Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day January 2019

On the fifteenth of each month our devoted host, Carol, at May Dreams Gardens gives bloggers all over the world the opportunity to share what's blooming in their gardens.  It's a great way to see what's happening in different climates and also becomes a handy garden journal.  After participating for several years, I can look back on bloom days from the same month each year and see if the feeling of things blooming earlier or later this year is just my imagination or not.  Anyway, click over to May Dreams Gardens to see blooms from all over the planet.

Here's most of what's blooming in my zone 8 Puget Sound region of Western Washington garden this January.

A hydrangea still holding on to some color. 

It's hellebore time!

Jasminum nudiflorum spits out blooms all fall and winter.

Not the most handsome rose at this time of year but a rose nonetheless. 

I thought this Mahonia was the same variety as the ones that have just finished blooming but it's just starting.  Great to have these in bloom as long as possible for the winter hummingbirds.

Okay, they're not flowers anymore but  Fatsia japonica  seed heads that look like flowers.

Garrya elliptica

Lonicera fragrantissima is another hummingbird favorite. 

Viburnum × bodnantense 'Dawn' 

I usually buy a few winter pansies to brighten the garden.  They do pump out a few blooms in the cold season but really take off in the summer.

This may not really count because it came home from our local everything store just a few days ago but it's bright and happy outside. 

Not pictured are Sarcococca and Kerria japonica which are also in bloom.  Earlier in the month, the first Camellia japonica popped open but it's gone now and no others are blooming yet.   What's blooming in your garden this month?