What's blooming now?

[GoDawgs]

The first Camellia sasanquas are blooming! Loaded with buds, too.

'Leslie Ann' shrub and blossom:






'Stephanie Golden' shrub and blossom:






'Apple Blossom shrub and blossom:

[SpookyShoe]

Nice Camellias, Dawg.

5 weeks ago I bought 3 amaryllis bulbs from Wal-Mart (the kind that some stores have to plant for Christmas blooms). The bulbs were labeled Minerva, a red with white stripes emanating from the center. One of the bulbs bloomed yesterday and it's a pale green with a narrow red lining around the petals. Never saw one like this before.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[GoDawgs]

Pretty! But sure not what you expected, That's the chance we take on bulbs. Having worked in a nursery I know how labels sometimes get mixed up. The only way to avoid getting something other than what you want is to see it in bloom. That works with shrubs but not with bulbs. Were the other two true to type?

[SpookyShoe]

One of the two remaining has bloomed, and it's also a very pale green, with a very thin band of red around the petals. The third one hasn't bloomed yet, but the buds look reddish. I'll wait and see.

Donna

[GrowingCoastal]

Lovely, whether the expected one or not. We get these as bulb in a box for sale around Christmas time, now that is.
Never seen one like yours.

[SpookyShoe]

These look better now than they did in the summer. I also have some with yellow flowers, but they aren't blooming now.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[MissS]

It is so nice to see that some people still have some plants flowering. It has brightened up this cold day.
Donna the amaryllis bloom that you are showing is "Picotee". A very dainty white and green blossom with red edging. I happen to love this little charmer. The big box stores are notorious for selling mislabeled bulbs. They are also known to sell bulbs with mosaic virus so be on the lookout for that as well.

[SpookyShoe]

Yeah, I looked up Picotee and that does seem to be what two of my three Wal-Mart bulbs are. The second Picotee has better definition in the red edging than the above pictured
plant stalk. This is my one year old pointsettia, getting it's red leaves right on time.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[SpookyShoe]

The pansies will bloom all winter and do not freeze. The rose is in a pot...the buds are peach, but the blooms are nearly white. The amaryllis is from a bulb I bought at Wal-Mart about 7 weeks ago.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

Very nice! Love amaryllis!

[SpookyShoe]

Christmas Cactus.

Very nice!

[SpookyShoe]

This is really early, but my neighbor's peach tree has blossoms and even a few leaves (branches hang over the fence into my yard, lucky me). And my daffodils are sending up bloom shoots already. Things are acting like it's Spring.

Wow! My daffs are coming up but no sign of blossom on the fruit trees. We haven’t had nearly enough chill hours yet. Sure is pretty!

[SpookyShoe]

Schlumbergera.