February 2020 in the Northern Hemisphere

[ian mcdonald]

Trond, maybe you could plant shrubs around the edge of your land which the deer would prefer to eat and also act as a wind break.

[Tristan_He]

A few snaps from our garden in a relative lull during Storm Dennis...



Scilla mischtschenkoana



Ypsilandra tibetica. The leaves always look a bit yellowish at flowering time unfortunately, maybe I should move it to a shadier spot.



Saxifraga 'Gregor Mendel'.



Galanthus 'Primrose Warburg' (or possibly 'Spindlestone Surprise', I forget). The label is in there but I like to keep them buried as they are unsightly and tend to get lost / illegible if exposed. This clump is starting to look nice now, from a single bulb I bought about 5 years ago. I find it much more vigorous than 'Wendy's Gold'.



Various snowdrops (mostly 'Atkinsii' but also a little 'Diggory') with a nice white hellebore.

[Tristan_He]

A nice plum hellebore seedling.



Helleborus foetidus.



A snowdrop of elwesii persuasion.



Galanthus 'Cow House Green'. Increases veeeery slowly, but seems healthy enough.



Cyclamen coum and Narcissus cyclamineus in the early woodland area.

[Tristan_He]

Kniphofia bruceae, an interesting winter-flowering poker from SA, from Silverhill seeds some years ago. This is perfectly hardy for me but the flowers often get frosted. This year it was fine...



...except that some of the flower stems have been flattened by Storms Ciara / Dennis.



Galanthus 'Merlin'



Hamamelis 'Orange Beauty'



Hamamelis 'Barmstedt Gold'

[Tristan_He]

Phyllostachys aureosulcata



Corydalis malkensis



Galanthus woronowii

[annew]

Sometimes I need just a flash or two of blue to set off all my yellow daffs and 'drops. Some Hyacinthellas and Scillas are just the job!

[Hoy]

Trond, maybe you could plant shrubs around the edge of your land which the deer would prefer to eat and also act as a wind break.

Ian, this is not a bad idea. I have some shrubs barring the access to the garden and I have planted a few more. However it is difficult to plant on all sides of the property.

[Gerdk]

Just two shrubs - closely relatet

Forsythia ovata - the earliest of the wild species (I guess?)
and
what we call the White Forsythia in Germany - Abeliophyllum distichum

Gerd

[Hannelore]

Spring is definitively approaching

[Yann]

It's spring everywhere, at this rate in april everything will be burnt?

[annew]

I hope not literally...

[Leena]

I have admired so much everyone's spring pictures, especially Tristan's clumps of snowdrops.

Here Eranthis have started to flower in the last few days, both E.hyemalis and also the other kind, which I don't know if they are E.cilicica or E.x tubergenii (they were bought as E.hyemalis).
Last spring I sowed fresh seeds of Eranthis and also they have now germinated well (pots were buried in bed outside)  .

[shelagh]

Found in one of the cold frames Primula Julius Ceasar with a couple of interlopers.

[David Nicholson]

Pieris japonica 'Valley Valentine'

[Carolyn]

 Super colour, David.