#winter flowers

[assassin1513]

🤍⚜️🤍Winter Roses���⚜️🤍

[moer-koffie]

2023.05.26 Africa Red-eyed Bulbul munching a kapok tree’s flower

[nataliliv]

Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it now 🤟🏻☕️ Have an excellent day! ❄️❄️❄️✰.:｡✧.｡:｡ ⛄🌨️☔❄️⛄

[sunshein86]

The 13th of December, 2024

[drzewobojczyni]

For a long time, I've been fascinated with winter-blooming plants, so when I saw this challenge on DA, I immediately knew what to draw!

Pictured: winter jasmine (yellow), fragrant viburnum (pink), garden pansy (red), witch hazel (orange), and black hellebore (white, ironically)

DeviantArt

[flowerishness]

Helleborus (hellebore, Christmas rose)

It's fast approaching the end of hellebore season and, as the common name Christmas rose implies, this is another cheerful winter-blooming flower. The hellebores have had a tough time in Vancouver this year. After a very mild winter, on January 12 the temperature suddenly fell to - 14.4 C (6 F) followed by more than 30 cm (1 ft) of snow. All the snow melted and three days later it was gone but the damage was already done.

Believe me, the local plants did not enjoy this 'extreme weather event'. We have brown foliage and heavy leaf drops all over town. Laurels and rhododendrons have been particularly hard hit and provincial grape vines will produce no fruit this year. Considering all this bad news the hellebores have done surprisingly well. Not to worry, time marches on and spring is well under way. Next stop, daffodil season. I can hardly wait!

[los-plantalones]

helleborus x ballardiae ‘camelot’

[maureen2musings]

photographykaisa

[theshyshewolf]

Frozen flowers

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 6 March 2024

A winter flowering plant Iris lazica is closely related to Iris unguicularis but has deeper blue flowers and glossy green leaves. Iris lazica thrives in part shade, does well in heavier soils and flowers from December to March.

Jill Raggett

[more-than-ideas]

winter flowers

[nataliliv]

Winter garden ❄️⛄🌨️❄️

[sunshein86]

The 15th of January, 2024

[indigrassy]

Winter sprouts

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[flowerishness]

Hamamelis vernalis (Ozark witch-hazel)

The 'witch' in witch-hazel has nothing to do with black cats and broomsticks. It's actually derived from the Olde English word wice, meaning "pliant" or "bendable", a reference to its twigs and branches. At this time of year, it's pleasure to see anything in bloom but this magnificent specimen is really putting on a show.

There are five species of witch-hazel, one from China, one from Japan and three from North America. This particular species, Hamamelis vernalis, is native to the Ozark Mountains (Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas). It's quite tall for a witch-hazel, maybe 15 feet, and it blooms in late winter, just before it 'leafs-out'. It has strongly scented flowers and hybrids are available in pink, bronze and red but I think I like it in the original yellow the best.