Confused plants.

Although too wet underfoot for the planned work I did notice that I have the following flowering lobelia, calendula, nigella, Scilla hohenhackeri, S mischtshenkoana, Ipheion "Tessa", Cantua buxifolia, Salvia darcyi, S * "Amisted", S involuctra, S guaranitica, S curviflora, S microphylla and several hybrid hellebores. To my mind all of these are either early or late. Not complaining just commenting.

 

I was in my own garden this morning, and noticed flower buds on my viburnum. I havent a clue if these are early or late either. It does seem funny to see buds when there are no leaves on it.

 

Some of my plants have buds on the stems, other's like my bottle brushes the leafs have gone a pale green and the front one have lost stems from the snow...this weather is knocking our flowers about bad, so god knows how next year and the flowering will turn out

 

Makes a change from you hiding in other peoples

 

Gibasis pellucida is almost in bloom............
Gibasis pellucida by longk48, on Flickr

That is surprising as despite supposedly only being hardy down to 5 to 10°c this native to tropical South America has been kept just frost free over the last few weeks.

 

@longk it's madness how it's up setting our plants

 

I have a canterbury bell and echinacea still in flower, considering pruning them off to 'give them a rest' before Summer flowering as I don't want them to exhaust themselves

 

@Mark56 It sounds a good idea it me, as it's something I would do with the time of year and how the weather is but other members will give you a lot more sound advice