strong scent
Pink




White


and grows quite bushy

 

The lawns look fairly good from a distance


But close-up I'm not sure you could call it a lawn. It should really be called a moss


One advantage is that I've just found this bee orchid in it




Dark leaves can look good

Pittisporum tenuifolium


Ophiopogon


The pot has got a bit overcrowded - we have dozens of different varieties and all need thinning. We give away a lot of babies




Maidenhair fern is beginning to perk up

 

Cyclamen go mad in our garden and spread everywhere. In the Spring these will just get mowed. Any friends are welcome to come and dig them up


In the same area of lawn we have the underground pipes that go through this section to the soakaway for our cesspool . The taller plants are allium siculum that we dig out and sell for the charity. The snowdrops have suddenly appeared so some people may get free Shiney bonuses.


More self-seeded cyclamen that are going to have to go as I can't get the mower through








Artichokes are just coming up and need a good tidy up










Still lots of moss to get out of the flower beds

 

The Cyclamen spread like rampant weeds and are quite invasive in our garden. In the last three years they have travelled well over 100ft from their original bed .

It's a large garden and takes a lot of work nowadays

The picture of the largish lawn with the moss takes up about a quarter of our front garden. I have to get someone in nowadays to cut the hedges, prune the fruit trees and do the heavy digging and we don't keep things in as good condition as they used to be.

 

They certainly do!