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.
And on that note, it seems a good moment to wish everyone a very happy
Christmas from Ray and me and a prosperous New Year with long, sunny, happy,
gardening days when it rains only at night. Welcome to Camelot! ;-)

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
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.
And on that note, it seems a good moment to wish everyone a very happy
Christmas from Ray and me and a prosperous New Year with long, sunny,
happy,
gardening days when it rains only at night. Welcome to Camelot! ;-)

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

With luck I should have a few rose flower in bloom.

On 22/12/05 19:51, in article
, "Draven"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
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.
And on that note, it seems a good moment to wish everyone a very happy
Christmas from Ray and me and a prosperous New Year with long, sunny,
happy,
gardening days when it rains only at night. Welcome to Camelot! ;-)

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

With luck I should have a few rose flower in bloom.

Happy Christmas to all in the UK, I will have petunias, geraniums,
pansies, bouganvillia, money plant and, perhaps, a Strelitzia Regina
out in my garden, have just planted my fressias, tomato seed and ipomea
seed.

Mike

In message .com,
" writes
Happy Christmas to all in the UK, I will have petunias, geraniums,
pansies, bouganvillia, money plant and, perhaps, a Strelitzia Regina
out in my garden, have just planted my fressias, tomato seed and ipomea
seed.

And the same to you Mike. Don't forget about us here in the old
country.
--
June Hughes

On 24/12/05 8:25, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

Can't do it for tomorrow because later this morning I'm off to the
Midlands to spend Christmas and the rest of the holiday with my
family. So, today will have to do and the following are either in
advanced bud or full flower:

Brugmansia sanguinea
Cuphea micropetala
Euryops chrysantheoides
Hardenbergia violacea
snip of fabulous plant list

Poor David - such a dull garden. ;-))) Have a wonderful Christmas and of
all those lovely plants you have flowering outside, I think I envy you the
Hardenbergia the most. It's exquisite, IMO, and ours, grown in one of the
glasshouses is almost always overlooked.

--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

The message k
from Sacha contains these words:

Quite a few people do this already but I thought I might give a nudge ...

Not really had time to look round properly but our Lapageria is in bloom.

Jennifer

On 24/12/05 22:10, in article ,
"Jennifer Sparkes" wrote:

The message k
from Sacha contains these words:

Quite a few people do this already but I thought I might give a nudge ...

Not really had time to look round properly but our Lapageria is in bloom.


Well, there you are! And what else will you find tomorrow..........? ;-)
Happy Christmas to you both.

--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

In message , Sacha
writes
Quite a few people do this already but I thought I might give a nudge ...

Not really had time to look round properly but our Lapageria is in bloom.


Well, there you are! And what else will you find tomorrow..........?
;-)

Early Christmas morning walk round the garden with my old girl shows a
distinct reversal to a decade or more ago: unlike recent years, when
there were always roses etc., this year six weeks of almost daily frost
has done for just about everything, except the faithful prunus
subhirtella autumnalis and, of course, the winter jasmine. I live in
hope that it has also done for some of the pests and diseases of recent
years!

A happy Christmas to all!

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

It seems very odd here seing 'winter' jasmine flowering with passion
flowers in the same hedge. Weather today is warm and sunny, skies
mainly blue with a scattering of white clouds. Have just had to water
all my window boxes and tubs as we haven't really had more than a few
spots of rain for a few weeks. Apparently the cool weather we have had
for the last few days is very unseasonal and it is normally like this.
Strange to be wearing t shirts outdoors at this time of the year.

Mike

"Klara" wrote in message
...
In message , Sacha
writes
Quite a few people do this already but I thought I might give a nudge
....

Not really had time to look round properly but our Lapageria is in
bloom.


Well, there you are! And what else will you find tomorrow..........?
;-)

Early Christmas morning walk round the garden with my old girl shows a
distinct reversal to a decade or more ago: unlike recent years, when
there were always roses etc., this year six weeks of almost daily frost
has done for just about everything, except the faithful prunus
subhirtella autumnalis and, of course, the winter jasmine. I live in
hope that it has also done for some of the pests and diseases of recent
years!

A happy Christmas to all!

--
Klara, Gatwick basin
Thanks for the reminder! made the effort this morning while waiting for
children to appear to have a quick whiz around.
I noticed the following
Acacia retonoides
Acacia baileyana
Mahonia x media
Viburnum bodentense
Euryops
Tibouchina urvilleana
Lapageria's, rosea, Flesh Pink, Nash Court, Alba and Beatrix Anderson.
Correa alba
Scilla madeiriensis
Buddleja madagascariensis (several other Buddlejas nearly there)
Coronilla valentina
Eupatorium ligustrinium
Solanum laxum Album
Clematis cirrhosa balearica
Clematis fasicuilifolia
Camellia 'St Ewe'
Was really quite surprised as we don't try at this time of year! :~)
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

Been far colder than usual in Plymouth this autumn just gone but in flower
are
1 English Rose
Periwinkles (Don't ask!)
Autumn flowering camelia
Heathers
Fuschias
One English Marigold
One foxglove

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

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.

In my garden in Edinburgh (heavy frosts) there are winter-flowering
jasmine, fatsia japonica, senecio, viburnum and campanula and in the
micro-climate in front of the house more campanula, a variety of roses
and pelargoniums. Cyclamen are thinking about it! ;0))
Happy Xmas to you all.