Whats Looking Good February 2023

Crocus istanbulensis
The flower is brilliant orange-yellow, usually without exterior markings, and the style is characteristically divided into 6 branches and is a slightly darker orange shade than the petal colour, picture doesn't really capture the colour properly.

 

My large (and very old) Azalea bush, among the Crocus. Taken just before lunchtime, today.

 

Oh Wow Jocko your Azaleas bloom early up there!!

It's beautiful.

 

Nothing

 

A few hellebores

 

I have a lovely Christmas Cactus that has decided that flowering at Christmas isn't up to much, so let's see how we do in February!

 

My two plants of Clivia have decided that a month of flowering was tiring & so they are shedding their flowers & getting ready to build up their energy for the next time!
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Only this year.
It was the middle of March last year.

 

Crocuses along the path in the front garden.

 

All these are adding a little colour to the rough ground between the circle of five pine trees in my garden. It's difficult to get a shot of them all - being enclosed.









Except this one. A single mole hill appears at this time every year just inside the boundary of my garden. The mole tunnels through from my neighbour's 'wilderness' then disappears again.

 

I am amazed these Iris Katherine hodgkin have even grown , I were certain they'd rot away they didn't do anything really last year .

 

I bought this amaryllis from Aldi as a Christmas present to myself. I thought it was a dud but recently it has sprung into life.

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Lovely colour ... and I like the pot too.

 

@JackSparrow I also got an Amaryllis as a Christmas present from our son & planted it on Christmas Day - (like I did with my first ever Amaryllis which was also a Christmas present but from my sister, 40 years ago!) - the bud is very high on the scape & in about a week's time it will begin to open.