Various plants flowering in the garden at the end of the year, in the depths of winter: Winter jasmine, Primroses and (pictured) a Camellia.
With this photograph I bid you a Happy New Year.
May you be healthy, safe and contented.

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Gloomy morning, the light has a pink-ish quality. The grasses and the bamboo are glowing as if they were on fire.

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Garlic planting day - all own seed - in a well mulched no-dig bed.

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Even on a grey and dull December's day, the garden looks beautiful. The grasses and dogwoods glow with autumnal or, rather, wintry colour and the seedheads provide texture.
We leave the old growth until next spring. It is so important for the wildlife. Birds and small mammals still find food from the seeds and berries. Insects overwinter in leaves and seedheads. The old growth also provides shelter for other small creatures over the winter.
Besides, if we cut down everything now, the garden would be bare, unsightly and boring for the next several months.
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One from a couple of weeks ago: The leaves of this wisteria have turned beautifully autumnal.
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Seedheads on the self-sown teasels by the pond.
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It may be a grey, damp, cold day but the colours in the garden are fantastic and a joy - probably a privilege - to experience.
Flowering Salvia involucrata ‘Hadspen’ before the autumnal leaves of a Cornus sericea ‘Flaviramea’ (yellow-stemmed dogwood).
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Made a grasses seedheads arrangement for indoors.
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