First Photos 2020

Lemons!!! Your orchids are lovely.
The Corollina is looking really good, I’m going to get cuttings from mine this year.

You have some gorgeous flowers and fruit there Siris! Lovely. I love the slipper Orchid.

The Slipper Orchid is the bomb! How long does it last? Great show.

What a colourful start to your 2020 photo collection, and all looking so healthy too which must be gratifying given that the days are still so short and grey, I take my hat off to you, Siris. :-)

Your conservatory looks great - you must be tempted to spend too much time in there just looking! I'd love a Coronilla but don't think it would be happy here. It must be very mild where you are Siris - Fuchsia flowers in January!!

well that is a happy new year isn't it. Both of the orchids are beautiful. I used to have one of those fuchsia but lost it in the harsh winter of 2011. Must think about replacing it.
Never had any success with lemons. Love yours.

Lovely to see so much colour in January, particularly the beautiful Coronilla 🙂.

Lovely flowers to brighten up January, Siris! The orchids are so very beautiful, love the colours!

Thank you all for your kind comments.
DAWN, That Lemon treeis is about 6 ft tall including its tub now, also got 2 Calomondine Orange Trees of about the same size, one a cutting from the first, the oranges are small and bitter, ok for drinks or cooking.
KAREN, I do like my Orchids, I've 3 more Cymbidiums of different colours and 2 more, which have not flowered yet since buying from Madeira
BATHGATE, Its the first winter for the Slipper Orchid, the flower should last another month, making that three months in total.
STERAGRAM, I don't spend much time in the conservatory in the winter. There are tubular heaters in there for frost protection, but then there is condensation off the ceiling. It has been quite mild, but very wet here this year. We have had some frosts though.
SEABURNGIRL, The Fuchsia is the only one left of several, I think because it is tight against the wall, so the soil keeps quite dry. I must do a reminder to take some cuttings.

I've never seen lemon and orange trees in this country except little ones in supermarkets!
These mild conditions cant last can they?

Dawn, I bought the Citrus trees from a garden centre years and years ago. they were initially quite small, probably no more than 1ft.

My Citrus tubs are on round 3 wheeled-caster trolleys. We wheel them to the patio door in summer and between us lift them over the threshold so they get a summer holiday outside.

You’ve done well to keep them going, they must love their summer hols

Well done on your lemons………………we have never done well with ours…………about two lemons in ten years !!!as usual your orchids are looking beautiful.