What's Looking Good In February

I've got to try, Sheal!! Climbers would not be any good as the roof has to rotate!!

 

One of my favourite Primroses

 

So long as you take on the job of watering them, Sheal I will be putting pots around the Observatory on the base, Sheal.

 

Sorry, these photos aren't focussed very well

The pansies are a bit battered by the weather and some of the baskets and pots have lost about 50% of their plants.







Hebes are beginning to perk up


Our large sarcoccoca bushes are smothered in flowers and berries this winter and the scent is very heady




The Exochordas have been flowering a little bit - completely out of season. They don't normally flower until at least April. The heavy frosts knock them back and then they start again. The seedpods are quite attractive


Variegated Cistus is looking good in the sun


And the heather is brightening up the garden. It's going to need cutting back this year as it's spreading like mad.

 

We have hundreds of the wild Hellebores (can't bend to photograph them properly )




And quite a few purple, white and green doubles






Crocuses are attracting the birds


Pulmonaria are keeping up their usual display but, for some reason are a bit slower than normal


Cowslips and primroses are also a bit slow and getting a battered, but are appearing everywhere in the garden


And the Witchhazel is coming along well

 

Coronella


Muscari




The snowdrops aren't doing so well this year. We have lots of clumps like this, that have just come up, but our very small snowdrops (miniature types) are hardly showing and the taller types haven't shown at all. That's, also, our first daff.


Rhubarb is doing OK (part of our rhubarb patch)


and artichokes seem healthy


I've spotted some of the Bee Orchids leafing up but they will stay just like that until early May


We're still picking a few chillies (not a lot but enough to eat fresh ones all the time) - even from the pruned back plants
Shiney Hybrids


Baby Nagas