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Plants flowering out of "season"

bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
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In the garden today noticed our Beschorneria yuccoides has 2 flower spikes about 2 feet long already. Way way too early. And then our daffodils are nearly over while for decades we never had them in flower before March 1st.
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 2 March
    The cherry tree over my garden has been in bloom. Cherry and forgetmenots in Feb? Craziness
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Wow! Neither with us at the moment. The buds are there for the cherry but no were near opening. Forget me nots? All leaf at the moment.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My fgmns have been blooming for a few weeks (London)
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    @Fire Some tulips are coming into bud when they aren't usually until April.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 2 March
    Yes, I have had a lot of tulips in bud since mid-Feb, but I think they will stay in that form for quite a while.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Just the December flowering strawberry and a wild yarrow, and the big dicentra flowering this week.
    The cherry is just coming into nice buds, and the bulbs seem to be the same - daffs are always early here, and the tulips are getting leafy.
    Everything else has been battered by rain, the grape hyacinths have gone a bit limp but they'll probably flower well because they're indestructible. 😄
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    My half-hardy osteospermums have their first flowers.  😁  A hardy geranium, Hexham White, sent up its new leaves in early Jan.  I was hoping to move it this yr and normally the first signs of life would not have been till March.  Might have missed the window for relocation now. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I would just move that when it suits you @ViewAhead, and when the weather is reasonably good for soing it. I've moved geraniums at all sorts of times, but it's fairly easy to do that here- I've moved conifers in summer because we don't need to worry about lots of watering. If you have adequate rainfall, you could move a geranium any time from now onwards  :)
    Nothing too extraordinary here in terms of growing earlier. The snowdrops were a few weeks early everywhere, and the dark alpina clematis I have will probably flower a week or so earlier.  The last few winters here have been very mild though, so some plants are a little further ahead, which means they can then be affected by frost/ice/snow in March and April, when they'd usually just be thinking of waking up .
    I hate not having proper winters even if it saves on the heating. We've had slightly higher rain in Feb simply because it was too mild for it to be falling as the more normal snow. Snow, frost and ice is so much better for everything - including me!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    Thanks, @Fairygirl.  Might risk it.  As you say, geraniums are fairly forgiving. 

    A nice cold snap reduces the slug population.  Could really do with that after successive mild, very wet winters.  🤨  Pesky wotsits! 
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    My strawberries have had flowers over winter - I removed most of them but will leave them from now on to get some early fruit - maybe !!  Nothing much else extraordinary but I wonder whether we should  perhaps abandon the term "seasonal" and just refer to the month - or even Wet/Dry/Too cold/Not cold enough, etc.  ;)
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