On 27/12/04 18:11, in article ,
"Rod" wrote:

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:47:05 -0000, "Trevor Appleton"
wrote:

My daffs are 4 inches high but not showing colour yet (Rijnveld's Early
Sensation, one of the earliest\). I spotted a Winter Aconite about to open
in the garden today and Celandine virtually open. Snowdrops are showing
white buds

Trevor
East Yorkshire

Mainly just the usual suspects though snowdrops are looking like about
a couple of weeks early but the thing that's exciting me most atm is
our young Daphne bholua is going to flower for the first time, so far
it seems to be a fairly undemanding plant so I'm hoping it's going to
be scenting the whole of the Camellia Walk in the winters when it's a
bit bigger.

In our experience that scents the whole house with just one sprig!
Marvellous plant. We have that in flower, L. purpusii, of course, a very
small flowered Fuchsia (the name of which completely escapes me!) some
Salvia involucrata just holding on to a bloom or two, Euryops pectinatus,
Sarcococca, snowdrops pushing through, and I saw a head of cow parsley in a
hedgerow yesterday! The lowest night temp. we've had so far is -2.
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Sacha
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