Christmas Flowers and Berries 2023
After weeks of seasonably cool weather and regular soaking rains, Christmas day was cloudy and mild. Textbook December weather brought forth many of our most loved winter flowers; quite different from last year’s Christmas cold snap that froze many blooms and buds. Of particular note this year were the many perfect blooms from one of the older plantings of Narcissus romieuxii. We look forward to future Christmases with mass plantings of these nodding, straw yellow, hoop-petticoat daffodils.
Flowers
Camellia japonica (many!)
Chaenomeles ‘Crimson and Gold’, ‘Chojubai’
Chimonanthus praecox, yellow semi-double; species
Crocus sieberi, C. imperati
Cyclamen hederifolium, C. coum, C. cilicium
Daphne, variegated
Edgeworthia chrysantha
Erica carnea, pink, white, E. x darleyensis ‘Arthur Johnson’, E. x ‘Silbershmelze’, pink
Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Snowcream’
Galanthus elwesii, G. e. “Sandra Lutz”, G. e. var. monostictus
Helleborus foetidus, H. argutifolius, H. x sternii, H. niger, H. x media, H. x nigercors, H. orientalis, H. x hybridus
Iris unguicularis
Enemion biternatum
Jasminum nudiflorum
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum, and seedlings
Magnolia x ‘Sandra’, M. x ‘Donna’
Mahonia x lindsayae, M. napaulensis ‘Grayswood hybrid’, M. x media, ‘Arthur Menzies’, ‘Winter Sun’, ‘Charity’, ‘Lionel Fortescue’
Narcissus panizzianus, N. romieuxii
Osmanthus fragrans
Phlox subulata, white, purple, pink
Primula vulgaris, hose-in-hose, yellow
Rosmarinus officinalis, 2 forms
Spiraea thunbergii, yellow leaved
Verbena canadensis, white, purple, red
Berries or Fruit
Belamcanda chinensis
Berberis thunbergii
Danae racemosa
Hedera helix ‘Poetica Arborea’
Ilex vomitoria, I. x attenuata, I. decidua ‘Pocahontas’, ‘Council Fire’, ‘Finch’s Gold’, I. opaca
Iris foetidissima
Juniperus chinensis
Nandina domestica, yellow or red berries
Poncirus trifoliata ‘Flying Dragon’, yellow fruit
Pyracantha
Rohdea japonica
Roses with fruit
Ruscus aculeatus
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus