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Flowering out of season

suzie2251suzie2251 Posts: 8
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I've had my hellibores flowering this summer and last week my rhododendron started flowering!! Has this happened to anybody else?  
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Plants don't read the books. We make too many assumptions, plants flower when conditions are right


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • suzie2251suzie2251 Posts: 8
    As we've had an extremely hot summer, and these plants prefer cooler temperatures (hence they are spring flowering), I'm not sure about your logic!
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Yes to the hellebores, and I have had a very hot, but very wet summer! I thought it was strange too.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Plants flower when they flower is my logic. Hellebores frequently flower in Autumn, I believe there was a post re this a few days ago. Flowering is triggered by many things, cooler nights, rainfall after a drought, day length. Having said that, I have a Hellebore (and its descendents) that I bought in flower in Autumn and continues in that fashion.


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • suzie2251suzie2251 Posts: 8
    Thanks Nollie, I'm not alone then😁
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I have one flower on a "spring" flowering Viburnum, and on the dogwood. This time last year  I posted a picture of Apple blossom on the end of a branch that was carrying mature fruit. Plants just seem to do mad things sometimes.
    AB Still learning

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My winter flowering viburnum is flowering now 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    M Viburname Bodnantense was flowering on and off for most of the summer, following a very floriferous winter and spring ... can't see any blooms at the moment tho'

    My Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' did the same.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    My clematis Freckles curled up and went brown when left to the tender mercies of OH for 9 days.  Hoping it comes back.

    Meanwhile, my small hamamelis Jelena has been flowering for 5 weeks now and with much longer and more numerous petals than last winter.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • suzie2251suzie2251 Posts: 8
    Thank you for all your helpful comments.  First time it's ever happened to me in over thirty years of keen gardening😏.  I guess there's always  a new experience to be had when gardening.  We're always learning - long may it continue! 

    PS  I hope your 'Freckles' comes back Obelixx.  Mine has given a few flowers this summer.  
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