Monthly favourites.

Such a lovely idea for a blog, Hywel. I’m definitely with you on the colour of Campanula Pritchard variety - just perfect 🙂. Added to favourites! Thanks for cheering me up 🙂 .

what a lovely personal calendar that is Hywel.

Some would also be on my 'calendar too, especially cyclamen, clematis and crocus.
I'd have to include snowdrops and lily of the valley too.

Lovely Hywel, your hibiscus is stunning.
I agree the wild primula is my favourite primula.

HyweL this blog was such a pleasure! I wish it was an
actual calendar - I would buy it like a shot!

Meadow, me too. I've had one years and it never flowered but this year it had buds, very late in autumn, they didn't come to anything as they got frosted, I have two smaller plants so I hope in time they'll all flower.
What aspect is yours enjoying Hywel.

What a fab calendar. Love all the pics, especially the close up of your Hibiscus. I never noticed the plastic bowl,until you pointed it out, I was too busy looking at the Fuchsia!

Thank you all, I am pleased you like my choice of plants, although it was difficult to choose just one for each month …

Re the Hibiscus - when it was in my dad's garden it was planted in the open at the edge of a lawn. It never grew very much and only produced a few flowers.
Up here I have planted it at the side of a fence and it has probably made the most of that because it is about 6 feet tall and 5 ft wide. I'll have to cut it back a bit next year.
Maybe the shelter of the fence is helping it flower so well too.

Love your selection of plants. It is hard to choose my favourite photo. My husband makes our calendar monthly using my paintings.

Wow Hywel, it is huge!! If must be outstanding! I moved mine a couple of years ago, it's now near a fence so fingers crossed :-)

Hywel, this makes a really beautiful calendar and the photos you have chosen for each month are lovely. The campanula is the prettiest of colours and I love the crocuses and primroses, two of my favourites at a favourite time of year.
Thank you.

Choosing a favorite is difficult, but the phlox steals the show for me. That was the name of my first girl friend - Natascha! I think I was 8.

Thank you all for your comments about my blog :)

Good luck with your Hibiscus Dawn !

You have a good memory Bathgate :D

Lovely idea Hywel. I love your Jasmine display.

A great monthly blog, Hywel! you have made a great calendar there! I love all the flowers you have chosen for it as well!

our computers must be very alike then as I have 1,000s of photos over many years. I like to reorganize mine into folders with their own names & years so I can look back at what I had flowering on the balcony, or in the flat, & compare dates & what was flowering when!

In fact did you know that this week last year we had snow? I'd forgotten till I saw some of last years photos of early December!

Thank you both :)

That's what I hope to do with my photos also Balcony but it's going to take ages to go through them all. I will have to try and do them when they are new.
We didn't get any snow here last winter, except on top of the highest mountains. I don't remember any significant snow here for several years and I hope never again. I hate the stuff, it's so depressing.

I organise my photos into their type. general folder ie bulbs the one for each genus I grow eg narcissus then sub folders for each one eg Jetfire. Am I a bit too strange do you think? No don't answer that haha.

That's how I want to do it Seaburngirl. I think it's because of the classification system I learnt when I did my A levels in Botany and Zoology many years ago.
I should have started doing it years ago. It's a marathon job now. I have lots I can delete as well.
You are not strange at all. It's common sense to me.

All lovely pics Hywel but my favourite is the October Clematis 'Kaiu'. That's a beauty!

Thank you :)

You have a knack of taking some good pictures, lovely to see these whilst we are in this dank doomy gloomy weather.

Thank you. I tend to take lots of pictures and show the best ones :) Many get deleted ...

What lovely photos on your 'calendar', so vibrant, and the plants so floriferous. Like that little Clematis Kalu.

Thank you, the flowers of Kaiu are very dainty but sometimes the plant gets a bit out of control :)

A great blog Hywel, with fabulous photos, thank you so much for sharing it with us. It is impossible to decide which of these plants is my favourite but I shall be looking for Omphalodes capadocica ‘Starry Eyes’ to add to my garden, what a delightful plant! I hope it will tolerate our chalky clay soil, according to the RHS website it should! Take heart, you are not alone, my winter jasmine isn't doing well either this year; I think it would like next door's overhanging variegated holly to be cut back to give it more light, maybe this week ;-) I am hoping my winter heathers look as good as yours in the next few weeks too, as you say they are so pretty!

Xela I could send you a root of the Omphalodes if you like. I am going to thin it out in the spring before it flowers.
Thanks for your comment.

Hywel, this is a lovely idea you’ve come up with! Beautiful pictures of your garden flowers too! The clematis Kaiu is a beauty!

Thank you Kate :)

Aww thank you Hywel, what a kind offer, I would love to have a root of yours growing in my garden. It will have pride of place in my new bed when it is revamped in the Spring, where I can watch over it from the lounge window too. :-)

I will send it in the spring, I'll let you know when it is on the way.

I missed this lovely blog, smashing selection Hywel....great idea..