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Witzend Thu 08-Jan-26 13:10:42

Near here there is a whole row of about 8 mature mimosa trees. One is already fully out, several more are well on the way. 🌼🙂

keepingquiet Thu 08-Jan-26 14:10:59

No way! We're all sitting here for the supposedly biggest snowfall in 30 years or something!

tanith Thu 08-Jan-26 14:13:08

I have Daffodil bulbs coming up but nothing else.

garnet25 Thu 08-Jan-26 14:15:15

How lovely to hear of any colour in the garden. Nothing here yet in North Cheshire.

fancythat Thu 08-Jan-26 14:22:11

tanith

I have Daffodil bulbs coming up but nothing else.

Some of mine came up before Christmas.
Unheard of for me.

Oreo Thu 08-Jan-26 15:49:48

Daff bulbs coming up in pots, just by about three inches but a sign of Spring 😃

pably15 Thu 08-Jan-26 18:35:01

It's lovely to see the start of spring in the gardens

Susiewong65 Thu 08-Jan-26 18:49:26

Between Christmas and New Year I visited a National Trust property in the south west region and their snowdrops were well and truly out.

4allweknow Sat 10-Jan-26 13:41:43

Down on south coast last week, daffodils were out in the park. At home my Daphne are in flower, just love the fragrance wafting up the garden which is covered in ice!

SpringsEternal Sat 10-Jan-26 14:06:16

Oh , Witzend do you live in the South? I LOVE Mimosa, but haven't risked planting it here in Yorkshire...

Lizzie44 Sat 10-Jan-26 14:08:28

Snowdrops out in the local churchyard (Oxon)

lixy Sat 10-Jan-26 14:29:25

Snowdrops just coming up here in Bedfordshire. Great to see them.
And, amazingly, there is a stick of rhubarb (not forced) on the way too.

Seabreeze Sat 10-Jan-26 14:39:36

My Helebores were coming into flower and the frost has got them. Bulbs all coming up. Wisteria was full of leaf buds but I think the frost may have got those as well. The Acanthus is in leaf and looking very healthy though.

Kitty55 Sat 10-Jan-26 15:03:33

SpringsEternal
I live near Northumberland and have grown a Mimosa for forty five years. It’s alway beautiful and always healthy. Worth trying.

silverlining48 Sat 10-Jan-26 15:13:08

Snowdrops have been flowering in my garden since before Christmas and purple amistead salvia still in flower since last summer. Yet it’s freezing.
Looking forward to my daffodils 🌼

Aely Sat 10-Jan-26 15:19:30

The Helebores will recover. Plenty more flowers will come, I bet.

shysal Sat 10-Jan-26 15:22:30

Lots of daffs and snowdrops in flower here in Oxfordshire, and last summer's Osteospermums in pots against the house and in a hanging basket are still flowering.

Yorkshirepudding4ever Sat 10-Jan-26 15:31:55

I love mimosa too - you rarely see it in flower shops, I expect because it doesn't last long. When my late Mum saw any for sale, she always bought a bunch for each of us, and vice versa, so it brings back happy memories of her! A very big treat for me now is a bottle of Jo Malone mimosa and cardamom perfume, which makes a good job of capturing the scent without being too overpowering.

Wedi Sat 10-Jan-26 16:06:14

Primroses started just before Christmas !

grannybuy Sat 10-Jan-26 16:07:57

Can’t see anything for snow! NE Scotland.

Chulachuli Sat 10-Jan-26 17:38:55

There are 2 Agapanthus flowers out in my neighbours front garden here in my village in S Devon. My rhododendron was flowering its heart out in November!

Jay5 Sat 10-Jan-26 18:37:44

Bulbs coming through

Dickens Sat 10-Jan-26 18:45:25

Susiewong65

Between Christmas and New Year I visited a National Trust property in the south west region and their snowdrops were well and truly out.

... whereabouts in the South West? I'm in the South West (The Cotswolds) - and looking for snowdrops in my garden which haven't appeared yet as they normally do by this time...

knspol Sat 10-Jan-26 21:13:18

I had 2 new agapanthus stems around 18 inches tall but the high winds and rains have bent them over and broken them.

Witzend Sat 10-Jan-26 21:15:17

SpringsEternal

Oh , Witzend do you live in the South? I LOVE Mimosa, but haven't risked planting it here in Yorkshire...

Outer SW London. We don’t often get extremes of weather.