European Gardening: Winter Flowers, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I still have flowers on plants that should have stopped ages ago. The mild autumn must have started them off, but this cold weather still hasn't stopped some of them!

Apart from a reasonable show on the Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn', which should flower in mild spells over winter, I have fuchsias outside that have flowers, a couple in the cold greenhouse also.

The autumn flowering Camellias are doing well, they desparately need bigger pots or to go in the ground. I would have thought the hot summer would reduce their flowers, I managed to keep them watered but only just. It appears to be the opposite, they are flowering well.

I took this yesterday late morning when still at -1C. Today the flowers look OK, the transparent frozen areas still look the same but all the flower was crisp and frozen. Camellia Navajo