Flowers to welcome 2009

~ a lovely selection Andrew! happy 2009!

That's wonderful !.
Happy New Year.

Thats great Andrew, & a very happy new year to you & every one on GOY especially Ajay & Peter.

Happy New Year Andrew. Nice to see your plants.

Great Blog! It was just what I needed to see, You have a lot of things still hanging on in your garden. Doesn't it just make you feel great!

What a wonderful walk around your area....it's great to see things growing and even blooming in what we sometimes view as the "off-season" Thanks for the tour Andrew!

Great to see so much going on in your garden...just the tonic to brighten up an overcast New Years Day! Daffodils already! Be nearer Easter before we see ours!

Happy Newy Year Andrew... A great site to behold in your garden on January 1st. Quite a contrast to my garden which is presently under about 15 inches of snow. ENJOY !

Happy new year Andrew.
It's too cold here at the moment to go outside.
It's been minus one all day today with a cold easterly wind, but we have had temperatures of minus three over the last few days which is very unusual for Bristol as its normally so mild here in the South West. No signs of early growth at the moment as everything has been knocked by severe frosts.

Really enjoyed this walk round your garden Andrew....the Winter Beauty Honeysuckle looks to be the one I photographed.........you have done well to have so much in flower right now. My Polyanthus look like they have slug damage too... I keep finding flowerheads on the ground! :o(

It's been very cold here as well Grenville - two or three degrees below freezing most nights for the past week. Today was slightly less cold during the day than yesterday but I was very surprised to see 'Cedric Morris' in flower before Christmas after the chilly autumn weather

Happy New Year Andrew. What a great variety of flowering plants you have as at 1.1.09, truly amazing, thanks for sharing with us. Like BB, us up north will probably see our spring bulbs flowering at Easter, if we're lucky,

nice winter colour andrew. i will have to go and look in my garden to see what the frosts have left...

OOh, I did enjoy the wallflower! It's made me look forward to ours all the more.
I believe we also have one of those hellebores, and you've inspired me to put on warm boots, coat, gloves and hat (remember the awful bar of chocolate party game? pure frustration that was...) just to see if it's still there.
I'll be right back.

Fantasic Andrew, loved reading this, you have so much going on, i think i can count about 3 or 4 in flower at the moment in mine, so it's lovely to brouse through all of yours. I absolutel love that Hydranger! wow! The wallflower you have is it the hardy shrubby type? i have seen some of these growing locally, but flower during the summer, they look a bit like lavender bushes when not in flower. very nearly bought some, but changed my mind as the company suplying them was T & M - say no more lol.

Weeding - are you back indoors yet? I read your comment and Captain Oakes ("I'm just going outside, I may be some time") sprang to mind.

Majeeka - the wallflower was one of about a dozen plug plants purchased in autumn 2007. They flowered well last spring and some of the plants looked so strong, I left them to grow on and this is the result!

Hello Andrew,
Do you know, I never did finish my mission because I've had a bit of a weird upset day to be honest. I'm resolved to finish tomorrow though, and will report back. I only went properly down the garden in the dark in the end - not good for counting any possible blooms. As soon as I went though I noticed how much better it made me feel.
It's good tomorrow is Sunday.
See you later, I think I need sleep!
Yrs, Oates.

There lovely Andrew, at my last garden i had some that just appeared, and they were lovely, not as nice as yours though.

Well I made it, but only counted 1 and a 1/2! Winter Jasmine, and the hellebore isn't sure whether she is or not. Brass monkeys here today! xx

Nice to know that Weeding is safely returned !

This is a super blog. Great photos. :o)
I have hebe flowering profusely. Is that unusual at this time of year ? Also have some of the above, Viburnum, Winter Jasmine and Rosemary. There really is quite a lot in flower at this time of year. :o)

Hebes are a law unto themselves as to when they decide to flower. As they hail from New Zealand, I suspect they still have jet lag!

Yes, you're right there.
Mine definitely thinks it is summer, despite the snow.

Wow! what a Fab Blog so Many Flowers !! The Photos are Brill :)

I cannot believe you have so many plants in flower, you are only down the road, as the crow flies, and although we have many of the plants on your blog there is not a flower to be seen, it has been bitterly cold here for the last few days now, not sure some of the tender plants will survive. Nice to see yours are all doing well though.

Happy 2009 AndrewR!! I love your pictures, I have some grevillia rosmariflorus out at the moment, lovely orange lotus like flowers and my rosemary is also flowering away. I have just purchased 2 of the Abutilon and I definitely have the Banksia on my list. My Garrya has also started to open into catkins, gives me hope that the Spring will not be too far off

I'm hoping to grow a grevillea too Andrea. I purchasd one at the RHS Show in Vincent Square in December but it will stay in its pot in the greenhouse (where it's flowering like mad) until spring

Which one have you got, there are several varieties, I have Grevillea rosmarinifolia and Grevillea juniperina, the rosmarinifolia is flowering away , but the juniperina doesn't flower until Spring, all are planted outside

Lots of colour out there - spring is on it way - Happy New Year

I bought grevillea lanigera 'Mount Tamboritha' as it supposed to be reasonably hardy in an 'average' winter.
It was looking OK in the greenhouse (which is unheated) this morning

It was freeeeezing last night and then some!! My coprosmas were nearly black, but regained their reddy glow during the day, but my echiums were looking very droopy, hope they will be ok, it is supposed to be - 8 tonight on the iow.

and i always thought January was a boring month for flowers!! great photos Andrew and lots of ideas for winter flowering plants thanks!!