@GardenerSuze your brother's photos are stunningly beautiful. Thanks for the link.
We have just left my garden in Dordogne, France, and come to OH's garden in Norfolk. The earliest daffodils in Dordogne were about an inch tall and it all looked very wintery. In Norfolk the daffodils are about 6 inches tall, the snowdrops are showing white buds and the roses and clematis still have some green leaves. Dordogne, so much further south, is often colder than Norfolk in winter, there was even some snow before Christmas and the fields have been white with frost.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
First snowdrop here today too, and the first primrose.
Are they actually flowering Jenny? I can't see any of ours even showing I looked in Sheffield Botanical Gardens last Friday and couldn't see any sign of theirs either.
I'm amazed that @Balgay.Hill has got them out already way up in Scotland!
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border - where old gardeners often wet their plants.
I have grown a snowdrop called Galanthus Reginae olgae it likes a sunny spot. Sadly it disappeared some years ago but it was in full bloom Oct/Nov every year. Snowdrops do have different flowering times but most flower in winter.
RETIRED GARDENER, SOUTH NOTTS, SOIL CLAY
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In last years mild winter the snowdrops were already in flower now. This year we have had a month or more of cold, up to -5 and never more than 4 , so no sign of them yet. There are the daffodils , some even with buds, and an odd early tulip leaf above ground. So it's odd no sign of snowdrops .
Snowdrops are usually February here, so I haven't seen any yet, but there are quite a lot of big daffs with tips showing in various gardens. I have some here and there. I spotted a little bunch of dwarf daffs in a pot beside a front door yesterday when I was out, and I think I might invest in some for this time of year - I can fit them in beside other evergreens or similar for a burst of colour until the crocus etc take over.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Busy-Lizzie So pleased you enjoyed the photos. It suprised me to know it has been so cold in the Dordogne. You have returned to the wet and pasteurised milk not sure if that is a blessing or not!
Snowdrops are just showing their white tipped flowers here. Only a couple of weeks and the days will be longer.
RETIRED GARDENER, SOUTH NOTTS, SOIL CLAY
A garden is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty.
First snowdrop here today too, and the first primrose.
Are they actually flowering Jenny? I can't see any of ours even showing I looked in Sheffield Botanical Gardens last Friday and couldn't see any sign of theirs either.
I'm amazed that @Balgay.Hill has got them out already way up in Scotland!
One snowdrop flower showing - ordinary G. nivalis, one flower on the wild-type primroses and quite a lot on Wanda (she's always early). Also got Cyclamen coum in flower as of yesterday afternoon after the sun had been on them.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We have one snowdrop in flower, quite excited. It's not the one that usually flowers first which is a bit puzzling. They seem very behind this year. I've been trying to get out and give the clumps a high potash feed but it's been far too wet lately.
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We have just left my garden in Dordogne, France, and come to OH's garden in Norfolk. The earliest daffodils in Dordogne were about an inch tall and it all looked very wintery. In Norfolk the daffodils are about 6 inches tall, the snowdrops are showing white buds and the roses and clematis still have some green leaves. Dordogne, so much further south, is often colder than Norfolk in winter, there was even some snow before Christmas and the fields have been white with frost.
Are they actually flowering Jenny? I can't see any of ours even showing
I'm amazed that @Balgay.Hill has got them out already way up in Scotland!
A garden is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty.
Dan Pearson
I spotted a little bunch of dwarf daffs in a pot beside a front door yesterday when I was out, and I think I might invest in some for this time of year - I can fit them in beside other evergreens or similar for a burst of colour until the crocus etc take over.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Snowdrops are just showing their white tipped flowers here. Only a couple of weeks and the days will be longer.
A garden is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty.
Dan Pearson
One snowdrop flower showing - ordinary G. nivalis, one flower on the wild-type primroses and quite a lot on Wanda (she's always early). Also got Cyclamen coum in flower as of yesterday afternoon after the sun had been on them.