Aspidistra Nagoya Stars

The main garden minus hostas. The garden's path is a dry creek bed.

Variegated daphne with flower buds.

Hellebore Pink Frost

Next 3 are Hellebore Ice 'n Roses Red

Crocus buds already

Bud of Camellia Turandot

Bud of Camellia Hagoromo (Magnoliaeflora)

Helleborus foetidus Chedglow

Evergreen colors

Camellias with Illicium Florida Sunshine

Illicium Florida Sunshine with red stems.

Hellebore Cherry Blossom

Helleborus Nell Lewis

Camellia Sadaharu Oh

Buds of winter flowers

Helleborus Nell Lewis

Camellia Sadaharu Oh

Camellia Sadaharu Oh

Hellebore Cherry Blossom last weekend.

Evergreens

Japanese holly fern among dormant potted hostas.

Aspidistra, hellebore, and farfugium. Dormant potted hosta.

Aspidistra Stars and Stripes.

Nandina

Utog it is increasingly more satisfying to see such beautiful colors among all of your dormant hostas now. I wish I could say I had flowers to see from my kitchen windows. I shall have to purchase of of the hellebores “Ice and Roses Red.” The color is luscious!!

debra

btw——- been trying to figure out your HL ID as you r challenged me to do, how can notify you if your messages is set to closed———hahahaha, perhaps that was just a joke after all......although I admit I started to try.

Debra,
So glad you are home. As you can see, I sent you flowers to hasten your recovery!
Houzz has messages? Wow! I have no clue how to open/allow that feature.
When you figure me out, just add my initials to utog and l’ll know. :)

Wonderful to see winter blooms, makes me think about why do I live in Michigan when all I see of my garden is a white blanket?

Thank you for sharing.

what do you have under pot in z7 .. ???

or maybe you mean filled pots the vermin knock over????

ken

I've decided where I want to retire. Is the lot next door available?

Ken, the squirrels dig in the pots and knock the pots over. Sometimes the squirrels throw the minis out of the pots and keep digging. About once every week or so, I find a potted hosta lying on the ground with an empty, over-turned pot nearby. Squirrels have even dug up young hostas that were planted in the ground. The plaque of pests (squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, etc) keeps me busy. On a good note, I read somewhere that squirrel urine is good for root growth.

utog, wonderful photos! Your garden looks similar to mine, at least in regards to the large, I think maple trees? Do you battle tree roots with your hosta?

No hellebores here but I do have baby camellias that are being very SLOW and some established camellias that are getting ready to pop.

Oursteelers, the Pacific NW has an amazing climate! No wonder your hostas always look so happy! Mainly, I garden in the remnants of an oak-hickory forest. The hickory died from the high water table, I think. I garden around one red maple, as well. Nothing would grow naturally around the maple, but hostas, ferns, and hellebores are doing well so far. I am getting an eye on the tree root competition risk.

Yikes! Look at those thorns! An entire hedge of this would be a deterrent.

Some of our neighbors were allowing their dogs to wander far into our front yard via retractable leash. Then, their dogs would poop nearly on our front steps. Conveniently, the neighbors would leave the poop because they felt uncomfortable wandering that far into our yard to pick it up. So, we planted the hostility hedge at the front edge of our yard. It has worked well!

Thank you for the flowers! I have an autumnal cherry in the front and back yard in bloom, helebores, winter honeysuckle, edgewarthia buds, camilia buds and the forsythia has opened 2 little yellow flowers. The dafs have sent up 4 inches of leaves and the star magnolia has been doing sporatic blooms since Christmas--she's confused. Come soon spring! That hedge definitly says keep away.

Tonight we may get snow for the first time this winter. And it may even accumulate to...1.6 inches. The kids are super-excited. They are sure school will be canceled, because it always gets canceled when we see any accumulation. They are in virtual school, so we have already warned them that school will go on. Hope springs eternal. Today, just one picture.
Camellia Sadaharu Oh

Hahaha, utog—- school doesn’t even close here with 10 inches fallen!!

debra

The great snowstorm of this winter. School was not canceled, but fun was had before school.

Camellia Sadaharu Oh

The garden you know so well, but different today.

The side garden with snow.

The dogwood. :)

1/28/21

Liriope

Autumn fern

Stumps and ivy.

For the past few weeks, I have felt like the trees have been yearning for snow, especially at night. Silly, I know. This morning, they seem to be celebrating. I know that I am attributing my feelings to the trees, but there you have it.

Snow falling and in the 20's here. Love your hellebores. I've gotten more last year since I love how they look in the garden--however, some do have a habit of growing vigorously and I've had to divide and send some to a niece. Funny thing about those 30 foot long leashes--we have some owners on our street who have them. Unfortunately, they do let their dogs wander up to our house and yes leave a mess. One guy has three golden retrievers who get their leashes tangled since they are so long. It never seems to bother him that the dogs are wandering all over our yard, even when I am out there working in the yard. Some people just don't care. Our dogs were always on shorter leashes. Anyway, love your flowers, they look so bright!

Wow, a dog pooping in my yard, not being picked up!! I would have one extreme hissy fit! If I saw it happening, I would confront the owner and provide them the needed bag! Or, if I knew where the offender lived, I would pick it up and release it on their front door! Here you can be fined for it!! Thank goodness none of my neighbors or routine walkers does this. They are very courteous. But that hedge utog, that’s deadly looking and a great deterrent, without saying a word.......very clever!

debra

Carex, Aspidistra and the garden monster hellebore.

Illicium, Helleborus foetidus, Helleborus niger, and camellia Sadaharu Oh bud.

When I was growing up in Austin, Texas my dad had beautiful camellias. I might be on the lookout for some in my local nurseries this year!!