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# Twelve Months of Scottish Flowers - January · Rampant Scotland

Flowers of Scotland

# Twelve Months of Scottish Flowers - January

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Photographs and captions restored from the original seasonal flower collection.

 ***Rampant Scotland Directory*** ***Twelve Months of Scottish Flowers*** ***January***

**Here are the flowers which have been used to illustrate the section of the weekly [Scottish Newsletter](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/letter.htm) which includes the photos of flowers and other plants taken during the month of January.**

[Archived photograph unavailable locally. View the original capture.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239im_/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/graphics/mahonia_bn5829a.jpg)

 **Mahonia in Suburban Glasgow. This is a understandably a popular plant as it produces such bright, yellow flower spikes at a time of year when there is lack of colourful blooms.**

[Archived photograph unavailable locally. View the original capture.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239im_/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/graphics/orchid395b.jpg)

 **Phalaenopsis or "Moth Orchids"
under the glass of the Winter Garden at Tollcross in Glasgow. **

[Archived photograph unavailable locally. View the original capture.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239im_/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/graphics/hamamelis5858a.jpg)

**The oddly shaped petals of the hamamelis or witch hazel bush. It was spotted growing in a garden in the suburbs of Glasgow. **

[Archived photograph unavailable locally. View the original capture.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239im_/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/graphics/sloe_edin129a.jpg)

 **The flowers of the sloe bush - also known as blackthorn or "prunus spinosa". The gardening books describe this as a plant which flowers in March. Certainly, this one was near the centre of Edinburgh - in Princes Street Gardens, sheltering under the castle rock. **

[Archived photograph unavailable locally. View the original capture.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239im_/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/graphics/poinsettia390a.jpg)

 **The foliage of a poinsettia plant inside the Winter Garden at Tollcross in Glasgow. Poinsettia are popular house plants in the lead-up to Christmas. **

[Archived photograph unavailable locally. View the original capture.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239im_/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/graphics/snow_eunonymous2481b.jpg)

 **This photograph of the multi-coloured leaves of a eunonymous bush was taken while the snow was still falling. **

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## Source

From Rampant Scotland, restored from the page as it stood on 3 August 2020. [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004239/http://www.rampantscotland.com:80/annual/annual_jan.htm).

Links to pages not yet restored here lead to the original page or elsewhere on the web; 1 of 2 links on this page are restored on this site.