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• Amoret

  10 January 2008, 04.15PM

  Snap! We have had one too, right in line of sight of the living room window. Bliss!

• David

  10 January 2008, 04.34PM

  I have had the Snowdrop's big brother the Snowflake in flower in my Swansea garden since early December. They used to start flowering at the end of January, but for the last couple of years they have flowered early.

• Rusty

  10 January 2008, 07.10PM

  Hi Pippa, in my small patch I have some snowdrops out as well as jasmine, viburnum, primroses, hellebores, cyclamen and, believe it or not, cowslips! In the Sir Harold Hillier arboretum we saw several groups of "January Gold" daffodils in flower on New Years Day.

• Liz Winney

  10 January 2008, 09.02PM

  I too, am eagerly awaiting my first snowdrops and making a daily inspection, but was greatly surprised last weekend to find a single deep pink flower of a schizostylis in a tub!

• Pippa Greenwood

  11 January 2008, 01.21PM

  ...and as if it knows it is now a star of the Gardeners' World Blogging world, and feels overcme by all the attention, my solitary daff is just being joined by a couple more, perhaps though they are simply being forced out of the soil by the vast quantities of RAIN going in to it!!

• Petrina

  11 January 2008, 01.46PM

  Living in the South West my drifts of Snowdrops are usually very close to blooming by now. But despite getting down on my hands and knees to search I have been unable to find a single one coming through.

• Ronnie

  11 January 2008, 05.56PM

  I was amazed to see just how many daffodils are in full bloom here in Bracknell.

• early daffs

  12 January 2008, 06.55PM

  HI I also have a daffodil that appears every year just before Christmas.Despite feeding it ,it never produces more than one flower!

• Pauline

  13 January 2008, 09.13PM

  I have one paper white fully out and I have seen the first snowdrop and crocus in my garden today here in Sheffield

• Rodney

  12 January 2008, 10.30PM

  You are not alone, our snowdrops put their heads up just before Christmas and have not moved since! But on the other hand we have 2 Anemone de Canen in flower.

• Sarah

  14 January 2008, 01.25PM

  The first of my January Gold Daffodils appeared in flower at the beginning of December. They are now all in full bloom in my south facing slopping front garden.

• Amoret

  14 January 2008, 01.16PM

  We are usually awash with snowdrops by now too and there's not even a leaf to show at the moment, we had a search yesterday. However, there are several clumps on a bank at the end of the village in full bloom. Sadly, the whole bank should be jaw droppingly white by now!!!

• Stella

  14 January 2008, 06.46PM

  We live in West Lancashire and have an oak tree that didn't produce one acorn last Autumn! The squirrels are somewhat miffed to say the least! Are we the only ones? On the other hand at the moment we do have a clematis with no leaves but two flowers about to bloom.

• cheryl

  15 January 2008, 08.35PM

  I feel completely left out. I do not have any daffs or snowdrops out yet. Some daffs have started to poke their little heads through the soil, but the snowdrops are nowhere to be seen. I live in Kent, in the so called mild south. All a bit of a puzzle!

• S-J

  15 January 2008, 08.54PM

  I moved to a new house in August and the garden was bare! I am pleased to say that all my plants are doing well (survived the move) and we have our first Daffs and loads of primroses in full bloom. With my Tulips already about 3 inches high.

• Callum

  16 January 2008, 02.01PM

  I thought it unusual that Daffodil SHOOTS (not flowers) had appeared on 1 January in my garden on the ISLE OF SKYE. This is much earlier than I would expect as we generally don't have a good show of daffodil flowers in this part of the world until end of March.

• simon birmingham

  16 January 2008, 02.43PM

  not a snowdrop in sight, daffs just starting to come though. roll on the spring, i need a garden fix

• Jand Leics

  17 January 2008, 11.51AM

  My snowdrops are now flowering thanks to the sunshine wed 16th I also have a few cyclamen showing a nice splash of colour. Am hoping the coffee grounds keep the slugs of my hellebore niger as the crown is full of buds

• VP

  17 January 2008, 10.25PM

  My first snowdrop bloomed last week, so this week I've started my annual snowdrop census. This occurs weekly until the numbers start to drop. Anything in bud or flower counts, if it's gone over it's excluded. This week's count is 144. Last year's maximum was over 1000, so there's still quite a way to go! I'll be posting progress on my blog

• Kay

  27 January 2008, 03.53PM

  Hi, im new to gardening, i have a african daisy someone bought me about 2yrs ago and it still ahsent flowered??! never seen it flower, its about 2ft now and woint stop growing up! Apparently, if you snap a bit off and put it in the ground it will plant itsellf, does anyone know about theses plants? would love to see it flower! Kayleigh.

• Ruffy

  08 February 2008, 02.14PM

  My challenge is to fill up gaps amongst the bulbs in the beds. When bulbs are ready for sale(SeptOct) the existing bulbs are resting and have become hidden to view. Any suggestions please? Second thought - having just purchased and planted 200 more new snowdrops in the green, can existing bulbs of all varieties be moved and split up when they have flowered and when they are still in the green and visible?

• Pauline. Cumbria

  21 February 2008, 11.10PM

  I have a pot full of snowdrops that have been in flower for about a week.I was lucky really because they all seemed to flower together.All my daffs are in bud as well,they seem abit earlier than last year

• Deb

  23 March 2008, 04.06PM

  Driving along the road to our home in Ireland it was observed that all of the daffodils were facing the same direction...can anyone explain why this would be so, is this common? so they change to face the sun? or is it the way the wind blows? Why is this so...?!