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Strange season

MrMowMrMow Posts: 160
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Any one found this a strange season for plants to re flower

we have a Rhododendron  coming out, a plant in the front in a tub usually spring flowering that is in bloom & a red Robin according to the good lady is  strange turning red again. 


I never knew retirement would be so busy. :smile:




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  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    I have a Viburnum kilimanjaro that is reflowering at the moment, and a single bud on a mock orange.
    I also have a hosta that is still flowering.

    Very odd, never happened before.
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
  • MrMowMrMow Posts: 160
    I have spent most of my life walking the turf from dawn to dusk, but monitored changes in nature and that the seasons are changing drastically. 

    When  i retired I have got a lot more into plants and still enjoying the great outdoors, I have never been into the spray it with chemicals as I always believed that nature would have the cure. 

    But I do now find that the seasons are all changing and plants are doing strange things. Go out for a walk and notice plants that are in full bloom or plants that are spring flowering are having a second flower. 


    I never knew retirement would be so busy. :smile:




  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My Hellebores are in flower but that’s not unusual,  they’ll flower again in the Spring. 
    Rhododendron buds just popping open but only a few. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • MrMowMrMow Posts: 160
    But it’s October Lyn should they be?

    I always thought it’s a spring flower. 
    I never knew retirement would be so busy. :smile:




  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    There’s always been the odd flower out,  out of season.   If they were in full Spring bloom now,  I would think it strange.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • MrMowMrMow Posts: 160
    Thanks for the reply, must see if I can add some photos. 
    I never knew retirement would be so busy. :smile:




  • Forester_PeteForester_Pete Posts: 175
    I have a couple of Apple trees in flower at present which is rather odd. Fairly newly planted which I have managed to keep alive but they are clearly confused..
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I have an old apple tree with some flowers on it.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2023
    In a warm autumn you usually get the odd magnolia and apple blossom, it's not unusual. Last year I had a few fgmns coming out around now. And every year there is a thread here about about it. 

    My Corsican hellebores will start flowering soon. That is about right. Odder, I have had C. hederifolia flowering since July, which seems very AoT

    We have had one of the wettest Feb, the driest March, the wettest July and the warmest Septembers on record in the UK in 2023. October looks like it's going to be very warm set against the long term average (in England, at least). In London it's forecast to be 25C at the weekend and overnight 18C tonight, which is absurb for October in England.

    Some say London is going to end up with a climate more like Barcelona.






  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    We have quite a few plants which are sprouting new leaves and flower stems including the Veronica Spicata .  Also, all our grape hyacinths bulbs are in leaf....they must think it's Spring. We have had a flush of Cowslips again too. I'm just waiting for the daffodil bulbs to start popping up and then it really will be mad.
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