It Might Only Be February and Still Cold, But....

.....I was walking past a house today and admiring a magnificent Magnolia tree in the front garden, it was a fantastic specimen and covered in buds and believe it or not one of the buds was very advanced and showing some colour, looking like it was about to break open!!!, some 6-8 weeks early. Nature is really amazing sometimes, a little taster of spring...

 

Lets hope it dont break just yet.

 

All my Winter Aconite have been out for a while now - nice golden yellow, lovely.

 

You know Spring is on the way when Magnolias are in bud. They're been in bud for a while here, but they tend to do that then wait until around March to break open. In fact there were buds on mag trees in December, but they do seem to have excellent ability to keep their buds for a while without them falling off, or rotting.

 

It will bounce back Loofah, never fear. And will look all the more lovely next year ,
Jenny

 

It's been 15 degrees and sunny all day ......more to come too I think....so feb is pretty good at mo.

 

Another dry warm.."for feb" .....day. About 12 degrees. Feb is full of promise

 

Just back from Texas and visited a botanical garden in Fort Worth. Nothing terribly exciting except for ENORMOUS Magnolia Grandiflora which must have been at least 75ft tall. Not flowering atm but still wonderful specimens to see.