After a successful thread started back in March 2020 at the start of the first lockdown, its probably about time to start a new one for 2022. Thank you to all for your contributions, no matter how small or big, each has been valuable and interesting, and hopefully you will continue to contribute to the 2022 thread.
The old thread: Plants, flowers and shrubs; Share your photos here can be viewed on the link below
https://community.rspb.org.uk/chat/f/the-tea-rooms/206836/plants-flowers-and-shrubs-share-your-photos-here#pifragment-4313=1
I'll kickstart this thread with some snowdrops that have come out in flower, crocuses will be out in many places soon, and then daffodils, and many more to follow throughout the year, and it will be nice to see what wild or garden plants, flowers or shrubs you come across on your wanders or around your garden. Without these plants, flowers and shrubs, nature would struggle to survive, they all a part of the valuable cycle of life, insects need them, birds need the insects, and so on through to the mammals,
I mentioned daffodils, these shoots are growing very well among the snowdrops, and it won't be long before the bluebells start showing shoots...
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
So far in the garden Iv only had to take out 2 wildflowers one was the same as the one in the bucket above that looks like dandelion leafs And With the seedlings that arnt Nasturtiums more have survived than ones Iv had to take out. Even ones of the same species as the other. . It’s interesting the Sorrel Survived the frost aswell as most of the seedlings so it seems a couple of them have also managed to survive the frost. it’s also interesting one of the flowers that were completely covered in sleet or snow then frozen by ice in my pot also survived. Now it’s as if nothing ever happened and there just continueing as they were before the frost. After frost it rained. The water probably melted the ice on the leafs not just ontop of the plant. Which could be one of the reasons for its survival maybe