Crocus and camellia

A couple of frosts but mostly mild and very wet. Camellia flowering well but getting bedraggled from the rain. Crocuses popping out but I don't have a patch of them and they're too small to look impressive.

We have three camellias; one looks very yellowy and not very well; the other two are vibrant and green-leaved, but only this one of the three has any flowers.

Shy hellebore

Mid January and these helleborus orientalis have come out beautifully. But they are really low on the ground and all the beautiful bits are underneath, so you never really notice how they lovely they are unless you kneel down, lean over, and lift them up, as I did to photograph them.

First frost

First frost since last winter has come really late - third week of January; made everything beautiful. We have some perennial wallflowers already in blossom; the small camellia  (Adolphe Audusson) is just getting ready to flower, and the leaves of the evergreen ceolanthus (California Lilac) look fab with frost on.