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Flowering in January? šŸ˜®

TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
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I keep meaning to askā€¦.

My scabious are still flowering. I planted them last April when I moved in and theyā€™ve flowered since last summer.Ā 

Is it because weā€™ve had quite a mild winter? When Iā€™ve grown them in pots in the past theyā€™ve always disappeared down to a few leaves and not much else by January.Ā 

I also took an Agapanthus out of the border and into a pot to protect it over winter and that has grown since September.Ā 

Is it just me getting it wrong or is this normal? šŸ¤”


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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @pitter-patter
  • D0rdogne_DamselD0rdogne_Damsel Posts: 4,184
    I still have marigolds flowering. šŸ˜± I think it's been a strange year. šŸ™‚
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  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    My scabious hasnā€™t stopped flowering either, @TheGreenMan. It has been quite a mild winter.Ā 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    D0rdogne_Damsel said:
    I still have marigolds flowering. šŸ˜± I think it's been a strange year. šŸ™‚
    Good heavens! I don't have anything flowering, apart from Snowdrops coming out. I'm in SW France, Dordogne and it's been -5Ā°, even less sometimes, nearly every morning in January. Lots of frosts. The car door lock was frozen a couple of times.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Marigolds still flowering here too.
    I'm amazed i also had a rose bud open into a beautiful bloom. The gale force winds this past weekend put paid to that though.
    Sunny Dundee
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Not uncommon in mild winters - some parts of the country will always experience that kind of thing. You Agapanthus will be fine - the deciduous ones are hardier than the evergreens too, so it'll depend which one you have.
    I don't really have anything flowering that wouldn't normally be in flower though. Nothing left over from summer/autumn. Snowdrops are a couple of weeks earlier though - just starting to flower now, and in other gardens nearby they've been properly in flower for a week or so. That's early.Ā Ā 
    Been ridiculously mild- and dry- for this area. We've had less than half of our average rainfall for January, even with the storms.Ā Still wetter than most areas though, as this is the wettest part of the UK.Ā 
    At least it means the heating isn't on so much!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    pitter-patter said:
    My scabious hasnā€™t stopped flowering either, @TheGreenMan. It has been quite a mild winter.Ā 

    I suppose February could bring some "proper winter" and finish them off.

    If they've continued to flower will they need feeding?Ā  Will they be knackered come spring/summer?
  • GearĆ³idGearĆ³id Posts: 198
    Yes, it's been an odd winter. It was an odd year!Ā 

    I have carnations and fuchsia in flower. It'll be interesting to observe all the oddities in the garden this year because of it.Ā 


  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    I donā€™t feed mine, unless I grow them in pots. I suppose I ought to give them a special treat now that theyā€™ve cheered me up on so many gloomy days.Ā 

    The fact is, apart from roses and plants in pots, I donā€™t feed anything else.
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    It was a cold winter here last year and we had one knautia in flower for the whole winter and spring. It started floweringin may 2020 and only just stopped this Christmas.Ā 

    There are annual rudbeckia in flower around the corner from me and I saw wild snowdrops flowering in the first week of December.Ā Ā 
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