February 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[JPB]

Paeonia corsica, Zakynthos, Greece. Three year old plant; first time flowering

[meanie]

The best that I can offer at the moment in my garden is this lonely Katherine Hodgkin which survived the slugs...............


Indoors I do have this very charming Echeveria pulidonis............

[Hoy]

Meanie,

nice Echeveria! I once had one which I used to bring outside during the summer and it flowered itself to death

My Katherine H has just showed the first flower bud also (and the slugs have awakened too )

[meanie]

Meanie,

nice Echeveria! I once had one which I used to bring outside during the summer and it flowered itself to death

I am especially pleased with this one.

My Katherine H has just showed the first flower bud also (and the slugs have awakened too )

The slugs are a pain.

[astragalus]

The slugs here are asleep for some months to come!  The chairs and tables I used in the garden to support chicken wire (deer preventive), are starting to disappear and more snow coming tomorrow.
It looks a bit bizarre if you don't know why they're there.

[Paul T]

They're a bit of Object D'art amongst the snowdrifts.  ;-)

[Hoy]

No snow here, but very little sun. Dull weather. The crocuses are stretching but in wain.

The snowdrops and snowflakes (why are the snowflakes less interesting than snowdrops?) don't open but wait for more sun.

[Matt T]

A frosty and misty start to the day here today but followed by one of the most pleasant, sunny days we've had in a while.

Frosted leaves of Primula veris and an early Saxifraga 'Allendale Comet' (with a bit of 100mph windburn but otherwise doing well).

[angie]

Matt,  your first picture is so lovely 

Angie 

[Matt T]

Thanks Angie. It's the view from our back gate. On days like today we do consider ourselves lucky.

[angie]

Thanks Angie. It's the view from our back gate. On days like today we do consider ourselves lucky.

I should think so, it's so calming.

Angie 

[Matt T]

In early summer the same view is a sea of yellow flag. This grainy photo taken at 11pm is the only one I have, so I'll have to get better this year, just a few months away 

[angie]

Matt it looks so peaceful, not another house in sight 

Angie 

[astragalus]

Beautiful.  A sea of iris in bloom with mountains in the distance - what could be nicer?

[Lewis Potter]

Apart form a few Primula vulgaris and winter Jasmine. A Snowdrop and Iris recticulata 'Cantab' are flowering, shame the iris flowers don't last long, they are spectacular.