February 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[annew]

How lovely to see the dodecatheons growing wild like that.
Matt, I broadcast seeds about 17 years ago.

[johngennard]

Love your cyclamen Anne.This is a small group at the base of my rockery resulting from a self sown original casting its own seeds and now with a little help.

[Pete Clarke]

Canarina canariensis - flowering for the first time for me from seed.
Lovely flower, but I was expecting a darker and redder flower. I expect the colour varies depending on where it originally came from.

[annew]

I like the sunset shades on that.
John - that's a great variation in leaf forms from one starter!

[Anne Repnow]

A glorious sunny day yesterday and spring is on its way. The crocuses in my meadow (Crocus tommasianus) are flowering.
I whish I knew what the bicoloured crocus are... Any ideas?

[Matt T]

The bi-colour looks like 'Vanguard', Anne, but there may be other similar varieties.

[johngennard]

Fantastic day today and didn't know when to stop so apologies for the quantity but promise these will be the last.How can one resist the "TOMMIES".

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[Maggi Young]

Thank goodness I'm feeling well - otherwise I might have thought I'd died and gone to heaven seeing those tommies.
Just the most gorgeous display, John - I love every last one of them.

[Brian Ellis]

Fantastic day today and didn't know when to stop so apologies for the quantity but promise these will be the last.How can one resist the "TOMMIES".

Don't apologise, we are loving them!

[meanie]

Canarina canariensis - flowering for the first time for me from seed.
Lovely flower, but I was expecting a darker and redder flower. I expect the colour varies depending on where it originally came from.

Where are you growing yours? I had good growth on my seed grown tubers but no flowers yet.

On the plus side I have found plenty of these on my Cantua buxifolia...........


The plant as a whole is not looking so good after the electrics failed at the top of the garden and the greenhouse hit -5°c during the cold spell.


Thankfully there is still enough material left to produce a half decent number of blooms...........

[Tim Ingram]

Just amazing to see those crocus and a good bit more... our lawn is presently full of daisies - very nice in summer - but could do with some drifts of crocus too! Is Crocus tommasinianus naturalised anywhere else in the UK apart from your garden John!!

[Roma]

Fantastic display, John.  I have resisted planting tommies in my garden because of their tendency to take over but as Crocus pulchellus has done just that I have decided I may as well have colour in spring to go with all the crocus leaves.  I bought a couple of pots of 'Barr's Purple' at Dunblane on Saturday and will buy more dry bulbs before Autumn.

Not much colour in my garden just now (apart from white and green) but plenty in the greenhouse now Cyclamen pseudibericum is flowering.