Warm winter making fruit trees bloom

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2023

  We’re not having a warm winter and very few sunny days here … whereabouts are you?

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

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2023 edited February 2023

  🤔 you asked the same question this time last year. I asked where you were and you didn’t reply …
  
  https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1061925/fruit-trees-flowering-too-early#latest
  

  
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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  February 2023

  Can't be in England or France, has been cold in both.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• zugenie Posts: 831

  February 2023

  Definitely hasn’t been a warm winter here 🥶

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  February 2023

  Interesting - the perception of a cold winter. Apart from a couple of prolonged cold snaps, I consider this to have been a very mild winter here. 
  
  However, unless @sim504 responds to the comments, especially re location, no one can help. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2023 edited February 2023

  Its not been overly cold here, except for the two cold snaps, but I’d not describe it as a mild winter here.  We’ve had a lot more frosts than in recent years. Certainly nothing’s starting into early growth. 

  
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• sim504 Posts: 4

  February 2023 edited February 2023

  Sorry, Birmingham! 
  
  Must be a weird trend I'm experiencing with fruit trees. The bloody things keep blooming too early. 
  
  
  The UK has been seeing warmer winters as the Met office explains. It may not feel like it when we had that week of freezing temperatures 
  
  https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/interesting/2022/2022_04_december_low_temperatures_v1.pdf
  
  Also January has been the second  sunniest on record.
  
  https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/summaries/index#:~:text=January 2023&text=This was also a particularly,above the 1991-2020 average.
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  February 2023

  I wonder if the drought and heat of last summer had any effect. i don't grown fruit trees but many of my trees and shrubs look dead or dying in August/ early September then put on new growth in autumn when they would normally have been fading away

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2023 edited February 2023

  What sort of site are they planted in?
  Last year you said that your fig was breaking into leaf in February ... my fig is one of the last things in my garden to leaf up.  

  
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• Slow-worm Posts: 1,630

  February 2023 edited February 2023

  My big cherry tree was budding in autumn - maybe something to do with the summer drought, who knows? It's in full flow now bud-wise.
  I'm in the SW, and it was really mild until December, and we've just had a consistent 9⁰ without rain for a couple of weeks. 
  The water butt has been empty for a fortnight!

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