Weather- for gardening .... or not

I noticed today while fetching in the washing from a very frozen, white over, garden that the arabis on my rockery has flower buds. Some pots of bulbs well up too. I have no desire whatsoever to go forth and garden yet. And maybe not then!

Ive got a white Hebe flowering. It flowers again early summer and autumn.will start gardening in Feb when i need to cut my monster buddlea to almost the ground where it will regrow to be a monster again

Enjoyed about 4hours gardening/tidying today,felt exhilarating..lots of shoots appearing,lots of (frisky?) small birds about also..

Lots of bulbs up and looking forward to the snowdrops.

It was a delight in the garden today with sun and no wind. Pressure washed half of one of the terraces which now looks a lot better.
Tidied a shelf in the greenhouse. Geraniums still in flower.

Potted up two jersey lilies given to me by my sister. Be months befor they flower, in fact after the summer

Lovely day today so we gardened all morning. DH has had a really bad cold by said he felt better for being outside. We painted the gate, de mossed the drive and moved a few bushes. If it is nice will do more tomorrow. We really enjoyed today. Lots of bulbs coming up, though being new to this garden we don't know what they are .

Cold but bright so did a job have been putting off..25ft long flower bed that was too narrow have brought it out by a foot,and used the pieces of lawn that I removed to replace bare patches in the lawn,back aching but feel good?and the freshly dug soil is amass with all manner of small birds grubbing around.

Cold here too. But we wrapped up warm and have been doing jobs outside all morning. Finished building a rockery and DH has dug out the foundation for a path. Loads of buds on everything. The daffodils and primroses are out. It was a good productive morning

Our chaenomeles bush is covered with bright red flowers, and I saw some celandines just appearing.
Otherwise it's impossible here to garden, it's been so wet.
Our 'drive', only grass, is dented with deep ridges from our vehicles. I managed to stamp one down today.

I've just come indoors after a couple of hours spent weeding the rest of the front borders. Here in my northwest garden there are few small birds around, just wood pigeons in their dozens. I could really do without them. However snowdrops and crocuses doing well and lots of buds to be seen too. The light is just so therapeutic as well. All in all, an enjoyable afternoon and a good excuse for some tea'n'cake.

You are a hardy lot. It's cold outside, but nice and warm inside. Guess where we are?

tessagee.also in the northwest ?

The dead stuff which didn’t get cut down last autumn is obviously harbouring hibernating beatles and things so have to be left and the tree surgeon who came a couple of weeks ago said the ground was far too wet to garden. I’m following his instructions and admiring the snowdrops and celandine through the windows.

WW whilst visiting IKEA early November DH bought 2 potted Amaryllis in bud
One white and the other pink.
They flowered beautifully over Christmas, and each have a second stem, now in flower.
Great value
But now not sure what to do when they finish flowering.
I also have Hyacinths in flower which I will replant with others already in the garden.

Advice please

I view garden and birds with cup in hand
feet up from the conservatory

Just leave the Amaryllis in their pots, Cherrytree, they'll come back year after year. I expect some people would advise feeding them. Water them until the leaves die down, then don't water again until the first shoots next appear.

I'd love to get in the garden to do a bit of pruning and cutting back old foliage but whenever I get some time for it the weather is horrible. But I've lots of Hellebores just coming into flower so must cut back last year's leaves to get the full benefit of the flowers; might be doing that in the rain (or snow) very soon

I have done some at every opportunity of a bit of sunshine,
I have spread quite a lot of compost on the borders. Taken down a broken metal arch and taken it to the tip. Pruned a and fed a few shrubs.

I always feel a lot better when I can get some sunshine.

I look forward to planting my garden in early June. Right now we are deep in snow with another 5-8 inches expected tonight and tomorrow.. We do have Chickadees and Woodpeckers about eating from the suet feeder.

Well the weather forecast says sun this morning, though cold. I will go out and paint the empty log store. We have a yellow weather warning for ice and snow tonight. Best get things done while we can.

At this time of year I try to get out in the garden as much as possible, if only for half an hour. Always makes me feel happier. Just generally weeding, tidying and a bit of pruning at the moment. Oh and sitting in the greeenhouse with a cup of coffee watching the birds and planning siummer planting. This year I am going to resurrect a small vegetable patch, I can clear it now but it needs to dry out a little before I can dig it over. In the meantime I am sitting in bed with some gardening books waiting for daylight.

I know little about gardening that is DH’s domain.

Now here is a question for all you gardeners. From my small office I can see in our patio garden 3 yellow roses which have been in flower since last year. Isn’t it an odd time of year for roses to be out ? We live in Buckinghamshire so generally mild conditions.

Frost is what does for them nankate so I guess you hav3nt had any.

It is supposed to be the coldest week of the winter, so frustratingly not much gardening this week

Just got over the lurgy, so ready to do some winter gardening jobs, but it is currently so freezing cold outside - and likely to be all week - so I think I will delay it a week.

Bitterly cold but today but wrapped up warmly and did a few hours tidying up the big herbaceous border and it felt great to get stuck in .The sun came out, and there was a lot of activity from the birds.It was so uplifting to reconnect with the garden after weeks off.It always amazes me how slowly everything starts to emerge,and the scruffiness of a winter garden that looks as if will never recover from all the rain begins to regenerate. It's lovely to feel tired tonight,but in a good way having made a start on this year's gardening.

You are all so tough! I must admit it's too cold for me! I picked up a few leaves the other day then raced back indoors! But the primroses and snowdrops are out. And the days are getting longer.

MaisieD Thanks will follow your advice.
The amaryllis are in flower at the moment and looking very cheerful