February Bloomday

After taking a 3 month break from Garden Blogger's Bloomday I'm happy to jump back in and share what's blooming (or just about to) in my garden now. We'll start indoors...

This Evergreen Cybister Amaryllis is rather lovely, and the first of the three different amaryllis bulbs I planted back in late November to bloom.
This white Amaryllis will be the next to open, while 'LaPaz' is still just budded up and thinking about it.
My NOID anthurium are blooming. Three plants stuffed into a long narrow planter and all three are blooming again. Only one in focus however.
Several tillandsia are throwing up bloom spikes, none of them have been under my care long enough for me to claim credit.


This Goudaea ospinae var. gruberi is the bloomingest bromeliad I have. 
One last indoor plant, my orchid on a stick; Dendrochilum smithianum (pulcherimum) is blooming again too.
Outdoors we go! Helleborus x ballardiae 'Cinnamon Snow'.
This one was an early spring purchase and is strategically located right by the back door.
Helleborus x hybridus 'Rio Carnival' is also by the back door, it went into a container last spring and I never managed to find a place in the ground for it. Any day now it will be bursting open.
Helleborus foetidus is also just a little shy of blooming this Bloomday.
This particular Helleborus 'Ice 'n Roses' was also a recent purchase, I have a few other dark 'Ice 'n Roses' in the ground just about to open...
Including this extra dark ’Ice n Roses Merlot’.
Which I really thought would be open in time.
Ditto for this H. x ballardiae Pink Frost.
Good ole Helleborus x hybridus 'Jade Tiger' is open though.
As are the first florets of Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Nanjing Gold'.
Photographing these blooms against a blue sky is a right of spring for me.
I am so glad Mother Nature cooperated.
It will be awhile however before I get to bombard you with the orange blooms of Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Akebono' in front of my orange garden wall. It's gonna happen though, so prepare yourselves.
Mahonia x media 'Charity'
They really are beautiful little flowers.
Rather decadent in their abundance.
Mahonia x media 'Marvel' is just a few days behind.
I saw a hummingbird testing them, soon little birdy!
Loquat blooms, Eriobotrya japonica are still going strong. I wonder, do multiple flowers open at the same time in warmer climates? I can see this would be a much more luxurious bloom if that were the case.
Almost Euphorbia rigida, almost.
A few more warmish days...
I feel like the foliage and flowers of Pachysandra axillaris 'Windcliff Fragrant' could be the poster child of my garden this month. "We look like hell but dammit we're still alive, we're blooming, and we smell good!"