European Gardening: Winterwatch?, 1 by sueone

sueone wrote:
I went for a wander round the garden today,(first time properly for weeks I'm sorry to say) and was really surprised at what was up and flowering.

I have Abutilons on my North facing patio that have flowered non-stop through the winter, a Melianthus has for the first time ever just coming into flower? (this has never happened ever in the summer even!)
and when I looked at the flower bed right at the top of the garden, the cannas are coiming up through, and about 6" tall already.

Bees were buzzing around, ladybirds crawling over the plants...a blackbird chirping threateningly at me, guess he thought he had sole rights to the top garden after being deserted for so long!

But, boy did it feel good to be out there again, even if the amount of work that needed doing looks posatively overwhelming...........