Into the new year

Fat balls attract all sorts, here a female blackcap, also sparrows, tits, robin and many others.

 Winter pansies offering colour

 Winter honeysuckle

 Double hellebores

 Winter box, sarcococca

 Winter jasmin

 early snowdrops

 primulas

 and for leaves, heuchera

 and pulmonaria

Happy New Year, 2013.

Inside

Amaryllis

 Orchid

 and coleus for leaf colour.

From the conservatory

A range of leaves and flowers flowering now in the conservatory.

 Fuchsia

 Kananchoe

 Arbutilon

 Mandevilla

 Pelargonium

 Streptocarpus

 Orchid (Phalaenopsis)

Christmas trees

Cheerful indoors, anyway. The Christmas tree, and a former Christmas tree 25 years ago, bought with roots.

Frost!

This is to mark 12-12-12 - 12th December 2012.
The weather for the past month has been atrocious, and we have had heavy frosts for several days now. What has not been put under protection may not survive - and even the greenhouses are not totally safe.
Here anyway are some frosty scenes from this morning

Winter planting

Photographed in November,
A late hibiscus

 nerines

 ahlstromeria

 dahlias

 pineapple lily

 heather and cyclamen

 winter pansies over bulbs

Last gasp

These were taken before the frosts and horrid wet weather
That wonderful corydalis

 the mixed border

 dahlias in the greenhouse

 pots

 the last roses

 hot lips and friend kaffir, front

 and back