New Year’s Day 2018 Flower Count

New Year’s Day 2018 Flower Count in papi Jo’s garden.

  1. periwinkle Vinca major
  2. alpine heath Erica carnea
  3. sweet box Sarcococca confusa (buds)
  4. Darley Dale heath Erica x darleyensis ‘Silberschmelze’. In flower from October to April!
  5. Erica lusitanica ‘Le Vasterival’. In flower from November to March.
  6. Schizostylis coccinea Pink Princess (?)
  7. Chinese sacred bamboo ‘Brightlight’ Nandina domestica ‘Brightlight’. In flower almost all year round.
  8. rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Pointe du Raz’
  9. Skimmia Japonica ‘Rubella’ (buds)
  10. lesser calamint Calamintha nepeta (only 2 flowers left)
  11. perennial candytuft Iberis sempervirens
  12. Sweet Pea Bush Polygala myrtifolia (the last flower of the season)
  1. Diosma hirsuta ‘Pink Fountain’. A very early start this season.
  2. Mexican orange Choisya x dewitteana ‘White Dazzler’ (only one flower today!)
  3. Mexican fleabane Erigeron karvinskianus
  4. penstemon ‘Apple blossom’
  5. rose flower carpet Yellow Sunshine Rosa ‘Noason’ ‘Celina’
  6. Geranium renardii
  7. Rosa ‘Madame Alfred Carrière’. Likes to flower at odd times throughout the year!
  8. obedient plant Physostegia virginiana ‘Bouquet rose’
  9. penstemon ‘Garnet’
  10. Narcissus Tazetta ‘Paperwhite Ziva’
  11. hellebore ‘Pink Frost’ (buds)
  12. seaside fleabane Erigeron glaucus.One of the last flowers of the season