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Shrub flowering at the wrong time. Why?
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I have a shrub that usually flowers in spring/summer but for some reason has decided to flower in December. I think it is a hypericum. It was bought a couple of years ago and kept in a pot but was planted out last spring. Any ideas why it may have decided to flower now?
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Yes. The current weather patterns with warmer temperatures have confused many plants over the past several years.
I have one of the hardier osteospermum's coming into flower - just in time for storm Barbara to whip its head off.
It looks like a Hypericum. It is just confused by the weather, but it will not come to any harm.
plants don't read the books, they react to conditions, past and present.
It's always been the same.
we like things to be predictable but it doesn't work like that
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