January2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Knud]

So many nice pictures to stir a mid-winter longing for spring, thank you all.

Here we are having a wet and mild January, which certainly stirred this Iris Evening Twilight into action. We get hellebores and occasionally snowdrops flowering in January, but I have never seen an Iris out this early.

Knud

[Leena]

Very nice and early Helleborus thibetanus
(in the previous page)

[John85]

Jozef
Not so far away from where I live Daphne laureola subsp laureola grows wild.
If you are interested send me a pm.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

1) Out here, Ranunculus calandrinoides is looking good ! Frost is coming though.... 
2) Helleborus sternii - Hawthorne strain  Blackthorne strain opened it's first flower !
3) Saxifraga "Vecerni hvezda" is my earliest Sax opening.

[David Nicholson]

Is there a typo there Luc (for the Hellebore). I haven't heard of the Hawthorne Strain but there is a Blackthorne Strain originally produced by Robin White at his Blackthorne Nursery.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Oops..... senior moment, David.    Of course it's Blackthorn strain !
Thanks for pointing it out ! 

[Jozef Lemmens]

Two more winter flowering Daphnes.

Daphne mezereum 'Alba'

   

and Daphne mezereum 'Bowles Variety'. The latter one has smaller flowers, but probably they are propagated from seeds and there will be lot of variation.



Daphne x hybrida is a hybrid between D. odora and (probably) collina. This plant isn’t hardy (in Belgium).

      

[Natalia]

The flowers - more than two months, before the foliage  - even longer.
Betula....

[ian mcenery]

The flowers - more than two months, before the foliage  - even longer.
Betula....

Natalia very atmospheric

This plant I found flowering under the staging it had been in a trough until the trough broke up during some building work and I had meant to replant it in the replacement trough. Scoliopus bigelowii

[Jozef Lemmens]

Two small Dionysias.

Dionysia 'Ewesley Theta'       and Dionysia 'Ludek Zvolanek'.  Both are hybrids between D. afghanica and tapetodes.

             

[David Nicholson]

Obviously the touch of a Master Jozef. Beautiful.

[Darren]

'Ludek Zvolanek' looks very close to afghanica - beautiful.

[Maggi Young]

Ludek is the brother of ZZ the StoneRider - who has tonsilitis and is ill in bed when he had hoped to be travelling to Denmark.... for more work with huge stones at Bangsbo. .

[Natalia]

 Ian, thank you...   Scoliopus bigelowii.... ооооо....plant my dreams, but it is just a dream - we have it too cold.

   Jozef -  Вeautiful Dionysias!!!

[Jozef Lemmens]

Thanks for your nice comments.