Whats Looking Good February 2025

Ah ha! All becomes clear. Do you hoover it?

 

Hellebore 'Anna's Red'

 

Got a few crocus out, this was yesterday.

 

9 FEBRUARY - Christmas Cactus

 

A few snowdrops
These are growing in the grass

 

That really is “in the green”, @Logan.

 

the wild hellebores are in full bloom now They are really pretty and quite big. but seem to spread fast. we never planted them.
I think they must be drought tolerant.

 

Hyacinth in a jar

 

The snag with hellebores is they droop ..

 

Strelizia reginae ...


First of the Freesias to bloom ...


Hibiscus rosa-sinensis healthy after cold spells, budding but no blooms today ...


Raised patio ...

 

I planted a few purple crocuses around the dwarf palm in a lead urn on my patio a couple of years ago - not much space or soil but they seem to like it there, multiplying every year. The flowers are just appearing, later than usual because of the cold weather. I like the fact that a fern and some flowering mosses have arrived too, turning it into a sort of miniature garden:


Close-up view:


These arum leaves look so fresh and shiny:



The sweet box has grown a lot in the last year and will need cutting back after flowering. The flowers smell very sweet meanwhile - though the scent does always remind me rather of old-fashioned silver polish:


This white periwinkle was acquired as a cutting and has proved very useful as cover on a rubble bank where nothing much else wants to grow. It makes a good long-lasting cut flower too, and so far at least hasn't been too hard to keep in check:

And last but not least some snowdrops, amid dog violet leaves:

 

Galanthus elwesii monostictus

Hellebore seedlings

Sarcococca hookeriana I like the pink/purple tips on the flowers. Grown from seed in 2016. Has a better scent then S confusa.

 

My first Iris reticulata opened today. It doesn't look like any of the 5 varieties that I thought I'd planted!

 

A yellow hellebore. It's been a bit less robust than my others, but seems to have settled this year

 

One of the few advantages of a steeply sloping garden is having somewhere to plant the hellebores where you can see their faces from below!