I have a rhododendron that should flower in May but has been flowering since September. It is now producing new leaves, which I expect to be killed off by the frost (when we get some). I feel sad that I shall not be enjoying it in May - or do you think it will flower again then?
I went up the garden this morning and filled a big basket with lots of lovely berries and foliage for my Christmas wreath but I could have just as easily filled it with spring flowers - lots of primroses and primulas,pansies,wallflower,love-in-the-mist still blooming away. And ,for the first time I had winter heather in full bloom for my wreath. We are going to have our first frost tonight in Bristol so it will be a much different garden tomorrow. Perhaps I should have picked myself a bunch of rosebuds after all.
Still have hardy fuchsias in flower bless 'em and I'm in the Midlands! Also have some pelargoniums in pot that I forgot to take in and they're fine. (will take them in now while I remember)
I have a standard fuschia still in flower in Nottingham but it probably will not be after the frost forecast for tonight. I shall have to get busy and bury it for the Winter soon if I am not to lose it.
Where I am in the West Midlands, we have only had two slight frosts so far this year. So roses, fuschias, etc., are still blooming well. I am sure we will get cold weather soon, but for the moment it is wind and rain that is forecast.
Our plum tomato started flowering again in mid October and we picked 6 moderate sized, but quite green tomatoes last week (30 Nov) just before a frost killed the final plant. All our roses are still going flowering well, next to the more seasonal and deliciously fragrant sarccocca.
Today, Sunday 11th Dec, we saw wallflowers, lupins, delphiniums, penstemons and achilleas all flowering at Wimpole Hall gardens (National Trust, South Cambridgeshire) forming a colourful but unseasonal back drop for a brass band playing Christmas carols!
But for us, the strangest is the yellow border in nearby fields of rapeseed flowering, having self set after the summer harvest...
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daffodils sprouting and tulip bulbs about 5 inches high in our back garden
I have a rhododendron that should flower in May but has been flowering since September. It is now producing new leaves, which I expect to be killed off by the frost (when we get some). I feel sad that I shall not be enjoying it in May - or do you think it will flower again then?
I went up the garden this morning and filled a big basket with lots of lovely berries and foliage for my Christmas wreath but I could have just as easily filled it with spring flowers - lots of primroses and primulas,pansies,wallflower,love-in-the-mist still blooming away. And ,for the first time I had winter heather in full bloom for my wreath. We are going to have our first frost tonight in Bristol so it will be a much different garden tomorrow. Perhaps I should have picked myself a bunch of rosebuds after all.
I have a standard fuschia still in flower in Nottingham but it probably will not be after the frost forecast for tonight. I shall have to get busy and bury it for the Winter soon if I am not to lose it.
Where I am in the West Midlands, we have only had two slight frosts so far this year. So roses, fuschias, etc., are still blooming well. I am sure we will get cold weather soon, but for the moment it is wind and rain that is forecast.
Talk about a North/South divide! a frost killed everything off a month ago here.
Our plum tomato started flowering again in mid October and we picked 6 moderate sized, but quite green tomatoes last week (30 Nov) just before a frost killed the final plant. All our roses are still going flowering well, next to the more seasonal and deliciously fragrant sarccocca.
Today, Sunday 11th Dec, we saw wallflowers, lupins, delphiniums, penstemons and achilleas all flowering at Wimpole Hall gardens (National Trust, South Cambridgeshire) forming a colourful but unseasonal back drop for a brass band playing Christmas carols!
But for us, the strangest is the yellow border in nearby fields of rapeseed flowering, having self set after the summer harvest...
A few roses still in bloom at home in Dorset.... oh and fuchsias.... and we've had a couple of frosts....
A Lady Boothby fuchsia still in full flower. and next doors hanging basket has a geranium, struggling but still trying to flower.