Nature Notes for January and February 2025

Plants in flower included 

• Giant Snowdrops​
• Snowdrops
• Crocus tommasinianus
• Crocus 'Dutch Yellow Mammoth'
• Crocus 'Fuscotinctus'
• Crocus 'Dorothy'
• Winter Aconite
• Winter jasmine
• ​Honesty​​
• ​Mahonia
• Winter-flowering honeysuckle
• ​Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
• ​Lungwort 'Blue Ensign' (Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign')

• Daffodil
• Miniature daffodil​
• Primrose
• Polyanthus
• Stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus)
• Lenten rose(Helleborus orientalis)
• Cyclamen Pewter Group
• Spurge
• Sweet box
• Japanese quince
• Witch Hazel
• ​Speedwell ‘Georgia Blue’
• Perennial candytuft

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Wildlife sightings

• Mistle thrush
• Blackbird
  
• Robin
• Blue tit

Here are some photos taken in the Storey Gardens during January and February.  ​Click on an image to enlarge.