Flower of the Day for a year - a Challenge!

[veggiechicken]

^^^ Its a Mahonia japonica https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/10734/...ponica/Details

[roitelet]

The leaves don’t look right for Laurel Christie. Is it possibly a Fatsia or Castor oil plant? Pretty though!

[Chrissyteacup]

Thanks VC! I’m sure there’s loads more you can all ID for me- seriously I’m rubbish but keen to learn! Hopefully come spring some will be a little more challenging!

[veggiechicken]

We like Challenges, Chrissy.

My Flower's a Gazania - shouldn't be around in this cold weather but I'm pleased to see it.

[Chrissyteacup]

The leaves don’t look right for Laurel Christie. Is it possibly a Fatsia or Castor oil plant? Pretty though!

Haha- it could well be had a look online but came up with them being the same thing? https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/7147/i...nica-i/Details

[veggiechicken]

The leaves don’t look right for Laurel Christie. Is it possibly a Fatsia or Castor oil plant? Pretty though!

Well spotted, roitelet. I'd say Fatsia japonica.
Funny how both the plants have "japonica - from Japan" in their names .

[Chrissyteacup]

I must have planned a Japanese theme

[veggiechicken]

Today, a rosebud - will it open or be zapped by winter?

[rary]

Finally have some flowers to put on again, though I doubt if they will last for any length of time first is a chrysanthemum

[Chrissyteacup]

One for yesterday as at work and one for today.... a pretty fushia (look I know what it is )

And a yellow flowering shrub (normal systems resumed not a clue what it is but it’s a flower in my garden)

[veggiechicken]

^^^ Winter Jasmine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasminum_nudiflorum

and a Gold Star for the Fuchsia

My flower is another bud, yearning to be a flower but probably won't make it this year. Awwww!!




Its a white Passion Flower and this is how the parent looks, covered in the remains of flowers, long past.

[Chrissyteacup]

Thanks VC like I said I have a lot to learn! So hope your prepared for many more plant id’s that are probably really easy- although I’m running out of flowers for this year I’ve been enjoying looking for them!

[Mark_Riga]

Showing this here as not sure where it would fit in. Some hawthorn flowering this week in a hedgerow near by. Never seen it flowering this time of year before. There is one red berry in the picture.


From the garden, a rose. There are other buds on it but unlikely to open now:

[Chrissyteacup]

I’m cheating today as it’s cold and wet and I was working last night so I’m staying inside, so here’s some cut flowers- some roses and alstroemeria my friend brought me round (to cheer me up been a bad couple of months!)

[roitelet]

Cheered me up too!!