Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day on the fifteenth of each month. Click over to her blog to see what's blooming in gardens around the world today. Here's what's happening in my zone 8 Western Washington garden.
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My Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide' seems to be happy enough now and is starting to bloom. Isn't this a little late for those to be starting?
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There are a lot of these in my garden because they seem to thrive on neglect and don't mind dry shade.
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Daphne odora. There's nothing quite as sweet and welcome as this fragrance in the winter garden.
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Primroses (cheating as these came home from the store already in bloom, those in the garden are a bit behind.)
Camellias japonica
My Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide' seems to be happy enough now and is starting to bloom. Isn't this a little late for those to be starting?
Galanthus.
Hellebores
There are a lot of these in my garden because they seem to thrive on neglect and don't mind dry shade.
Really, these are all different varieties and these are only about half of them.
Feel free to skip ahead if you're tired of the hellebore parade.
Whew, you made it!
Daphne odora. There's nothing quite as sweet and welcome as this fragrance in the winter garden.
Of course there's also Chimonanthus praecox (Wintersweet.)
The parade of winter continues with Lonicera fragrantissima, a hummingbird favorite.
Weedy but swell Euphorbia wulfenii
Garrya's tassels are so long that the wind blows them up onto the leaves into an unsightly tangle.
Arctostaphylos something or other
helleborus argutifolius
Sweet little violets are making inroads toward taking over the lawn. Hooray!
Viburnum × bodnantense ‘Dawn’ is no slouch in the fragrance department either.
Jasminum nudiflorum
Stachyurus praecox
It must be spring if the crocus are blooming, right?
Happy GBBD all!