Garden Gallery 2023

Papi Jo

Here's the sequel to Garden Gallery 2022 which ended with our gardens covered in snow and some spectacular pics of hoar-frosted plants.

I am opening this new Garden Gallery with some more frosted specimens pictured this morning...

Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Variegatum'

Echinacea purpurea 'Js White Prairie'

Skimmia Japonica 'Rubella'

Cornus hongkongensis

Dorycnium Hirsutum 'Fréjorgues'

Pieris japonica 'Cupido'

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Loxley

Nice pics! I have sown some seeds of Dorycnium Hirsutum this winter, Papi. (Known to me as Lotus hirsutum, naughtily collected from Sissinghurst). Do you think they'll come up? I have left the seed trays outdoors to naturally germinate in spring.

Perki

Some very interesting ice formations on the Acer Winter flame 



Hamamelis Jelena 

First Snowdrops 

Papi Jo

Loxley said:

Nice pics! I have sown some seeds of Dorycnium Hirsutum this winter, Papi. (Known to me as Lotus hirsutum, naughtily collected from Sissinghurst). Do you think they'll come up? I have left the seed trays outdoors to naturally germinate in spring.

Thanks! Your seeds of D. hirsutum should germinate all right. Actually my current 2 specimens are re-seeded from the original specimens. The seeds tend to travel a few metres away from the plant, and I have collected and given away quite a few specimens found on my lawn!

pitter-patter

Cheerful signs of spring. Crocus ‘Gipsy Girl’

Papi Jo

@pitter-patter Striking colours and stripes!

Some February pics taken this morning.

Pearl-tree bush just starting to show its "pearls".

Helleborus 'Glenda's Gloss'

Little garden scene with actors: Narcissus Tazetta ‘Paperwhite Ziva’, Phormium 'Dark Delight', Geranium renardii and Dorycnium Hirsutum 'Fréjorgues'...

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
I went out into my garden
Armed with my Pentax K3 III camera
When all at once I saw a crowd spied with my little eye,

A host clump of golden daffodils snow-white narcissus.

William Wordsworth papi Jo

steveTu

Garden photos.... Not mine I should add - I wish...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-64472234

B3

Gilding the lily - some of them 

Plantminded

No bulbs in flower here yet but the Euphorbia are gearing up for their flash of lime green - not subtle but cheerful!

 

Busy-Lizzie

The garden at OH's cottage in Norfolk was very bulbless, apart from some Spanish bluebells, and had been rather neglected when he bought it 4 years ago. For various reasons he lives in England and I live in France, we met in later life. I've done quite a bit of re-planting and bulb planting in the Norfolk cottage. At last I have some result from my snowdrop planting a couple of years ago. I have planted more recently but they are too small to show. 
Two sorts.