Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. 2 June 2025

Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. 22 December 2024

This post is linked to the Garden Blogger ’s Bloom Day on maydreamsgardens . It is an invitation to show what you have in salad days at this ambitious meter of the year . So do join in .

We have been comparatively favourable here in Suffolk with just a few light frosts . There are still a few brave loyalist hang on from summertime .

This is a wonderful littleErigeronwhich is always covered in flowers . As long as you suddenly head it , it keeps on flowering and it is not strange to have it in bloom in December .

Erigeron ‘Wayne Roberts

Erigeron ‘ Wayne Roberts

windflower x hybrida ‘ Adelaide Atkinson ’

I am surprised that this lovely Anemone is still in blossom , it is a snatch like the reliable ‘ Honerine Jobert ’ , but I think it is much better and it just keeps on flowering .

Erigeron ‘Wayne Roberts’

Erigeron ‘Wayne Roberts

Salvia microphylla var neurepia

I do n’t know how this little Salvia has supervise to keep going because all the other Salvias are looking very bedraggled . It is in a very sheltered spot though .

Eordium manescani

Anemone x hybrida ‘Adelaide Atkinson’

Anemone x hybrida ‘Adelaide Atkinson’

I get it on thisErodium . it is larger than many of its kinship group and looks rather like a geranium . It flowers all summertime long and as you see has n’t hand up yet . It self - seeds generously , but that is all right , there are always plenty of gardening friends who are captivated to take the baby .

Kniphofia rooperi

ThisKniphofiagoes on and on and into the wintertime with its bright orange beacon light up up a corner of the garden It allow a welcome splash of colour . AnIris foetidissimahas placed itself as luck would have it tightlipped by and its orangish seeds are a perfect match .

Salvia microphylla var neurepia

Salvia microphylla var neurepia

Chrysanthemum ‘ Chelsea Physic ’

With the Chrysanthemums we get into autumn boo-boo but this one ‘ Chelsea Physic Garden ’ is still rather late ; I have never had it in flower in December before . The photograph does n’t do it justice , each bronze flower looks as if it has been dot with gold . It is gorgeous .

Chrysanthemum ‘ Mei - Kyo ’

Eordium manescani

Eordium manescani

This lovely Chrysanthemum is still endure solid even though the ‘ Emperor of China ’ which is suppose to be recently - flowering is long gone . I love its delicate shadowiness . I trust Chrysanthemums are making a bit of a seed - back , they have been out in the cold for too long .

hesperantha coccinea ‘ Fenland Daybreak ’

I can hear people saying that ’s aSchizostylisisn’t it ? Yes it is , but we have to call itHesperanthanow . Do keep up . It ’s so unfair though , just when you ’d learnt how to spell‘Schizostylis’This one , ‘ Fenland Daybreak ’ is a lovely one .

Kniphofia rooperi

Kniphofia rooperi

Nerine bowdenii ‘ Stephanie ’

Is it chisel to have included this delicateNerinewhich is in the moth-eaten greenhouse ? It is unfearing and could grow happily outdoors but I conceive the flowers would have collapse by now alfresco .

Mahonia x media ‘ Lionel Fortescue ’

Chrysanthemum ‘Chelsea Physic’

Chrysanthemum ‘Chelsea Physic’

ThisMahoniais a must for this sentence of the year . It has n’t got the adorable aroma ofMahonia japonicabut it is a cheering passel on a gloomy December twenty-four hours .

genus Viburnum bodantense

Every garden should have a Viburnum bodantense because it bloom all wintertime and is great for picking .

Chrysanthemum ‘Mei-Kyo’

Chrysanthemum ‘Mei-Kyo’

genus Helleborus Republic of Niger

This Christmas originate is actually work to be in bloom for Christmas which is strange . I ca n’t take cite for its pristine appearance though , this is one of the industrial plant I bought a dyad of week ago for my newfangled bed .

Galanthus elwesii ‘ Barnes ’

hesperantha coccinea ‘Fenland Daybreak’

hesperantha coccinea ‘Fenland Daybreak’

Every year you see lector ’ letter to the newspapers saying that they have find out wood anemone out very early and is this a result of global warming ? Well , as every galanthophile knows this snowdrop flowers in November so this flower is belated if anything . I have a ball elsewhere which is almost over . Anyway whatever the time of year it is gorgeous .

Primrose

The delight of these small fountain Darling River is that they sometimes flower so early . I do opt flush which are harbingers of spring rather than hangers on from last summertime .

Nerine bowdenii ‘Stephanie’

Nerine bowdenii ‘Stephanie’

genus Helleborus

And this is a reminder for Hellebore bores and I am one of them that the season is nearly upon us . How ever many you have ( and they seed so generously you probably have lots ) you never , ever have enough .

19 Responses toGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day. 31 March 2025

You ’ve so many lovely still bloom ! We had a deep freeze that lasted for several days so all of the fall hanger on are now quite finished . I was outside yesterday cleaning up a large genus Musa basjoo that had collapsed after the freeze and discover that my Mahonia x medium is also blooming . You ’re right , it is a cheery peck on a dreary December solar day and hummingbird love it ! Happy GBBD !

How lovely to see that there is still colour to be find at this time of class ! A garden near me has lot of Nerine bowdenii ‘ Stephanie ’ on show . I ’ve been wanting to cognize the name of them and now after reading your post I know . Thanks !

I enjoy your December bloom Chloris . Interesting to see ‘ Barnes ’ in flower – one of the many snowdrops on my indirect request list . As for hellebores being boring – never ! 🙂

Mahonia x media ‘Lionel Fortescue’

Mahonia x media ‘Lionel Fortescue’

It ’s very beguiling to seek out former flowering snowdrops and hellebore . At this fourth dimension of twelvemonth I just require Spring to get in , and quick !

So true about the Hellebores ! favourable you to still have blooms . I have none , and will have none until March or April . That ’s just how it is , and I ’ll have to be content with indoor blooms and viewing blooms on other beautiful web log like yours until then . endearing , lovely post !

Viburnum bodantense