Oh, no! It’s a puny showing for January 2009, Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. To add more value to the winter walk, I added a few more categories: Yello Yellow, Brilliant Berries, Valuing Variegation, Regarding Reds and Looking Ahead – those plants getting ready to bloom.
Thanks go to Carol/ May Dreams Gardens for starting Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day 2 years ago next month – well done.
If you are visiting this post and are participating as well, please let me know so I don’t miss seeing yours.
GBBD
Winter Honeysuckle
Hellebore's first bloom
Rosemary
Tea Olive
Henry Lauder's Walking Stick
YELLO YELLOW
Pinus strobus
BRILLIANT BERRIES
Viburnum
Nandina
VALUING VARIEGATION
Golden Euonymus in a pot going up my front steps
Variegated Holly Osmanthus
Variegated Juniper
Abelia
Variegated Radican Gardenia
REGARDING REDS
Loropedlum
Curly Weeping Willow 'Scarlet Curls'
Needle Tread Nandina
LOOKING AHEAD – ALMOST IN BLOOM
Flowering apricot, Dawn, almost in bloom
Daphne - almost
Pieris japonica’Valley Valentine’
Gardening With Confidence ™ 
Cameron (Defining Your Home Garden) said
Good show!
gardening with confidence said
Thanks, but I’m am totally jealous that your Daphne is blooming – what’s up with that?
flowergardengirl said
I hope you put a blanket on your Daphnes. Burr it is cold in this state tonight. Helen, you have a ton of variety in your garden. One of each.
I like your pot with berries at the top. Where have you been? You haven’t been by my blog in a month of Sundays.
gardening with confidence said
I visit with your blog everyday FGG and love it; I just don’t always stay for tea.
tina said
Just wonderful! Especially that daphne. So pretty. Can you tell me what kind of berries are mixed in with the pansies?
gardening with confidence said
Yes, Tina, I top dress my containers with fresh, whole cranberries each Thanksgiving to give color to the pots all through the winter. They last and do beautifully ALL winter while adding much needed color.
kk said
It is amazing how much more colorful and alive a winter garden is , when you select the right plants. All week Ive been watching a humming bird visit my Mahonia bealeii, now in bloom, from my kitchen window. who knew hummingbirds were still in the neighborhood in January.
Kathy said
You were too kind to call my pitiful Christmas cactus bloom well done, but I am glad you stopped by to visit. Just wait till you see my snowdrops–in March!
Michelle said
Nice looking textures and colors .
The buds on the daphne and pieris are beautiful.
Here’s to the winter garden !
commonweeder said
The only view from my window (and I am definitley not going OUT, it is 4 degrees) is of snow covered fields. There is not much color indoors either, so the Inaugural Poppies are looking pretty good, on one of my 2 GBBD posts.
Les said
Looks like you have a good mix of color and texture, even if the true flowers are few in number now. I wish I had room for some of what you have planted.
p.s. I writing this about 20 miles south of Chincoteague as the gull flies.
Jen said
Super potos! I planted some Helebore this fall and was wondering when it would show. Nothing here yet, but at least I know now what to look for! Love that Needle Tread thing too – I don’t think I’ve seen that before.
VP said
Helen, you fared better with capturing your honeysuckle and rosemary blooms than I did. Like you I’m apprciating winter foliage a lot at the moment!
Lori said
We seem to have a lot of plants in common, even though I’m in Texas. My tea olive and winter honeysuckle aren’t blooming yet, though. You have a lot of great foliage plants– I especially like the bright red nandina.
gardening with confidence said
kk, what a sweet vision, you looking out the window watching the hummingbird in My Garden.
gardening with confidence said
Kathy, Well done because a light weight wouldn’t have bothered!!! Even with one bloom, you participated.
gardening with confidence said
Les, Chincoteague on business? That’s a tough break. I guess it would be better if it were fall. Or better yet, during the 4th with the pony crossing. Do they still do that?
gardening with confidence said
VP, I love a winter garden and with our zone 7b we have a lot to offer. However, most people don’t take advantage of it. Today I worked with my team maintaining the JC Raulston Arboretum’s winter garden. I’ll do a post on this effort next week. It is so unbelievably beautiful – colors, textures, flowers, berries, plant combinations that will knock you socks off – oh, better not look then, too cold out there.
Carol, May Dreams Gardens said
Your garden does indeed have a lot of bloom to offer, down there in “Elizabeth Lawrence” country. She was sure right, we can have blooms every month of the year.
Thanks for joining in for bloom day!
gardening with confidence said
Yes, Carol, we are indeed in “Elizabeth Lawrence” country in mind and spirit. Her garden is one of my faves. I chose to do volunteer work with the Garden Conservancy because her garden was under their protection. I wanted to help preserve it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Gracepete said
All nice plants but I’m most smitten with the “Radicans Gardenia.” With foliage like this who needs flowers?
nell jean said
Mama had winter honeysuckle. I recall that incredible fragrance, when nothing else was blooming in north Georgia. I’ve seen it in a few gardens down here.
Dee/reddirtramblings said
Well, I think all of that is music to my eyes. I need some outdoor blooms, but all of mine are frozen right now. Happy Bloom Day.~~Dee