February Bloomers
Camellia
I don’t know the variety of camellia, but it’s a success story. When we moved in it was in a small pot by the front door. As the soil here is on the acid side of neutral I planted it out in the garden. From a sick, spindly, yellowing specimen it is now leafy and flowering. I should give it a bit of a supplement in a week or two though, it is showing tiny spots of chlorosis returning in the leaves.
Crocus
![Snowdrops 1 Wm[1]](https://i1.wp.com/www.rustyduck.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Snowdrops-1-Wm1.jpg?resize=1100%2C658&ssl=1 "Snowdrops")
There are still snowdrops drifting in some parts of the woodland
Hellebore
Mahonia aquifolium
![Primrose 2 Wm[1]](https://i2.wp.com/www.rustyduck.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Primrose-2-Wm1.jpg?resize=1100%2C736&ssl=1 "Primrose")
Primula vulgaris. Wild Primrose
Pulmonaria
![Daffodils Wm[1]](https://i1.wp.com/www.rustyduck.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Daffodils-Wm1.jpg?resize=1100%2C717&ssl=1 "Daffodils")
And Daffodils in bud, a taste of things to come
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How lovely to see – thank you. Nothing is really flowering here other than primroses and snowdrops. I have four different Lungwort varieties and none of them look even close to doing anything! Yours look glorious. x
It won’t be long Em, I’m sure! Most of these are only just starting to come out.
All we’ve got is a few snowdrops, but they make you feel spring’s here.
They certainly do, and it feels like we’ve been waiting a long time..
Thank you Jessica, your photos have really brightened up a very cold grey day here. Julie x
Thanks Julie. It’s been sunny here today but very cold too.
Beautiful! I can hardly wait to pick flowers from the ground instead of from the end of the aisle at the store! I’ll probably need to revisit you later this afternoon as we are in a winter storm warning here, expecting up to 24 inches of snow. I look out my window and all I see is gray, brown and white. it’s dreadful.
Pick a bouquet and enjoy them for me! 🙂
sarah
24 inches!!!! Good grief. Keep warm…
Beautiful! We are in spring bloom here too. Every spring I think,I should have planted more bulbs and come fall I usually do. There is no such think as too many flowers right?
Absolutely right! Enjoy your spring flowers. I hope the goats don’t nibble them!
So beautiful! Can’t wait to see some flowers here in Sweden too! 🙂
Make sure you have your camera ready!
It does your heart good to see the flowers coming, despite the dreary way ths winter seems to be dragging on. Lovely post.
Thanks Judith. I am just willing Spring to come now.. another icy blast coming our way before it does though. 🙁
I am suffering severe spring flower envy!! You are way ahead of us – all we have is a tiny clump of snowdrops and some mimiature daffodils!
The pheasant has pecked my Tete a Tete! Otherwise I would have included a photo of them as well…
I should have taken some photos while the sun was out and the temperature was high enough to wander around outside. Now it is so cold here and the wind takes the skin off your face! Next week perhaps…. I should have most of these out there somewhere in the cold and wind! Lovely to see them here.
It has become really cold here too now. Just when the ground had dried out enough to think about doing some weeding.
Dear Jessica,
Your photographs of the early Sring flowers in your garden are wonderful and so welcome on this freezing day !!!!
Snowdrops and hellibores are some of my favourite flowers ….. my hellibores are a little behind in flowering because our garden faces North but, I can see the flowerbuds just waiting to come out.
………. and many thanks for your lovely comment today. XXXX
I was going to go to a Hellebore Day at RHS Rosemoor this weekend, but if I do I think I will be wrapping up warm!!
You have a lovely blog Jackie, Jx
Blooming gorgeousness! I adore flowers, even more than cheese. We have a struggling primrose and a small bud on the willow arch here. Loads of bluebells popping up, but will be a while before we get the blue. Too cold…blue hands and toeses and noses only.
MMM Denise
Cheese is my weakness too. And Hot Cross Buns. And and and…
Keep warm Denise.
How lovely. We did a snowdrop walk last year with my mother who loves snowdrops. I am enjoying the tete a tetes I put in coming up
I planted loads of daffs last year, they are so cheery. I do prefer the smaller ones though.
all that loveliness so early!!! i had some hellebores budding a few weeks ago, but the cold weather has made them hunker down again. pretty funny to see the leaves hiding the buds—where before, the buds were reaching for the sun. a few daffs thinking about budding, but nothing yet. enjoyed seeing your early spring!
I hope you are not in the path of all the snow that has been forecast for some parts of the US.. brrr!
It is looking very pretty in your part of the world.
The snowdrops are out here and there are a few buds the starts of green peeping through. But no blooms yet!
I’m hoping they’ll survive the next icy blast, it was the warm weather earlier in the week that brought them all out. But at least it means Spring cannot be too far away. Can it?
Lovely spring flowers to cheer up the grey day outside my window. We have tried to grow snowdrops and helebores in our garden but they don’t like our very heavy clay soil, the mahonia seems to cope with it though. Lovely photos:)
Thanks Rosie. Ptolemy is my problem with hellebores – he snaps the flowers off. Doesn’t eat them, just casts them aside on the ground. Obviously they offend him in some way!
oooh…..you’ve brought a bit of spring into a chilly friday!!
Spring was surging ahead at the beginning of the week, all stopped again now!
Lovey photographs. Hellebores are a favourite of mine (although, to be honest, I love to see all the early spring flowers). I’m glad you had success with your camellia; the flowers are such a striking colour – perfect for a grey, gloomy day at this time of year.
Thanks Wendy. The camellias are really putting on a show in the garden today. I need to master cuttings; I’ve tried but never succeeded.
You’re making a much better go at it with your Camillia than I am. Had it 4 years now and although it produces an abundance of buds I’m yet to see it come into full flower. Obviously not got the magic touch.
Hi Mitzi and welcome to rusty duck!
Oh no! What happens to the buds, do they drop off or just fail to develop?
Your plants are looking wonderful. I have 3 snowdrop flowers but nothing else as yet!!!
It will all come at once when it starts to get warmer again!
What beautiful images, they certainly cheered me up on what is a grey cold day here. I popped across from Wendy’s post and very glad I did so.xxxxx
Hi snowbird and welcome to rusty duck!
Thank you. It has become much the same here. I’m sure Spring like days will return though, and when they do I think we’ll all be ready..
The flowers in your garden are beautiful and I love the way you have captured them! We aren’t quite advanced as you in Dorset.
Sarah x
Thanks Sarah. Surely only a week or so and you’ll be bursting out all over too!
Gorgeous. I love the sunlight highlighting the pictures.
Thanks Heda. It was a rare break in the grey winter skies and very welcome too.
Lots of fat buds, but only my pulmonaria has produced a flower. Something ate the primroses I think. Mind you, it’s baltic – I think I’d stay wrapped up in my bud if I was a flower for a little while yet!
It is truly baltic today, I’m looking out at the weeds (at last it is dry enough to get out on to the soil) but staying firmly indoors this afternoon!
You are a lot further on than we are in Bedfordshire. Lovely pictures Jessica. I especially like the pulmonaria.
Well we were… it’s now got so cold down here you may well catch up! Thanks Oma.
What beautiful spring flowers!! Meanwhile I’m in snowdrifts up to my waist… 🙂
Ooooh. Minus 5C forecast for tonight. Nothing for you guys I know but bloody friggin cold for me! Spring will come to Ontario too. Soon. I hope.
Thank you for that flower fix! I can last a couple more months now!
Hi Laura and welcome to rusty duck!
We have had a run of poor summers in England, but to you guys the growing season must seem precious indeed. You will enjoy it all the more when it comes!