Happy New Year

A little bit of snow is enough

I'm glad to have seen a tiny bit of snow this winter. But I am ready now for the weather to get better. 

Although it is still cold, the garden is waking up. I have the winter flowering Viburnum tinus with pink flowers all winter. It supports any wild things that have woken up early in the year. 

Viburnum tinus

                                             

Viburnum tinus close up

Also the winter honeysuckle which smells delicious and also provides food  for wildlife. 

 

Winter honeysuckle

The primroses have been alive and very pretty all through the winter. 

But new things are now showing themselves, which is very heartening. The  hellebores are just coming out, especially the white double one that is always the first. But others are showing too. 

The Daphne odora that I created  as a cutting about five years ago  is in bud and will be out very soon. 

Daphne odora

 The small-flowered Camellia transkoensis already has a couple of flowers and will go  on flowering for ages. 

Camellia transkoensis