A massive happy new year to you all and a great colder start it is as well. The first few days here in Hampshire has seen the mercury drop down to -5c, bringing the coldest snap of the winter so far, lets just hope we get a few days of this to kill off the bugs that were everywhere after last winter. I don’t know where the time has gone since Christmas, I had so much planned to carry out over the Christmas break but I don’t seemed to get too far with it all, but thats life.
The garden is slowly coming to life isn’t, so many bulbs are sticking there little heads above the ground. Some of these little further coming delights will be in flower very soon and doubt will feature very soon on the six on Saturday theme.
until then, I hope you enjoy these six
Adding mulch to the borders is such an important job in any garden and once I have done the first winter tidy up, I like to add the mulch soon after. This particular mulch is pretty new for me and I will be giving it ago during the next 12 months and seeing what happens
Well that’s my six done for this week, I hope you enjoyed them and if you would like to see more, please go to the excellent Mr Propagators site and there will loads more on offer
I will give next weeks a miss but I will be back in two weeks with more six things that are happening in my own garden, until then, take care and happy gardening
You’ve got me wondering where my snowdrops are now. I lifted and divided them in the green last year and am hoping I didn’t kill them off.
Three of our neighbours have the most wonderful prostrate rosemaries and I am planning to take cuttings this year and wondering how long it will take me to have a healthy specimen of my own.
no they will be fine 🙂 just good strong plants aren they. ohhh thats the best way to get them free 🙂 will take a few years to get to a good size but well worth the wait
No sign of my snowdrops yet. I love the primrose and Edgeworthii looks very interesting. Not one I’m familiar with so I’ll do some research.
its well worth a look, the leaves are quite magnolia like but the scent from the flowers is just incredible. the hope they appear soon 🙂
I wondered about my snowdrops too! You know me…love a good snowdrop but I didn’t plant any new ones as I kind of forgot! doh.
I love the Edgeworthii; a shrub I don’t know but is intriguing.
Happy new year to you Thomas. X
Happy new year Sophie, I hope you are well and had a good Christmas
oh yes you can’t beat them at this time of year or indeed any time of the year, I am sure they will appear soon, I think its because I grow them in pots maybe?
its well worth getting to know it, it does take chalky soil as well
No sign of our Snowdrops yet though we did see some in flower at The Eden Project last week. The Primroses have hardly stopped flowering all winter so far – it has been very mild, only recently, like where you are, going down to 5C.
Happy New Year to you.
oh I love the eden project, remember seeing some diffs in flower there in early December 2017, beautiful place. I hope they soon appear, this mildish weather will help them along won’t it
a very happy new year to you as well
So this is the beginning of the snowdrops. I remember that just about everyone wrote about them last year.
I got some of my own, although they are just Leucojum aestivum. I don’t know where they came from. They are the best snowdrops I got.
lol yes they are well loved here 🙂 ahh we call them snowflakes over here, so beautiful aren they
ummm. . . . yeah . . . . beautiful. Fortunately, I like white. Because there is always something blooming here, neither snowdrops nor snowflakes are overly important. Someone already explained to me that they are snowflakes, but I got into the habit of referring to them as snowdrops. Besides, it gives me something to brag about until someone corrects me.
Your snowdrops are beautiful and early! Nothing here because mine are still in the ground (on the lawn). I only have to wait a bit.
Beautiful ( and useful !) bird feeders that help you observe the birds and maybe add them to your collection.
thank you Fred, it maybe the pots I am not sure, most of mine are coming up rather well at the moment, I fear they maybe finished before any snow arrives let alone melts. I hope yours start appearing soon, thank you I shall enjoy seeing any that come in 🙂
Do you keep your double primroses in pots all year round? I’ve tried some in the past but they didn’t make it through the summer months.
I do well try too, I have nearly lost the gold edged ones sadly but the others seem to be doing rather well, especially that one for some reason
No sign of my new snowdrops yet, still snuggled down under the lawn. I must get some bird feeders although I worry about the cats. Lovely Six.
thank you fella, lol I don’t blame them, I wish I could lol, we haven’t had any joy on the feeders yet but it does take a while I think to get them used to them being there
Is your Edgeworthii the Rhododendron? Love to watch shrb flower buds swell in the spring! I wish I could find a source for the multitude of Galanthus varieties you seem to have in Great Britain – we only seem to get two or three choices here…
thats a shame about the snowdrops, I know of a few suppliers here that can supply abroad if the paperwork is sorted, costs a bit though 🙁 yes it does look a little like a rhododendron but is indeed a suppurate sp, related to Daphnes I think…..