Happy New Year, thank you

Happy 2016 to you Barbarak, I don't think any of the usual rules apply now, we just have to go along with nature, makes for an interesting challenge don't you think.....

Wow! The gardenias here have just barely started to form buds! Then, until this week, we have had unusually cold weather.

Erm, is it just me that can't actually see any Gardenia in the photograph? I can see a Leucothoe (which will love the moisture) and some other plant nearby with what looks like reddish new growth, but nothing that looks like gardenia, and especially not G. 'Kleim's hardy' - although the pic is upside down, which doesn't help...

Hi bamboo, the photo isn't upside down on my iPad. The gardenia is the plant with the white buds in front of the leucothoe.

Upside down on my laptop. Just another of those device foibles, probably. Pictures from phones, Tablets, and I-Pads often wind up mis-oriented on this site.

Thanks for the info re photos Tugbrethil. I'll upload photos in future to desktop to check orientation. I hope I have changed the orientation of the photo.

yep, its the right way up now - what variety of Gardenia is it, I don't recognise it?

I'll have to wait until it stops raining to check the label but I don't think it gave the variety. It was from either Lidl or Aldi!!!

No luck finding the label. It's alive at the moment so I'll wait and see. I might protect it next week as it's going to get colder apparently.

I'm not convinced its a Gardenia, personally - I can see the backs of two flowers on a plant to the right of the pic, but the plant appears to have leaves which are nothing like a Gardenia - and Gardenias are fussy beasts indoors and are only houseplants here, other than Gardenia 'Kleim's Hardy', (and it isn't that) which is why I'm curious about it....

Happy New Year to you all - I'd like to add my guess to the flowering plant in the picture. Could it be a Hellebore??

Lower left hand quarter of the picture, Bamboo.

I wasn't asking actually for identification more making a statement of the weather conditions. You are right Tunbrethil, the gardenia is in the lower left there is also a leucothoe , a hellebore and a very young photinia in lower right. When it stops raining I'm going to take a better photo and also cut the flowers to see if they open indoors. When I see the flowers open I should know if it's the Klein hardy variety.

Oh gawd, what a plonker I am - I didn't notice the plant bottom left, was too busy looking at the one with flowers, and yes, that does look like some sort of Gardenia, sorry Barbarak and thanks to Tug for pointing its position out...

I'd love to know the variety. I almost bought a gardenia last weekend but was told it was only for indoors. My brother has beautiful gardenias in his front garden. He lives in Tampa, Florida.