Topic: first for 2005...

[aquilegia]

Here's a thread for us all to get excited about Spring being on the way.

Please feel free to list when your first spring flowers are blooming, and where you're located.

I'm very excited because I found my first Crocus flowering on Saturday (15th January) in London. I also have one small allium in bud. I'm not sure what variety it is, looks a bit like a snowdrop (but not as pretty) and usually flowers when the bluebells do. (very early!)

[Gardengirl]

I also have a few crocus in flower Aqui - and the snowdrops have been out for a couple of days now.  Loads of daff buds appearing also the polyanthus and primroses starting to bloom.  Isn't it great when everything starts coming back to life ;D :D

Pat

[Palustris]

How about a Rose. Joseph's Coat I think it is. Picture available to prove it too!

[Tenuse]

I have a French Lavender in flower - I think it is confused!!!

Ten x

[Mrs Ava]

Not in flower, but when to my currently unheated greenhouse for a sort out this morning and my cannas are all growing lovely thick juicy stems!  When should I start watering and feeding them??

Spring flowers, nothing as such yet, I still have flowers left from last year in the garden, but nothing new yet.  My bulbs are always weeks and weeks behind everyone else thanks to the garden being a swamp and cold and damp all year round.

[eileen]

Catkins!!


Snowdrops.

Anaemones.

Lilac tree in bud.

Crocus.

Polyanthus. I also have white, pink, yellow blue an prurple out.

Cyclamen - really deep pink but they don't show up well in the piccie.

Even my dwarf rhodie is budding up.
Couldn't take any more as this is what I woke up to this morning.


Maybe winter's not done with us yet!!!!

[Mrs Ava]

Great pics Eileen, and love the snow.  We had our first flurry this afternoon and the sky looks heavy with it!

Didn't think about the primroses and primulas.  Yup, all in flower and looking lovely.

[aquilegia]

Another few:

Yesterday (19th January) I found the following:

More crocuses flowering
An Osteospermen in bud
a piece of rhubarb 6in long
self-sown Quaking grass seedlings
lots of weeds!