WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JANUARY 2018

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  1. "M"

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    :wow: @HsuH :love30: :love30: :love30: So much colour!! :greenwith: Excellent photos :thumbsup:

    Is that clematis "Freckles" ???
     
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      Thank you "M". British winter is not drab at all as far as garden flowers are concerned. Most of us have snowdrops, cyclamen, eranthis (to my eternal regret I don't know how to get them to flourish) and so on at this time of the year, soon hellebores, crocuses and irises will be out, followed by others .....

      Sorry, I can't be certain since I didn't buy it. But I always assumed it was clematis 'freckles'.

      Maybe some clematis experts on this forum can confirm it for us?
       
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        Hi @Kandy It looks like your going to have a nice early show mate & I hope it brightens your days up [​IMG]
         
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            Lovely show @HsuH I bet you are pleased...as the colours look great but this ones my best :)

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              That's why I put them in Kandy for the birds, it doesn't look this ones getting touched :frown:
               
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                Our cyclamen flowered, again, in November but nothing this month. :noidea: They tend to flower March/April, July and November here.
                 
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                  Wow @HsuH your cyclamen are doing fantastic as are your snowdrop down in Bristol you must be getting the affects of the Gulf Stream with how forward all your plants are doing and being down near the South West.:love30:

                  @ “M” Yes it is Freckles although I can’t remember the first part of the name but it begins with a C. Any early flying bees love the flowers as it is one plant they home in on in our garden if they wake up a bit early:smile:

                  My Coum tend to flower in Autumn @shiney but wonder if yours are Neapolitan I think it is or Hedrofolium that flowers in the spring time:scratch: I think the plants in your garden do well because of all that hot air that flows out of the millions of people and glass buildings in London so it has a radiating effect and your garden captures it although not too sure how far away from London your village is:scratch::biggrin:
                   
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                    @martin-f our berries are more of an orange colour whereas yours are dark red so perhaps they prefer to leave yours although you will have He lovely colour for longer in your garden:biggrin:

                    As an aside the Fieldfare that stayed in my garden when we had the snow and plenty of rotting pears to eat has finally spotted our next door neighbours tree according to Mr K and it is now scoffing the whole lot all to its self:biggrin: It never seizes to amaze me how these birds have such good memories that they know where my garden is from one year to the next to feed on my berries although they and the Redwings normally only visit when we have snow on the ground.:snorky:
                     
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                      ED6FE5D4-58A3-47C8-8EF0-6F67A13E9E44.jpeg I waited and watched for two days for this Iris to unfurl it’s petals only to find that it has been attacked by either birds or slugs or snails so had to get Mr K to take this photo before it got knoshed to nothing :sad:
                       
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                        @Kandy ours flower at least twice a year and sometimes three times. I don't know the variety as they've been there over 40 years. We're too far from London to feel any warming effects from it. :noidea: 35 minutes by 'fast' train (43 mins by slow train).
                         
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                          @shiney I was only joking,my sense of humour about the hot air but it always amazes me how you manage to have stuff in flower long before us living up Norf:biggrin: Must Be because I live on top of a hill as we make our own weather up here:snorky:

                          This Iris has just put out this flower and had two on it the other week.I also have a few more round the front garden but they never seem to grow very big despite feeding and watering them well.:scratch:I ordered mine many years ago from an off in a gardening magazine and must be had then fifteen years or so.Will have to have a Google of the proper name of them as I just call them winter flowering:biggrin:
                           
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                            @Kandy you were the person that told me, some years ago, that it is unguicularis :blue thumb: Ours flowers from early November but is in a very sheltered corner between two walls of the house and protected on the other two side by a very large Euonymous and the greenhouse. We never feed it (tend to forget about it because it's out of the way) and this year we have about a dozen flowers.
                             
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                              I'm north of M4, for some reason there seems to be a localised micro climate here. I often find that the weather towards the south in Bristol and north towards Gloucester can be very different from us.

                              Last Sunday was sunny so we went to Westonbirt Arboretum (not far from us) and a camellia tree was full of flowers!!
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                              A few more cheerful photos of Westonbirt
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                                Thank you Kandy, I put some orange ones in but ive had no berries on them yet, there still small bushes so plenty of time, the one with the red ones must be happy in it position as its way ahead of the others I put them all in at the same time,

                                Hopefully this year :fingers crossed:.
                                 
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