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January 26
Daphne


Hellebore


Smaller Hellebore with lighter flowers

January 27
Camellia

Camellia? Outdoors? In WINTER?
Alice, please, please say that you are kidding.
I only ever see camellias when I go to the Mediterranean greenhouse of the Botanical gardens. And potted in garden centres, dying the moment they get into central heated rooms.
The Lady of the Camellias (Dumas & Greta Garbo) would have been terribly expensive in upkeep here indeed with her posies of camellias ...

Liis it is Spring, I started a new thread (but in support of my contention the woman down the street was doing her gardening in a short sleeved t-shirt this afternoon -- I was wearing a coat while walking)
That bush is the earliest to bloom. I would say it generally blooms in winter. I have a hedge 20 feet tall of a variety of kinds of camellias -- often it is so rainy that the flowers get beaten to pulp.

January 29
Daffodil Buds from up the street

Today I dug 1,75 metres of dumped snow off where some snowdrops are expected to come up. Sometime.

Arrggghhhh, aoowwww ...

Thanks, some consolation ...
I have a rose like that . No immediate pulp, that is, but you have to slit the utmost petals after a rainy period, or it won't open, just rot.

Lovely pictures, Alice.

It's nice to know that Spring is somewhere! Some friends on Vancouver Island (north and west of Alice) report snowdrops, daffodils, spring iris, primroses , etc etc

February 12
Hellebore


The smaller petaled Camellias are just about ready to bloom.


Hellebore from my neighbour's garden

Alice, what a beautiful color

wow, that Hellebore is amazing!
i had one (with white blossoms) once...but it got lost somewhere

The dark hellebore is from down the street (I think she has a prize winning garden) -- the two in my garden are much lighter.

Two more flowers from my garden

I think they were taken on the 20th
Daphne and Daffodil


Lung Wort

thanks for these pictures - they are like soul food, lucky you, with spring and all...
all we have here, is more snow every day...

Lovely pics,lovely plants Alice.
We have..Snowdrops and Hellebore too. Tulips and Daffodils are on the way.
No wonder, our weather has gone from -6° C to 15° today. Kraazy weather. The snow has all melted of course..I did like that lovely white everywhere,but then I don't have to adventure out unless strictly necessary.

Alice, beautiful and moving pictures! They remind us here that some of those same flowers will be blooming here too, one day when the snow has gone.. after 10 weeks or so..

Never ending Spring by traveling the world.



This year late Jan/early Feb. was 7degrees Fahrenheit warmer than last year -- my gas bill says the average temperature last year was 38f this year it was 45F.

...and my gas bills are almost twice bigger than last year
of course last years we had no proper winter too
but it is lovely to know that Spring is somewhere !

I do really feel like spring all the way back.
Beautiful flowers

Camellia




I need to look up the dates -- I am on two computers and....

Camellia Hedge