January 31st 2016

A lovely shade on the camellia , Siris .
Nothing much we can do to stop them all going ahead , is there?

They all look beautiful Siris. Hope tomorrow's winds don't spoil them.

Donation is a lovely reliable older variety. Driad. Along the road a neighbour has a lovely cream Camellia in bloom. Last year the cream flowers were frosted and turned brown. Yuck!
Linda, one or two blooms have been blown off, and I have had 2 sheets of glass covering 'tenders' broken by the wind.

Welcome back, was only just thinking about you earlier!! so lovely to see the Camellias in bloom, unfortunately our neighbour has all our flowers at the moment....
Love the Hellebore, ours are very wishy washy.....not surprising considering this awful weather...will all need a good feed....your Cymbidians are looking superb, and I agree with you re the grass!!

Dd, 2015 I got some seed from a neighbour's anemone-flowered spotty Hellebore, well germinated now. The one in the pic is from T&M seed several years ago. Still got the potted Red Camellia put aside for you.

You have some lovely plants to look at so do all you can to ignore the lawn - I am trying to do just that because ours has never looked such a mess!!

Love your camelia.
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Lovely, all of them. You are fortunate that Donation is flowering before the red one as you'll have all that pleasure for longer. Your hellebore reminds me of one Terra showed earlier - how lucky to get that from a seedling!

Thanks W rose, luckily only a small patch of grass, hardly can be called a lawn in the back garden. The front is all plants.
Steragram, the pkt of seeds probably no more than 10, was quoted as doubles.

Right - how long was it before you got a flower? Worth waiting for!

Thanks Siris......

My Rosemary flowering itself silly too Siris. The Camelia looks good but I don't have the soil for anything that doesn't like cold, wet feet in winter (from the river).the Hellebore's a cracker too.

Steragram, probably 3-4 years, till it first flowered last year, but the colour is better this year. Just remembered have a white double, obviously not flowering, must check it tomorrow.
And acidic soil, Thorney, mine is only just so, have a couple of deciduous Azaleas, but think Evergreen Rhododendrons are a little more fussy, not that it matters, haven't really got the room. I use the Rosemary for cooking with lamb, but possibly the flavour of the leaves is not so good, whilst in flower.

I'm in for a wait then - I found my first seedling one this autumn but it will probably be just a white single if it takes after the one it grew under.

My white double is fully out but its in a sheltered spot (a bit short of those here...)

Yes probably single seedling. Have got a pot of seedlings of an anemone-flowered one from next door neighbours plant, took the seed from the plant, with her permission of course. Need to take a photo of it so I remember what it looks like in 3-4 years time!