Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. January 2014

I am join the Garden Bloggers ’ Bloom Day this calendar month which is hosted byMay Dreams Gardens . At last things are waking up in the garden and as we have not had any harsh weather condition this winter everything seems really early .

Fragrance seems such a feature of the winter garden . give me pleasure to appear at and to whiff at the bit there is :

Mahonia japonicawhich is just coming into bloom now has an dainty fragrance of lily - of - the valley . Mahonia x media‘Charity ’ and ‘ Lionel Fortescue ’ are nearly over now just as this beauty is begin . The flowers are a paler yellow-bellied and the fragrance is much more intense than that of ‘ Charity ’ . If you want a powerfully perfumedMahoniathen this is the one to go for .

Viburnumx bodnantense ‘ morning ’ is sweetly scented and flowers all wintertime long .

Almost out but not quite there , Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’ is the most finely perfumed Daphne . In fact she is the most exquisitely scented plant in the garden . If I was only allowed one wintertime flowering industrial plant this is the one I would select . She is brilliant .

Lonicera x purpusii‘Winter Beauty ’ is a cross betweenLonicera fragrantissimaandLonicera standishii . I imagine it is the proficient of the wintertime - flower meeting house but like all of them it take up a lot of way . It is lovely for picking though .

I have already write about myChimonanthus praecoxthis month , but I have to include it because it is one of the sweetest smelling of the winter flowering shrubs .

Sarcococca hookeriana var digyna is my favouriteSarcococca . It has such pretty bloom and like all of its kin group it ship wafts of fragrance round off the garden . For those who do n’t be intimate it I care I could describe the scent but it defies description . Please go and bump one to sniff .

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Vesna ’ has lovely , long , yellow spidery petals with orange pith . it also has a fantastic Autumn coloration . Vesna was the Russian goddess of outpouring which seems appropriate for this beautiful crone hazel . This and ‘ Jelena ’ are always the first to make out into flower in my garden .

So there we have all the endearing fragrant plants Now we go on to a tree diagram which I have planted in every garden I have owned . It flower all wintertime , only turn back for a while if the weather condition is too cold and rimy .

Prunus x subhirtella‘Autumnalis Rosea ’ has the daintiest trivial heyday and looks marvelous against a low winter sky . ‘ Rosea ’ is the pinkish shape you could get it in white if you favor .

So that is the shrubs and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in bloom at the import . But on the ground exciting things are happening . Some of the Hellebores are out .

Helleborus x hybridus‘Walberton ’s Rosemary ’ was a new acquisition last year . I sleep together it , you’re able to see that it has ‘ niger ’ in its parentage by its large flowers which do n’t hang up their heads like those of H. orientalis . It come into flush before all the other hellebore . The orientalis buds are just opening and some of the paler ace are out . They always open up before the benighted ones .

Another favourite is the hybridHelleborus x ericsmithii’ . I have ‘ Winter Sunshine ’ and ‘ Winter Moon Beam ’ which are gorgeous but not yet out . Last week I check one of my New Year ’s resolutions and bought another Hellebore .

Helleborus x ericsmithii‘Shooting Star ’ . Well who could resist those creamy prime with the rose-colored pink vein back and pink bud ? These gorgeous loan-blend bred by Eric Smith have Sternii in their upbringing which gives them their adorable veinlike leaves .

Iris unguicularis‘Walter Butt ’ is my favourite amongst these dainty winter florescence irises . In a sheltered spot , it bloom before any of the others in my garden , the flower are great and they are fragrant . Who could ask for more than that ?

I ’ve already write recently about my wonderful , very earlyNarcissus minor‘Cedric Morris ’ . Here is another photograph of them still looking gorgeous .

ThisCyclamen coumis out before any of the others . it is a particularly pretty one with pewter coloured leaves .

Glanthus elwesiibut I ’m not sure which one . It is slightly fragrant though and courteous and former .

Eranthis hyemalisjust showing their headspring like little yellow buttons . Any day now there will be carpets of them but the first glimpse of the wintertime aconites peeping through the soil is always exciting . I take these photos yesterday because the sunshine was shining and the sky was blue . Today is dull and mirky but never mind the garden is waken .

Do visit Carol atMay Dreams Gardensto see what other gardeners have out in their garden today .

54 Responses toGarden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. January 2014

Good point to foreground odour in the garden at this time of the yr – so uplifting . I have H. ‘ Winter Moonbeam ’ too – a fabulous plant . front great even when it ’s not in flower 🙂

You do have quite a lot function on in your garden right now . Many of your plant are unknowns to me , so I can only use my imaginativeness to assay and get a sense of the aroma that ’s swirling around your garden . Loved the Mahonia and Viburnum blooms , and the Witch Hazel flowers always fascinate me .

Great mail . I call up fragrancy is always important in the garden .

depend like Spring!Happy Garden Bloggers ’ Bloom Day!Lea

have a go at it all the sweet - smelling peak that make winter a little more fair to middling . Happy Bloom Day .

So many lovely scents and flowers you have out there . I was out there yesterday near some sweetbox and it smelled so fantastic . This time of year when plant start to show up is so exciting .

It is so nice to see greenish and blooms and know there is still fragrance in this world , while my upstate New York garden slumbers in our winter stale . I love hellebore – but ours will not be bloom just yet .

I absolutely bed scented bloom and ca n’t get enough of them – this time of year really is the right time for scented bloom ! I buy my first Daphne last autumn and it is just days away from flowering , ca n’t wait ! I fit that it is unmanageable to describe scent and scented flowers in particular so the best fashion is to go out and fins some to sniff . flush it that , go to a garden centre in January and ask for the islet of scented plants in flower right now . There are surprisingly many ! felicitous GBBD !

Oh my goodness . Spring is very much in grounds in your garden ! I wo n’t have Hellebores until March , if I ’m lucky . That Witch Hazel blastoff is lovely . Happy GBBD !

I really enjoy your January bloom Chloris and could almost notice those mythical odor drifting on the melody . My fall flowering cherry has not stuttered once since coming into efflorescence 🙂

I think I was doing well with half a dozen things in efflorescence – your post just demonstrate to me that I must attempt intemperately with plants for next wintertime .

You have so many beautiful blooms this January . I maturate most of the industrial plant you ’ve featured but they are n’t all flower yet ! What kind of silly resolution is not buying any more Hellebores ? One can never have too many , right ? They ’re my favored wintertime visitors ! ( Please do n’t tell Santa Claus I sound out that ! ) genus Prunus x subhirtella ‘ Autumnalis Rosea ’ is a new works to me ; I will attempt it out !

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. January 2014