European Gardening: Winter Flowers, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Thanks Terri, the Camellias are fine, they can take frost without damaging them too much (not like the spring types), just some clear patches on the petals of Navajo. The roses look OK too, the red one may still open. We've had frost to -4C so they must be tough! Alpine Sunset only had a small clear patch on a petal too. Quite amazing really!

That is really amazing to have an Iris in flower now, I. unguicularis is a winter flowering species but that doesn't look to have any of it in it.

This is Fuchsia President George Bartlett in the greenhouse, it was slow to grow and started to move when the cooler weather came, it still has all it's leaves and these flowers undamaged. The leaf behind is a new leaf on a Pinecone ginger, there is another newer leaf, that looks like it could be quite hardy!