Late January blooming bulbs

Just one blooming January bulb ... just made  it!  My super market Mini Iris pots I always pop into the garden   . They must be blooming  early , I haven't even seem them in the super market yet .

 Crocus chryanthus 'cream beauty' are  always the first to bloom in February .

I had to get out and clear up a area or I'll never see any bulbs this year .  Sometimes I run  the mulch mover over the lot. This really needs some going over , as in grabbing and just tugging out as much as I can get of those pesky self seeders.
This will take quite a few sessions ....

A few things in January

I spent very little time in the January garden , I just can not make myself go out in the  wet , gray and cold . It's all very mucky and squelchy anyway .                                                                                                                                                                      

 I have noticed  several broken pots . Even my Bonzai pot took a hit !

Maybe the figs trees  need to go into some of the stock tanks, but then I'd have the problem of somehow getting the bamboo out.

 I found a lovely fat Rose hip while poking around.

I did have a good clearing around the big Sacchararum Ravenna grass . Out came the the old Lavender , everything else got cut back.  I'm  thinking  of leaving  it more open this year . I say that ...then  all the self-seeders start  popping up.. 

This was planted last summer,  it's only tiny , I think it's Leucothoe fontanesiana .

One of my favorites....Chamaecyparis thyolde 'Heatherbun''

Euphorbia 'Blackbird ' 

Lots of early buds on the Honeysuckle this year .
Now for a nice stretch of dry sunny days for a good February tidy up...

Jelena and Diane

Hamamelis 'Jelena' and 'Diane' seem to be the first to bloom in January . I missed  them  for a few days , because it was so rainy out .
The sun is out these last few days , and I've had a chance to clear some of the worst of the  mucky stuff up ...that means you Japanese Anemone !