Seasons are out of whack

While walking today, I noticed the blackberry is coming into flower again.



In addition to primulars in flower, delphs flowering again, and iris leaves showing.

 

Yes it is so weird. Previously we have had Indian Summers and some plants have been fooled - but nothing quite like this year. I have got lots of roses out and more in bud. Narcissus in flower and also primroses, auriculas and polyanthus. Hazel nuts and catkins are both on the trees together in the forest. Lawn still needs mowing every week and no leaves are showing any signs of turning orange. February's mahonia is in bud and the daffs ae pushing through. Flowering cherries in bud too. When the frosts do come - there will be wholesale slaughter!

 

It has been odd. I had Wisteria flower for a second time in August. Just yesterday Polemonium (Jacobs Ladder) and Astrantia Hadspen Blood (Masterwort) broke into flower again.

 

A week ago when we left to come down here (Portugal) I saw that our raspberry had new buds too. Also our Deutzia had a few blossoms.

 

My stupid Iris germanica are in bud.

 

I bought some Irises a in early September from Hilliers and two weeks ago one came into flower.

Strange seasons.............

 

Add meconopsis Cambrica, and ceanothus to the list of those flowering out of season,

 

my honeysuckle is starting to flower again, and there are new leaf buds on some of my trees :s

 

As i said a few days ago one of our sycamore has new leaves on

 

Lilacs here have enormous buds!!

 

My early variety strawberries are flowering!!!! Yet to be honest, other than being drier than usual, I can't say I've noticed the weather being too different than usual :confused:

 

What no winter !







Love Global Warming

 

Great pics BM!!!
Loving the abutilon

 

Long may they continue ! :D

 

My abutilon, that I rescued from a derelict house garden, is flowering much better now than it did all summer.
The summer bedding plants refuse to stop flowering and cardoon plant that I planted recently has now reached five feet across, with the most gigantic leaves.