Anyway, to bring things up to date, I've since been able to add
Common Whitlow-grass (
Erophila verna),
Spurge-laurel (
Daphne laureola) and, finally, "genuine"
Golden Crocus (
C. chrysanthus) on a couple of visits to the Avon Gorge during the first few days of March; unfortunately I also lost one, though, when I had to admit I'd mis-identified some of the large population of
Lauristinus (
Viburnum tinus) as Shallon (Gaultheria shallon) last summer when they weren't flowering
The Gorge, only a couple of miles from Bristol City Centre, must be one of the best-established sites for
V. tinus in the UK; you see it quite often as a relic of former planting, but here it's thoroughly naturalised and spreading like wildfire
A return visit to Frenchay on March 2nd, as well as another look at the aconites & anemones, added a few new species;
Head-to-head Daffodil (
Narcissus x cyclazetta), established in Frenchay Churchyard, and a fine specimen of
Coastal Redwood (
Sequoia sempervirens) as part of the wooded area of the hospital's nature reserve - planted, presumably, but it'd been there a bloody long time
And, not forgetting one of my favourite spring plants;
Rue-leaved Saxifrage,
Saxifraga tridactylites, its' delicate little white blooms brightening up an abandoned flowerbed within the hospital complex itself. It's good to think that, hopefully, as the month of March progresses more and more species ought to be coming into flower