(re-post)
The front wall of the house is starred by hundreds and hundreds of yellow winter jasmine flowers. They started to bloom in October this year and should continue until February. One English violet. Many calendula and snapdragon and alyssum – like 'second winds' on previous plants, or so it seems. One carnation, the latest bloomer in a pot that crimson'ed the summer, and ditto for a pink hollyhock; a number of rose buds that are not likely to open. Blue rosemary flowers amongst the green leaves. Some sort of blue flowering rockery plant, brand new to the season. Leycesteria (pheasant berry), second blooming this year. Same for the potato vine (solanum). Several dandelions in bud and I expect they WILL open given half a lick of sun! Some stocks are in flower and a cerenthe. The wallflowers are just beginning to open. There's a yellow 'weed' in flower, don't know the name, and a dark pink rockery sprawler whose name I forget. The buds on the Spanish broom surprised me and I had to go close up to make sure I was really seeing those yellowish buds for a second time this year. And the dainty white flowers of the honeysuckle left me breathless until I lifted them to my face and inhaled their fragrance.