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What's Looking Good February 2026

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  1. Plantminded

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    The first morning sun for February has lit up the grasses and bamboo in my lower garden. I don't mind winter days like this!

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      A few of our Dogwoods.

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      The one on the right of the picture was getting out of hand and affecting shrubs alongside so we gave it a hard pruning last year. There are now loads of root suckers coming up :doh:
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      A closer view below. So we shall carefully dig them out and pot them up for sale. The charity will benefit from it :thumbsup: I also dug out enough Allium nectaroscordum to fill two boxes but I don't need to pot those up as someone is coming round for them today.
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      Some of our grasses which we shall be cutting back when we have some conducive weather
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      Our pet dragonfly doesn't mind the wet weather
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        When we had to take down the greenhouse this was one of the ferns that was growing out of the paving inside. We have never put any of these ferns in there and the nearest plant is over 20ft away. We had a few of them in the paving and the seeds may have been brought in by cats who frequent the greenhouse. We have sold the other five that we removed.
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        This Maidenhair fern has recovered from winter and will soon bulk up again. It covers a good 10ft length of bed
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        The Cyclamen bed has its winter coat on and Hellebores and snowdrops are starting to take advantage of it
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        Arum italicum has now also spread itself to other flower beds from here. Mrs Shiney uses the leaves in flower arranging but we need to dig out a lot from other beds.
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        When installing our new greenhouse it came up bigger than the old one due to the difference between the Imperial and metric measurements of the glass. Although they still sell them listed in Imperial it came as almost 2ft longer. So we have to make a step across the front and needed to dig out plants from the bed by the door. That entailed digging out some of Hydrangea annabelle so we have put some here where a large tree came down - have also put bulbs in there - and have potted up the rest of the annabelle.
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        We also had to dig out some Cyperus alternifolius and have just placed six of them here. A neighbour will be coming with his wheelbarrow to pick them up and we shall dig up some other plants for him. He has a few barrow load's of plants each year.
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          This stem has flowered non-stop for over a year :scratch:
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          Rosemary is a bit shy today :heehee: . We need to do some cutting back.
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          The golden Euonymous always has some of its leaves turn red in the winter
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          The birds haven't got all the berries yet as there seems to be plenty of wild food around - and our bird feeders
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          Snowdrops are appearing everywhere
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          The stump of our contorted willow that had to be taken down the other week. We haven't decided whether to put a pot plant on it or, as it is in the herb bed, grow herbs around it.
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          This area is full of Daffs (donated to us) and the ground is too soggy for me to weed it yet
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            Our contorted Hazel has been pruned as it grows very fast
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            Yellow Witchazel
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            White Heather, some people come round for sprigs of it to bring them luck. No charge, except a minimal charge for those that sell them on.
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            Pink sarcoccoca
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            Trailing Rosemary has also been flowering nonstop for about a year
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              Yesterday was sunny so i took this pic again.
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                First daffodils are out.
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                  Has winter even hit your garden @Plantminded :heehee: still looks crisp and full of life .

                  I like the grasses with the evergreen background @shiney , surprised the dogwood has sent suckers out like that I've not seen one do that before. The Hazel will very likely resprout . The witch hazel is looking well I've got Jelena an orange one but I think I should of got a yellow version it stands out better .

                  Haven't got much at the moment got a couple of pictures the other day few snowdrops the rest will be up soon.
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                    Thank you @Perki. I was thinking that it's looking its worst, but I haven't photographed those bits :biggrin:.

                    Your Hamamelis is stunning!
                     
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                    Thanks. What looks like green ground cover in the foreground is hundreds of Nigella. In most of the garden they quite often out compete the weeds!
                     
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                    My neighbour's Camelia :).

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                      @Perki cornus Midwinter Fire does that suckering. I had to remove mine as it was getting into other plants.
                       
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                      @shiney when the sun does shine the dogwoods just light up. Wonderful shrubs for winter colour.
                       
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                        Another Iris reticulata.

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                          Yet more!

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