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I've got busy lizzies, marigolds, tagetes, gazania, salvia, dahlia, Japanese anenome, begonia tuberous & fibrous, antirrhinum, penstemon, sedum, cyclamen, polyanthus,yellow buddleia and a couple of roses. Admittedly all are a bit confused by the weather, bedraggled and neglected. I may have a single tomato flower on a forgotten plant in the gh, does that count? Also a rather magnificent Christmas cactus indoors.

Spotted a clematis still in flower yesterday and Viburnum × bodnantense is flowering - difficult to spot as it was underneath an apple tree but has now escaped and spends most of its time flowering in the canopy.

I have Zephirine Drouhin roses in flower - forgot to add those to my list.

I can add Camellia to my List now. Its always in flower by Christmas but is earlier than ever this year.

December's flowers are few and far between here. Outdoors a couple of polyanthus, winter jasmine and a very sad and cold straggly antirrhinum. Indoors a Christmas cactus and P's phalaenopsis (rescued from the empty house nextdoor) has one flower on an old flower spike and two new flower spikes growing. It's making a special effort because he talks to it.

Pansy
Lupin
Carnations
Fuchsia

Lupins & carnations really not happy with the frost. Unsurprisingly.

Oooh, I forgot pansies.

Camellia
Hellebore
Fuchsias
Schizostylus
Calendula.

Dahpne, Hellebores, Viburnum × bodnantense, and Sarcococca all highly scented.

And on a walk on Monday round the Peckforton Hills, there was plenty of gorse flowering.
Before Christmas, in the nearby village of Bunbury, there were daffodils flowering in the verges.

I could only find winter jasmine and polyanthus, with a leftover tagetes in the gh.