WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN DECEMBER 2018

@Zigs, @Alisa - sorry slow reply - I have been moving house
I have never slit bark for mistletoe - after all, the birds don't. Just squish the seed out and use mucilage to stick to a branch, preferably on top as they slip a bit. Be prepared for very low success rate, as the first year or so they are very vulnerable.

 

Arum italicum

Jasminum nudiflorum

Daphne odorata

Fuchsia microphylla

 

An aroma caught me this morning as I got out of car and I followed my nose to this daphne Perfume Princess. Only been in place for a year or so so not a looker yet but what a fantastic smell. Odora aureomarginata here has much smaller flowers and less fragrance. Perfume Princess is supposed to have a much longer flowering period too so I have high hopes

 

Not a bad display for a 25p reject.


My Hellebore is flowering nicely. It should make a good display in the years to day. If there is room, I might plant one or two more.


My wallflower has done amazingly well. I think I would be more than happy to cover this section with more of these.


My felicia is still blooming steadily and osteospersemum is flowering again. If I'd known it was going g to bloom again, I might have trimmed it first.

G.

 

Looking great there......felicias, wallflower (bowles mauve) and osteospermum can all be propagated (even now indoors) by cuttings for loads more plants next year
However, be aware of severe frosts to come that will damage those plants overnight

 

I'd agree with @Verdun, @Jack Sparrow - I lost wallflower Bowles Mauve because it flowered itself to death and I hadn't taken cuttings. Yours looks like it's got plenty of good shoots for cuttings at the moment.
My correa Marion's Marvel has loads of flower and bud now (apologies for lousy photo). It was in a cold greenhouse, but is having to rough it outside. It has a lousy root system so I hope it doesn't get too windy!

 

Passiflora 'lavender Lady' is still flowering but it has lost it's mauve colouring now

 

Grevillea victoriae


Cestrum "Cretan Purple"


Correa mannii


White Hellebore


Hellebore Double and Freckles

 

Echeveria pulvinata which I grew from seed from my own plant..............
Echeveria pulvinata by longk48, on Flickr

 

What's looking good. Look no further. Tis me. Today I have gained another year. Does that make me a perennial. Perhaps the old roots might be a bit woody now, but the top growth. Truly I don't look a day older than my avitar. Now then. When was that piccy taken??????????? I bet I claimed to be 35 at the most. The outer covering is one thing. The inner man.....yuk!!