Plants do seem a bit confused again this year, no sign foxglove flowers yet like Monty's last autumn but my clematis freckles is about to burst its buds.
My white forcythis (Abeliophyllum distichum) is budding up but I suspect that its meant to be doing that before if drops its leaves for winter?
I have hyacinths starting into flower. They're in an enamel colander so must have been stressed, I thought, until today I discovered some leucojum shooting forth in an old window box and a primula japonica in flower, hiding under a big fat astilboides leaf.
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To misquote Eric Morecambe - We are getting all the seasons, just not necessarily in the correct order.
Plants do seem a bit confused again this year, no sign foxglove flowers yet like Monty's last autumn but my clematis freckles is about to burst its buds.
My white forcythis (Abeliophyllum distichum) is budding up but I suspect that its meant to be doing that before if drops its leaves for winter?
I thought the snowdrops had arrived but when I had a closer look it was Acis autumnalis
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have hyacinths starting into flower. They're in an enamel colander so must have been stressed, I thought, until today I discovered some leucojum shooting forth in an old window box and a primula japonica in flower, hiding under a big fat astilboides leaf.
I've got a native foxglove in bloom , right nect to Aster Little Carlow
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've got a Primula viallii starting to flower again.
I gave foxgloves in bloom to.
Oops ....that was meant to read as...have!
I've got an aster of unknown variety which literally started flowering yesterday. I'm sure it wasn't this late in the season last year.