Top Ten January Blooms.

Here we are , the 23rd has get rushing round yet again with unseemly hurry and it is time for my monthly Top Ten Bloom update . January has been mild but very wet and all my favourite winter blooms are expect wonderful .

I have to start off with my all sentence wintertime favourite , Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’ . I know I am a Jacqueline eager , but she is arresting and the scent is sweet yummy and outstanding amongst all the fragrant wintertime flowers . Mine is in quite an exposed space in full Lord’s Day in my windy front garden and so it lose all its leaves in winter , but I think the masses of pink starry flowers fend out better on bare branches . It is a tall , unsloped bush raise to at least 2 metres in meridian .

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill’

This is the view attend into it from overhead and if you were stick out here I ’d have to hold back you from diving nose first into it because it is so heady .

Daphnes are short - lived and can get from sudden last and as I could n’t face January without Jacqueline I have plant another one in a sheltered speckle . This one keeps all its leaves in winter but the flowers do n’t stand out quite as well . By the path , never move a daphne once it is plant , it will certainly die if you do .

Daphne bholua ‘ Jacqueline Postill ’ in a sheltered spot .

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill’

I also haveDaphne odora‘Aureomarginata ’ and it is sweet fragrant too but not nearly as floriferous and it comes into bloom a bit later on , you may see in the photo that it is still in bud . It stimulate a rounded bush and does n’t grow tall . It is all very reasonably but once you ’ve seen ‘ Jacqueline Postill ’ no other daphne will do .

Daphne odora‘Aureomarginata ’

Snowdrops are pop up all over and I experience they are the marmite of the flowered cosmos , some people are besotted and others inquire what all the bickering is about and why galanthophiles pass time of day with their merchant ship in the air counting green spots . So I will just show a few to adjudicate to convince you they are not all the same . TakeGalanthus‘Reverend Hailstone ’ for case . He is a whopper , a robust snowdrop which can grow to 30 atomic number 96 tall .

Galanthus‘Reverend Hailstone ’

Galanthus‘Corrin ’ has green muscae volitantes on the out petal and is a pretty chassis .

Galanthus ‘ Corrin ’

Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ in a sheltered spot.

The earliest January Anemone quinquefolia in my garden are usually theelwesiihybrids . These are ones with the liberal glaucous leafage .

Galanthus elwesii

But this yr they are all coming at once . Galanthus‘Robin Hood ’ with the strong green hybridizing on the inside segment is unremarkably a bit after in blossom .

Daphne odora‘Aureomarginata’

Galanthus‘Robin Hood ’

Galanthus‘Anglesey Abbey ’ has apple light-green leave-taking .

Galanthus‘Anglesey Abbey ’

Galanthus‘Reverend Hailstone’

AndGalanthus‘Godfrey Owen ’ is certainly different as he has six inner section and six outer segment giving him a rounded shape . I ’ll cease now as I know not everybody shares my enthusiasm for Anemone quinquefolia but I desire I have shown enough to see that they are not all the same . I ’m afraid there will be more in February .

Galanthus ‘ Godfrey Owen ’

The first of my little sword lily are out . In the greenhouse I have a yellow one , Iris‘Katharine ’s Gold ’ . It is a babe of the fabulousIris‘Katharine Hodgkin ’

Galanthus ‘Corrin’

Iris‘Katharine ’s Gold ’

Some of theIris reticulatabulbs break up and disappear after a year or two in the garden but this piddling clump ofIris reticulata ‘ Harmony ’ is long lasting and blooms early outside . Next month there will be lots more of these fiddling reticulate irises . They are send for this because they have net like get across on their corms .

Iris reticulata‘Harmony ’

Galanthus elwesii

thump of the AlgerianIris unguicularis throw up there frail flowers throughout the wintertime . If you pick them in bud they will unfurl in water .

Iris unguicularis

It is always a treat when the first trivial jaundiced button of the winter aconites open up their buttercup flower . If they are happy they sow around everywhere . They have put themselves all along this honest-to-goodness , brick path .

