Sunday, January 8, 2017

Flowers in January

I'm Canadian, and seeing flowers in January continues to amaze me.  You see it's hot here compared to Canada, but it's not THAT hot, it's not tropical.  If you go somewhere tropical, you aren't surprised by flowers in January, but here, it is chilly...our high today was about 14º and the low about 5º.  OK, but Canada standards, that's pretty darned nice, and it is pretty darned nice, but not something that shrieks out FLOWERS!!!!

So I am utterly delighted when they show up....

There's only one of these irises, and I think they may be my favourite flowers.....



This bush is madly pumping out the roses, we have them in all stages, and they smell wonderful.


The lemon tree has more lemons than sense, which I suppose is to be expected, but really, it grows so many lemons that it gets literally doubled over from the weight of them.


Jasmine, we have lots of this too......


Another rose, these don't smell as strongly, but are lovely, we've got one bloom and some buds.
 

Such a treat.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Treat for sure. No blossoms here! They look Soo beautifUl, and your roses are scented. They are hard to come by these days. Get more irises - I think they really are your favourite flower. seadog

J.G. said...

My little lemon tree does the same thing. We prune off most of them so it doesn't injure itself, and the lemons we leave on to ripen are juicy and quite mild. It's just starting to bloom again for the new season. Lemons off the tree are the best!

oreneta said...

I do need to get more irises, though I think it is a little early, hopefully more will flower later.

JG, that's a good idea with the pruning, though I confess myself greedy! Then again, there are more lemons than we can possibly use! I'll have a look. The tree itself may need some pruning too.

elPadawan said...

we're very far from having flowers pop up as well here. Instead, it's still snow and ice in here... But I'm not complaining. I wouldn't mind more snow for making snowmen, though :p

oreneta said...

Glad you love it! I've a group of friends going off snowshoeing this weekend. I am not joining them.