Winter flowering Heather

Thay are fantastic little plants mine are still in full flower since September!

..I remember that stunner you had Carole......so it's still flowering?

Yes Janey theres a pic taken today on my new blog xx

I'll go and have a read...:o)

Hi Jane, not a Calluna ? :0)

Hi Blue......Oh...definitely NOT a Calluna.....(is that better...:o))

Hi Jane, the plant in the photo is either Erica carnea, or the hybrid, Erica x darleyensis....Calluna vulgaris cultivars are summer flowering, although there are some, like the recently introduced bud bloomers that will flower up to early December. :0)

Oh my, wrong again! well stack me Blue, that's told me...Lol! Will settle for the carnea I bow to your greater wisdom...:o)

Jane, what's 'stack me' mean ? :0)

Tch...Tch....mmmm......possibly a Northern term Blue.....I know you're from the South, but that's no excuse...........:o)

London...not really the south....a northern girl then ? :0

Of course!

The north is a big area ?

Yes...yes....it is quite large Blue...the top half of England...:o)

What about a bit of a clue ?

Sorry Blue......just having a joke there...we are in North Lincolnshire and very snowy it is today......how are things in Dorset? Have you missed the snow, it does look lovely and I bet in your garden it's amazing!!...:o)

No snow here Jane, and haven't seen any at all this winter so far, plenty of hard frosty mornings though.

You have been lucky...........by the name Foxhollow, it must be really sheltered, I love frosty mornings, are you near the sea?

Not too far from Poole Harbour,, but the garden is very open to the westerly weather. I chose the name Foxhollow because there was a very well known conifer and heather garden with that name back in the sixties, also not long after we moved here we had a family of foxes that used to use the garden as a playground, so I thought the name very appropriate :0)

Sounds idyllic Blue..........I haven't been to Dorset...only Devon and Cornwall on the south coast, there are so many areas here I should love to visit, the New Forest and Sussex and Suffolk......what made you leave London, Dorset is quite away from there....:o)

No choice Jane, moved down with my parents just after I left school

Wow...a real Escape to the Country..........were your parents gardeners too?

Not really, they had a pub in Watford prior to moving down south :0)

Cheerful looking Heather....

Thanks Deida...it has been in flower for a couple of months now....:o)