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My favourite colour of blossom or flower in the garden has got to be white. Although I’m sure some would say it’s not a colour. I have several plants and a tree currently flowering in white. I can’t name the daffodils sadly as there is no proper name on the label I kept! I also found a label for done gorgeous white tulips which didn’t flower last year or come up at all this time. 

Here they are: the magnolia featured in the last blog but it has improved since then and deserves another picture I think! Also pictured below is a dicentra (white bleeding heart), such a beautiful flower. I did have a pink one in the same flower bed but it’s disappeared this year!

Update – May 2017 another white flowered plant – Spirea Van Houti (probably spelt wrong) I have white foxgloves in the greenhouse too but as I sowed them as seeds it’ll be next year before they flower being biennials 

Just a quick post today. I just noticed my first tulips in pots flowering so thought I’d post my pictures. I think one of these is ‘orange emperor’ and the other ‘cilesta’ but I’m not aura which is which as one is open and other closed. I have a number of other tulips so will post them as they flower. 

Also 2 pictures of violas in pots, both with funny stories. The first pot has been on top of the water butt in the front garden for months and one day I went out and found the whole plant on the ground and the pot a few feet away. It turns out that storm Doris had blown the plant out! The other pot is actually primulas but violas have grown in there instead.

I am told it was the first day of spring earlier this week and it was so cold and wet, the garden couldn’t have been told about the season change! I love spring as every time I go in the garden I notice something different growing and in some cases flowering. It’s also a time when I can get out weeding, tidying and planning what to grow this year and if anything needs to move place.

I have a selection of pictures of what is currently flowering including some cute new daffodils called ‘minnow’. I hadn’t realised they’d be so small. Also a forsythia and magnolia and another hellebore. What’s flowering in your garden?

I have made this feature rather difficult for myself this month as I have been so excited to find new plants flowering I have been posting about them straight away. However, I am constantly finding new things in flower. This time it’s another paler pink camellia in the garden which is much older than the first one I posted and also a tree in the back garden which I can’t remember the name of which has lovely white blossom and looks great with a bright sky in the background. What’s in flower in your garden? 

On a day when it’s miserable and wet I have noticed some lovely spring bulbs flowering in my garden that I want to share with you, all yellow! Not really my favourite colour but so bright and cheery on a day like today! Firstly, the Tete-a-test in my wooden wheelbarrow that actually needs repairing but I have to empty it first. Then some crocus and finally more mini daffodils in troughs that have wallflowers in as well. 

Just a couple of pictures of my Camellia flowering in the greenhouse. I think it’s a variety called Debbie and I originally bought it for my late grandmothers garden that I planted last year but I fell in love with the pretty pink flower on the label so it stayed here in a pot and is currently overwintering in the greenhouse and I’m so glad I kept it. What do you think? 

Please excuse the bubble wrap, it’s protecting the plants in the greenhouse!

It’s been a sunny but cold winters day today but there is some colour in the garden to cheer one up. Many of my bulbs are appearing now and we even have a few tiny crocus flowering. My neighbour across the road whom I garden for in spring and summer has many crocus up but we’ve always said she has her own microclimate.

So, here is what’s flowering in my garden this month. A lovely hellebore that avoided being dug out last year (the leaves aren’t quite as diseased as the others) and 2 little primulas

A very quick blog today to show the first flowers to appear in my garden today – some baby iris.

So another year has finished and Christmas and new year celebrations ended. My trees will both be tidied away tomorrow for another 11 months or so – it comes round so fast can’t I just leave them out but not decorated! It’s not a job I enjoy.

This month is not a colourful one in my garden at all! Therefore my ‘what’s flowering in my garden’ post is a difficult one. I’ve got some houseplants including this poinsettia that we somehow managed to keep alive by putting it in the dark somewhere over the summer and it has a few red leaves 

A big thank you to my readers from all over the globe from America to Australia and in between. I had over 1,000 views of my blog last year. Please feel free to leave comments, share with friends, ask questions etc.

So during the summer months I am usually ready and chomping at the bit to show what is flowering in my garden that particular month. This month the garden is looking quite dead and nothing is flowering so I am using artistic license and showing my real Christmas tree that we’ve had outside in a pot since last year.

December is a pretty quiet month garden wise although I’ve been tidying up a a bit and sadly had to dig up and dispose of about 5 of my favourite winter flowering plants- hellebores. They have been diseased for a while and this is the only way to deal with it.

I probably won’t be blogging again this month so thank you to all my readers from all over the world. Wishing you a peaceful and happy Christmas and new year!