NEW YEAR’S DAY FLOWER COUNT 2021

Papi Jo

Hi all fellow gardeners!

After considering the following:

- A for "An apple a day keeps the doctor away (if you aim well)"

- B for Brexit

- C for Covid-19

The NEW YEAR’S DAY FLOWER COUNT 2021 committee, consisting of papi Jo, me, myself and I, have unanimously decided upon the new rules listed hereafter.

1. The so-called "New Year's flower count" period shall be extended from Xmas (Dec. 25th) to Epiphany (Jan. 6th) included.
2. Any flowering plant observed or/and photographed during that period will be accepted in this thread.
3. Any state of "flower" will be accepted, viz. in bud, looking fine, looking dead, etc.
4. Flowering weeds will be accepted alongwith garden plants.
5. All of the above rules can be broken for any reason whatever and without incurring prosecution of any kind.

To illustrate the above I am pleased to open this thread with a pic of the first flower of my camellia 'Buttons & Bows' in bloom today.

Dovefromabove

🤣 👍 but I think I’ll wait until the ground is a bit less soggy ... hopefully 🙏 

B3

Reposted from old thread
Viburnum
variegated periwinkle
various penstemons
 white marguerite
a few sheltered osteospermums
 the odd rose dotted about
 pansies
 feverfew
 nigella
 gazania,
EBM ( one I missed when I was hoiking them all out)
cyclamen
The odd salvia,
two very hardy geraniums
 hawkshead fuchsia (one of my gall mite Lazarus plants)
that
Sounds better than it is. In reality,all are very tatty.

bertrand-mabel

Cyclamen

Primroses

Corn Poppy (stayed flowering since the summer)

Bugle

Daisy

Winter honeysuckle

Wintersweet

Winter Box

Salvia turkestanum

Anemone blanda

Winter jasmine

Clematis armandii

Clematis cirrhosa

Clematis montana (crazy as it started flowering again at the beginning of Dec)

Mahonia

Vinca minor alba

Fushia

Astrantia (different ones after deheading they are back in flower)

Hedera helix

Campanula (deadheading resulted in new flower spikes)

Bears breeches

Hellebores (different ones)

Algerian winter iris

Viburnum bodnantense

Viburnum tinus

Tradescantia (don't know the variety)

Marigold & Nasturtium (albeit in the polytunnel self seeded from somewhere)

Blue hydrangea

Not bad for going around the garden in my mind and picturing what we saw yesterday when we did walk around.

Makes you appreciate just what is in flower in these dark and cold months.

Thanks for the thread.

Papi Jo

That's a most impressive list, @bertrand-mabel . Where are you based?

bertrand-mabel

In the Somerset Levels UK.

Really enjoyed doing the virtual after yesterday's sunshine and now Storm Bella has been throwing rain here all day with the wind rising.

Again thank you for doing the thread. A good thing to focus on for a while.

LG_

Solanum laxum 'Album'
Helleborus niger
Erigeron karvinskianus 
Lobularia maritima (just about!)
Salvia 'Amistad'
Liriope muscari
Viburnum bodnantense
Bergenia
Hesperantha coccinea ''Alba'
Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Zaluzianskya ovata
Primula vulgaris
Persicaria 'Red Dragon'
Ricinus communis
Leycesteria formosa (OK, not flowers)
Calendula officinalis
Rudbeckia
Heuchera

This was Christmas Day.

bertrand-mabel

Very impressive and great photos.

Fire

Salvia 'Bumble' (being visited by bumbles)

Feverfew

Rozanne

Rose 'Ena Harkness'

Erigeron

Wall Flowers - 'Sugar Rush'

nasturtium

Clem - 'Freckles'

begonia

lobellia (doing pretty well)

Holly

Hellebores, including "Anna's Red"

snowdrops

cyclamen

alchemilla mollis

WorcesterPark

This marguerite tree taken on Christmas day is probably my best flower at the moment. I'm sure it will stop flowering soon but hopefully will survive the winter!

PurpleRose

I have one lone snow drop 

Verbena is still flowering just on one side of the plant 😂😂

Snapdragon

Crysanthamum