Whats Looking Good February 2025

The lovely Algerian Iris. Never as floriferous as 'Walter Butt' but such a lovely colour

 

Lovely @noisette47 - I have a plant here (next to an aristea which flowers so conditions should be right) but it does nothing. I think I'll move it to sit in pure grit!

I can't remember which violet this is

Galanthus Galadriel - gorgeous shape but slow to multiply

Primrose Warburg

 

Hellebore "Tutu" has just started opening its flowers.

 

Some of the hellebores are coming out.

 

Let the yellow commence... Apart from Hellebores and Chaenomeles, it'll be yellow everywhere for a while...it's worth it for the perfumes, though!

Hamamelis


Gelsemium.

 

February masquerading as May …




Tutu is an excellent name for that one, @Escarpment.

 

My two dwarf Azaleas are starting to bud and bloom ...

 

Camellias
1 St Ewe
2 Bob's Tinsie
jenny namaste

 

Sweet Box
such a beautiful perfume


jenny namaste

 

Anemone blanda

Double hellebore

Galanthus plicatus "Wendy's Gold"

Galanthus "Moortown Mighty"

Galanthus elwesii "Grumpy" only the first year of flowering and it can take a couple of years for the markings to settle down.

 

Flowers still in fairly short supply here but a few things in bloom here now:

Sarcococca in flower but too windy to get the fragrance:


Viburnum tinus:


Primrose with some snow drops


Crocus


Hellebores



Also posted a video of some of the blooms in the wind earlier today.

Happy gardening!

 

Loved the rows of Snowdrops

 

@Jenny namaste, that is exceptionally neat grass you have there. Mine looks a right scraggy mess, so much so I am thinking of finally taking the plunge and getting the last two small sections dug up. It was all grass and nothing else when I arrived and gradually, as I’ve needed more room for plants, its area has shrunk and shrunk.

 

Only a stage stamp sized lawn - not worth owning a mower .
Fake , the one the Emirates choose as it is the most natural .
jenny namaste