Galanthus‘Robin Hood’

Eranthis hyemalis

I care to endeavor to include a clematis for every month of the class and this month I haveClematis cirrhosa ‘ Wisley Cream ’ It might voice like an unpleasant liver disease but its pick flower are a wonderful sight on a January day . I recollect it had died from drought in the summertime because its leaves dried up but it is utterly fine and looking glorious .

Clematis cirrhosa ‘ ‘ Wisley Cream ’

Galanthus‘Anglesey Abbey’

Little Narcissus minor ‘ Cedric Morris ’ which I showed in December is still in flower and in January it is joined by egg - yellowNarcissus‘Rijnveld ’s Early Sensation ’ which people are always amazed to see so early . It is a full sizing Narcissus pseudonarcissus which always bloom in January or February and unlike Cedric Morris it is readily uncommitted and not expensive .

Narcissus‘Rijnveld ’s Early Sensation ’

For carpets of winter colour you ca n’t perplex heathers . I bonk they are unfashionable nowadays and I notice there are none in the winter garden at Anglesey Abbey . I think it is a shame becauseErica carneadoes not need an acrid dirt and come in lovely shades of pink and livid . It must not dry out out in summer though . Here is a photo of part of my winter garden take more than twenty long time ago in my premature garden . Sorry about the quality , it is a photo of a slide . I love the effect and on a gay day it is alive with bees so I have put in some to my winter garden here although they do n’t do so well as the soil is lightheaded and dry out out faster in summer . The pallid paler one is‘Erica carnea‘Darley Dale ’ and the darker one is ‘ Kramer ’s Red ’ , it ’s not really red at all but it makes a nice contrast .

Galanthus ‘Godfrey Owen’

Erica carnea ‘ Kramer ’s Red ’

Erica carnea‘Darley Dale ’

I showed some of my Witch Hazels last calendar month and they are still looking unspoilt although the yellow I have n’t really got going yet so these will extend the time of year into February .

Iris‘Katharine’s Gold’

Hamamelis x intermedia”Livia ’

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Orange Peel ’

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Jelena ’

Iris reticulata‘Harmony’

Hamamelis x intermedia”Vesna ’

In the above exposure you may see one of the aboriginal hellebore , Helleborus foetiduswhich sow all round the garden . If you go a little further down here you will rule a part of the garden that you have n’t see before . It is the pond area and I do n’t usually show it because it needs a good tidy up but I am work around here at the mo . The crushed rock itinerary that goes all round it is readable now and the bank of the way of life will soon be tidy too . The big tree diagram in the centre is a weeping willow tree .

Here it is from the other side . The pond is about 4 feet deep at the import after all the rain we have had .

Iris unguicularis

But I digress . I was sing about hellebores . They are coming into bloom everywhere as I have them all over the garden but they will be at their best in February .

And now I have only one blossom to go so I will have to lose out my favorite sarcococcas , and anyway I have already cite them this year . So I will choose the rare and beautiful Lonicera elisaewhich blooms later than the more common wintertime flowering honeysuckle . It is an upright shrub and does n’t sprawl like the other unity . The fragrant flowers hang down and are slightly furred , pinkish and funnel shape – shaped .

Lonicera elisae

So there we have my ten . What are you enjoying in the garden this calendar month ? Please share your favourite January blooms and tie in to this post .

34 Responses toTop Ten January Blooms.

What a variety of blooms you have ! I ’m certain I ’d be gaga over Baron Snow of Leicester drops if there were a chance in hell on earth I could grow them here . I ’ve discovered that I ’ve somehow missed the sauceboat on Iris reticulata , however – my local garden guide say I can grow these bulbs so I ’ll be hunting down a postal service order supplier next twelvemonth as for some rationality I ’ve never seen the electric-light bulb for sale in local garden centers . It still fox me that the false hellebore bloom so much later here than in your climate , when the reversal is generally true in the case of plants we both can grow .

Such an amazing and inspiring mathematical group of blooms , Chloris .

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Eranthis hyemalis

Oh such treasure in your winter garden Chloris . Thanks for share them with us . I can never have my filling of snowdrops so looking frontward to seeing your February beauties . Amazed to see that copiousness of aconite grow through the old brick path . I have failed with them awfully so far when I have planted them .