Chris Hogg On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:16:24 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

Quite a few people do this already but I thought I might give a nudge - if
time and weather permit, it would be interesting to hear where you live and
what is in flower, leaf or bud in your garden on Christmas Day.

It's been an odd year. In flower today (some only just!):

Euryops pectinatus (smothered in big yellow daisies)
Gazanias (when the sun shines!)
Gerbera jamesonii
Hebes (large flowered reddish purple hybrids)
Schizostylis coccinea major
Callistemon citrinus splendens (going over)
Osteospermum
Cyclamen, 'hardy' dwarf hybrids in white, pink, red and plum purple
Protea susannae (huge bud about to burst)
Camellia transnokoensis
Camellia japonica (a Carlyon hybrid from St. Austell, ?Jovey Carlyon)
Primula Wanda
Primula vulgaris
Eriocephalus africanus (South African rosemary)
Armeria 'Bees Giant'
Olearia semidentata (aka Henry Travers)
Kniphofia linearifolia
Kniphofia Thomsonii var. Snowdenii
Anigozanthus ?rufus (Kangaroo paw, red but more dwarf than the type)
Polygala dalmaisiana
Bergenia sp.
Erica perspicua (Prince of Wales heath, South African)
Erica viridiflora (South African)
Salvia sp. (evergreen shrubby, long open racemes of good mauve fls.)
Lampranthus hybrids (mesembryanthemaceae)
Ceanothus sp. (evergreen, dark blue fls. usually in early summer)

I don't know the full names of a number of my plants as they've been
begged, borrowed and stolen from many sources (I've even paid money
for a few!).

Down here on the coast in West Cornwall we've had no temperatures
below zero and hardly even any ground frost. On the day when it snowed
and the Bodmin bypass got snarled up and made the national news, the
temperature only briefly touched zero. But here the snow turned to
rain in an hour and washed it all away.


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

wow it sounds like a lot of you have beautiful flowers, vines etc growing everywhere. here in ontario canada we have got snow but ended up with some rain which did take some of it away over the last few days.
i hope you all have a wonderful christmas and blessings to you all.
sockiescat.