Crazy Weather

Hi All. I always keep my non hardy fuchsia in the unheated garage over winter. Last year around Feb they were shooting already.Trouble was I had not fully pruned them down,it was no problem doing so when the time came as they grew back ok.
This year again, left shoots longer and 3rd week in December and some are shooting and even got buds on!! same with the Pelargoniums,they are budding!!

Outside I have buds on the Blackcurrent. The climbing rose is budding & flowering and this morning I noticed the patio rose has a bud and is about to flower,crazy crazy weather.

 

Just been outside and noticed one clematis which looks totally dead had shoots up to 4" (10cm) long on it!! The other smaller clematis also has buds breaking through.

 

Yep ..it's crazy! My daffodils are flowering and self seeded foxglove silver cub have buds on them. I've also got campanula flowering, the nasturtiums are still going and so is the erysimum bowles mauve!

 

Even up here in Scotland things are pretty abnormal. Despite a few days of cold and frosts about 3 weeks ago many of my deciduous shrubs still have their leaves. Hydrangeas still flowering and loads of my Clematis have new growth too. What I don't know is whether plants will suffer for not having a proper rest period?

 

We have Honesty,Aconite,Comfrey and Helebrous although to be fair our Heleborus Potters Wheel or Niger is often out in flower at this time of year but usually we don't see Aconites until after Christmas...

 

Sorry don't know how to get the photos to follow on in the same post..

 

Aconite and I have just noticed some snowdrops starting to appear.Sorry about the dead bits but haven't been well enough to get out onto the borders to tidy up plus I don't want to slip over and bang my head again...ouch

 

Celandines now flowering, it must be Spring! Hang on, there's Antirrhinums & Wild Cornflowers blooming, so it must be Summer. Oh dear, what blooming season is it?






I've also got loads of Fennel sprouting, shame it's the wrong time of year to catch some Mackerel to go with it.

 

Once you've uploaded one picture click the upload button again and so on

 

Is a bit mad isn't it. Still got plenty of things in bloom, hardy fuchsias, geraniums, osteospermums, campanulas etc though some looking a bit battered mostly from the winds than cold - winds have been wicked this year. Beech tree looks to be in bud too, very bizarre. Never seen the garden look so lush and full at this time of year.

GG

 

Thanks @Jiffy will give it a go but I think at one point it kept uploading the same photo and then I had problems trying to delete the extra ones.Every time I start to get the hang of things they do an upgrade and then I am back to square one again.I don't even know how to use Photo Bucket any more

 

The blossom is opening on my Cherry (Mirabelle/Myrobalan) Plums. Cor, I'm going to get a very early plum crop this year. I'll check my Apple Trees tomorrow.

 

Or two crops