OH I DO LIKE TO LIVE BESIDE THE SEASIDE.......

Beautiful photos, hope you get some milder weather soon and that your plants cope with the freezing temperatures till then!

I'm feeling for you DD. We're the same here as you've probably already seen. Your poor Melianthus....it's such a lovely plant...I hope it soon recovers. That Acorus looks stunning! Oh, btw, I've had a message from LongAcre...my new babies are en route! I shan't be able to plant them though shall I? lol...they'll have to stay in the greenhouse until I have time and weather to get them in to their new homes. I was going to remove the rest of the Teasels today and take them to the Castle tomorrow, but everything is frozen solid.

Louisa thanks, I am also hoping for some better weather sooner rather than later........

Hi K such a pain isn't it, our new Prunus has just arrived, and no way can we put it in, just far too cold.
Looking forward to seeing your new plants, they have some great plants and I thought they were fairly reasonable too... I have so many now waiting to go in the garden, they are starting to grow away in our garden room, could do with a glasshouse or a cold frame, but no where to put either, roll on the better weather, please.

Hello Dotty..
I hope your plants survive the snow !

Lets hope they all come through without too many losses Angela ,We have the snow and bitterly cold winds ,I'm afraid several of our plants / shrubs are blackened by the frost some for the second year , it's heartbreaking when you lose a plant you love .......

Thanks TT, so do I.......Amy it is very disheartening, did you see your Sobaria in my pics? such a brave little plant, but looks to be coping well.

Same here in Lincs Dd so you might as well stay, we are all sharing, its a weird day, bitterly cold, pond frozen over all day although the snow on the ground has started to thaw in places, trouble is every few mins more snow is falling even in the sunshine, poor flowers are now laying down, I am tempted to pick my daffodils and have a few indoors, something I don't normally even consider, I am more likely to buy a few bunches .....

Lincs I would pick them if I were you, poor things, they don't know whether they are coming or going, OH has just come in from the cold to say there are icicles hanging from the sheds, now that is a first for us......

sorry about all this bad weather not great at all, guess it kills of certain bugs and things , a few slugs that were drawn out - you have a lovely garden DD - I would love to get some black bamboo for ours - on wish list for sure. we have Osmanthus never sure if they're hardy but pulled through last year so... love your centre pot attraction with shingle around

Yes, meant to say, that black bamboo looks fantastic!

I did notice the Sobaria 'Sem' Angela It looks to have grown a good bit :o))

I think most of us are just hoping that we don`t lose too many of out plants in this crazy sunshine to ice weather.
Like yours my sobaria sems seem to be doing fine bought both of them last year, but my fatsia jap. looks very sad .
I also planted a 9ft Silver Birch jacquemontii "Grayswood Ghost" a couple of weeks back when we had 3days of lovely sunshine just hope it will come thru ok.

Stroller, I think your Fatsia will be ok. It will probably take a while to get going again, as mine do most winters, but it will pull through :)

Nice pictures DD....and some of the plants are very forgiving of the weather aren't they, and soldier on!
Boy, it's cold today isn't it? The wind here is also bitingly cold and it's whipping the snow up and causing awful driving conditions!!!!

Thanks Paul, yes it is cold, even colder than the midlands!! the snow has stopped falling thank goodness, but the forecast is not at all good....

No, not rising very much above freezing this week in most areas! More snow for us in Essex tonight and tomorrow.

It was a bitter day here in the Midlands too Dotty. Most of the damage to my garden was done in February last year when the temps dropped to -10 for a couple of nights, it has come a bit later this year. Bloomin' weather :o((
Ps you moved on my 40th birthday in 2000, I remember having a lovely warm weekend in London.

Annella how funny we moved down here on our wedding Anniversary, it was really hot, and we moved with 3 goldfish and 3 cats , put ice cubes in with the fish.......and had to sedate the cats lol.....happy days!!

great pics tho .. so hope its good wether this year

Im sorry its so cold but your photos and flowers look so beautiful, the snow on that camellia look amazing

I lived on the coast for many yrs, Dotty.
Winds, salt-laden, scouring the skin off your bones, as I recall.
That & the tourists disappearing for another yr, so the place looked like a ghost town. Lol.
I guess the snow decided to have a short break, here in the UK.

Thanks Cris, lets hope so.......Sticki it is amazing how they survive really isn't it?
Mouldy luckily we do not have too many tourists, it is not a pretty seaside, and the beach has pebbles lol snow gone but now we are having frost at night!!

Tougher than we think some of them!

Know exactly what you mean, DD. We've been in the "sunny South" for over fifty years and the weather has definitely changed. Is this what "global warming" really means?

At the moment we are having to deal with parts of the drive being flooded. The water is coming from next door, an old thatched cottage with a country garden that is also flooded. Our neighbour has never had this problem before and neither have we. Oh for some sunshine!

.....at least we have no snow!

Lived in Gt Yarmouth for 8yrs, Dotty.
Yrs later lived in Bournemouth.
Both sandy, but been to Southend (muddy!!), & Brighton. Very pebbly.
Now I look back, it's surprising the sort of trees, shrubs and flowers that can withstand what the weather throws at them.

Hello Eirlys welcome, not seen you before, I see from your profile you are in Dorset, we would have moved there, my OH loves Dorset, but all the family are here, we all moved down over the years.......so we would not be any better off, weather wise where you are then? we now have rain lashing the garden, as if we have not had enough !!
Mouldy, as the crow flies we are not far from Bournmouth, have just been catching up with some photos taken last year, I guess I can say goodbye to the hardy Gerberas making an appearance then? cold they might have survived, but, wet no way.......

Reckn that crow hasn't flew much recently, DD. Lol.
Probably tucked up in it's nice warm nest, waiting for the weather to improve. XD

Very wise........

Is that crow on the move yet, DD? ;-)