Spring has sprung

[goldenangelanimal]

My spring bulbs have been coming up since before Christmas and I have two crocus that are ready to burst into flower, but when I looked as some of my other rubs today, I have got miniature iris that are in full flower

Despite all the horrendous wet and windy weather we have had here, they seem to overcome it and still bloom , they were a very welcome sight on a wet and miserable day

[captainbovine]

yes, it's a miracle how they come up, but they are flowers that like the cold. My winter tubs are coming through too, can't wait to see what I planted, I've forgotten!

[ed_blackadder_1]

I have primroses out and a couple of crocus, there are still leaves on my flowering cherry, budlea and widgelea, those are normally long gone by November.

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

I've had a camellia out since the first of the month, snowdrops out for about 10 days, crocus in full bloom and two or three Hellebores out.

The winter flowering clematis (napaulensis) is just breaking into bloom and there's colour in the daffodil buds, I love spring but I don't think we're there yet.

I was in Hayle last week and the osteospermums were still flowering, but it is very mild there.

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

Not really,  many come from countries where they are baked in summer (Greece and Turkey).  Most bloom much better if they can be in soil that dries out completely in summer.

[bitsnknots]

We've got a crocus ready for flowering and a couple of snowdrops.  Also, one of our dwarf irises in the front garden is in flower.  Normally, our dwarf irises only flower in February so that little one has done well.

[fishpieface]

Isn't it lovely to see these signs of new life?  We've got bulbs beginning to grow and

even more delicate things like dicentra just coming up.  However, I think there's still

a few cold nights to come and some of these little plants will wish they'd hibernated

a little longer!

I had cosmos flowering in the front garden until about three weeks ago, they'd flowered

continuously since about July, sometimes with hundreds of flower heads.  The frost

finally finished them off around Christmas.

Our garden is like a quagmire at the moment as we had our fence replaced and conifers

that had got too tall cut down.  The whole place seems to be muddy and disgusting and

the new flower bed I made and planted with crocosmia back in the summer is squashed

flat under all the mud and the old fence which fell onto it.  I can't find any of the crocosmia

but they may well recover when it dries out a bit.

[Anonymous]

Don't worry about the crocosmias, fishy - these things will survive a nuclear holocaust......................I've been trying to get rid of some for years! They've survived rotovators, Round-Up, assorted onslaughts with garden implements & scottish winters with floods & being buried under several feet of snow and temperatures of -16 for 3 months!

Love spring but we're not there yet - we tend to get our snow in Feb / March so there's still a way to go for us, anyway.

[ilove2patch]

Are Crocosmia & Montbretia the same thing?

[rose2008-2008]

All this Flowering abundance sounds lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.