A glimmer of early spring! Colour in the garden

My Christmas roses are showing. Mil used to put them on the table at Christmas if she could so they always remind me of her!!

My Hellebores seem slow this year but I have a fence in the front garden that is covered in winter flowering Jasmine its bright yellow and beautiful.. my adjoining neighbour who trimmed said Jasmine back to my side of the fence in the Summer remarked how he wished he'd left it alone as his side is bare.. haha serves him right for interfering.

Nothing showing in the garden yet but seeing the word Spring has perked me up whitewave

I always buy some indoor bulbs to compensate for lack of flowers in the garden and enjoy watching them grow and bloom.

Spring? I would like to see a hint of something that said spring was just around the corner but not very likely at the moment. It's soooo cold & snowing here in Scotland. Brrrrr....rrrr....

I've got primroses out and several rose bushes still flowering, do hope is very early Spring (prob over-optimistic!) also watched blue tits going in and out of nesting box, surely that's far too early!

I forgot my winter jasmine is covered in lovely yellow flowers too! Until last week our mountain ash was ablaze but a flock of fieldfares descended at the weekend.

Lovely day in Staffordshire today and the bulbs are well up in my garden. Has anyone else noticed the cut daffodils for sale in Morrisons? They have had them for a few weeks now and I wish they wouldn't as I love it when the daffs come in in February/March time - not December!

Lovely day in Staffordshire today and the bulbs are well up in my garden. Has anyone else noticed the cut daffodils for sale in Morrisons? They have had them for a few weeks now and I wish they wouldn't as I love it when the daffs come in in February/March time - not December!

Feeling hard done by in North Cheshire - not too far from Staffs, but lousy weather today. Even had a brief blizzard today.

We have snowdrops coming through here on Wirral. A couple of them are in flower already.

DD bought me a bunch of white tulips from Morrisons yesterday knowing I buy those and daffodils whenever they first appear in the shops.

I was delighted to receive them but this is always something I have looked forward to buying in February too NotTooOld. I had no idea they were available already.

Primulas, hellebores and even a cowslip have all been out for a few weeks now. I was picking alpine strawberries until the frosts last week too.

Jasmine in my garden, too. My gardener brother-in-law reckons that lots of his spring plants are out already. That's in Hull.

Yippee! First snowdrops out and roses still blooming! Lots of bulbs showing too, clematis has shoots, just hope not killed off by frosts. Primroses been out for several weeks.
Neighbour showed me a photo of daffodils out in Andover already, mine are only few inches high here in North Wiltshire.

Some bulbs are showing though green in my patio pots in Cheshire.

it would be useful to give an idea of which county we live in with these what are you growing threads .

Here in Oxfordshire there isn't much out yet, it isn't cold enough for the snowdrops to come through, but we have had primulas out for 2 weeks now in the garden, and all the shoots of the Spring bulbs are showing .

A few daffodils are out here. Most are only an inch out of the ground but odd clumps are flowering.

I have primroses and roses flowering in Oxfordshire. I was also picking 'Autumn Bliss' raspberries right up until the recent sharp frosts. I noticed three robins this afternoon, each trying to outdo the other's song - it must be courting time!

Our garden is all white with a deep mantle of snow ;)

Out doing a bit of earth stirring today around the bulbs coming up and listening to the bumbles in the clematis - delightful.

noticed the first snowdrops showing white buds. the flowers will be properly out in a few days which cheered me up no end.

We call our snowdrops "Thomas's" as our dear Westie passed away on the 8th February 6 years ago and we planted snowdrops in his memory and they have thrived and spread like mad.

Catkins have now grown since my post about a month ago and are now wriggling in the breeze.

Anyone seen any lambs yet?

One single flower on my white Hellebore. The snowdrops look promising and the Viburnum Bodnantense has been glorious this winter - not bad considering that I forgot to prune it last spring.