A Cold Day In February.

You have some super plants Louise. The Euphorbia ‘rubra’ is very nice. I set some Crocus Ruby Giant in the Autumn after reading your blog around that time, not up yet though.

Lovely photos, gorgeous Heucherella.

Shows what good selection can do for year round interest. Your garden looks great, Louise - I particularly love the Euphorbia Rubra - and the Heucherella - and the Oh, I could go on and on - and I bet you're looking forward to the perfume from the Daphne.

Your plants do you justice Louise1.
They have come through even though we have had some terrible weather
still looking pretty good!!

I love your choice of plants, especially "Daphne" one of my favourite
Shrubs and Euphorbia "rubra" its outstanding!!

Thank you for Showing them to us, what a Treat!!

My Scabious 'Barocca' looks OK, as well. That's good, isn't it - we both liked that one. I hope your E, mellifera perks up again!

Yes indeed....what a treat.......That daphne is lovely and the euphorbia is a gorgeous colour.....xx

Lovely piccies, how old is the Daphne?

Lovely photos Louise, your poor Centaurea looking very sad, is it caterpillars? I thought it might be vine weevil.

Thanks everyone :-)

Dawn, the Ruby Giants are 'up' but the flower buds aren't showing yet, looks like they'll be a couple more weeks !

It's caterpillars Db, they rampage through the front and back gardens unfortunately. (they attack shrubs aswell as perennials)
GoY member Vicky identified it as caterpillar damage from the pictures of my Heuchera that i posted - her being a bit of a Heuchera expert 'n' all ;-)

Val, that Daphne has been there for about 3 years, it's about 18" high and the same wide ....... it's quite a slow grower :-(

Fascinating photos...and thanks for the Pittosporum pic...
encouraging to see how well the Penstemons are surviving..

Louise you have so many lovely plants that have come through all the bad weather really well, I have the Euphorbia Ruba and the Daphne Adora Both looking well but my Daphne is three years old and has never flowered yet. I also have Eunomynus , Pittospernum and, Phorminum and Yucca which have been badly hit and although I think they will recover they are looking very sorry for themselves, just hope we dont anymore severe weather!

lots of lovely plants louise and wont be long till they start to look good again, cant wait can you... :o))

Plenty of things worth photographing Louise, and very little frost or cold damage. I think things here (Norfolk) have had a worse hammering than in Somerset by the look of your garden.
You do have some lovely and interesting plants. Lovely photos.

You have lots in your garden all doing well, may only be 6 where you are but its only 4 up in Blackpool.

TT, those Pittosporums (Wendel Channon) are doing really well, they seemed to grow about a foot in a year so this hedge that i've planted is coming along nicely :-)
And as for the Penstemons, they don't seem to be very affected by the winter at all :-)))))

Pansy, it's queer about your Daphne isn't it ? I wonder what the difference in growing conditions are ..... ?
Mine's in thin, poor, alkaline soil, in a south facing position.

San, i can't wait !!!

Mad, i think you get colder weather than here, don't you ? :-(
I was quite surprised at how well everything's come through this winter ..... i wouldn't have thought a lot of them could have survived but i put it down to the well drained soil ..... no wet feet to get rotted !

Clarice, it's 6 here today too but oh boy it feelsd SO much colder, must be a windchill factor making the difference :-((((((
(the birds have eaten loads today ..... just refilled the feeders for the 2nd time today ..... must be turning colder)

Your plants have done very well to come through this most severe winter, perhaps you are more sheltered than we are, I was surprised to see the Euphorbia mellifera, as it is a very tender plant.You do have a very good selection Louise.

Thanks Dd :-)

Yes, it is a sheltered part of the region 'and' the garden's fairly sheltered too.

That Euphorbia is gorgeous, i love it !!!
I have 2 either side of the front path.
Some of the older leaves look limp and floppy, but the rest are fine and the plants themselves are perfectly okay.
They are shooting up new stems everywhere which are unaffected too so i think they'll see through this winter okay, that'll be 2 cold winters, for this region, they've seen now :-/

Louise...your garden plants have held up quite amazingly through this long harsh winter.Lots of signs of spring too !

Bb, i'm quite surprised at how well some of them have fared, and yes, definately lots of spring signs :-)))))))

We have had a lot of damage but dont intend to prune just yet as hard frosts and bad weather still in the offing !

I've only really snipped here and there, i'm leaving the serious work another month now.

We too !