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My snowdrops are flowering already.

elsien
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edited 3 January 2012 at 10:12PM in Gardening
Here's hoping that a seasonal cold spell doesn't stop them in their tracks. I'm in the midlands, just wondered if anyone else's flowers or bulbs were doing things they shouldn't at this time of year?

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  • Pont
    Pont Posts: 1,459 Forumite
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    Yep - went out into my back garden this afternoon (to hang some washing out to dry - at the end of December!!!!) and noticed my roses had lots of new, green growth).
  • oldtractor
    oldtractor Posts: 2,262 Forumite
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    WOW! its so miild,everything is mixed up. Quite different to last year.
  • meer53
    meer53 Posts: 10,217 Forumite
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    My snowdrops are coming up too !
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
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    My first snowdrop opened yesterday and I noticed the bluebells just showing green shoots.. last year I missed my snowdrops they were covered in , yep SNOW!!
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  • I'm in the NE and mine are just pushing up now.
    Debt - CCV £3792
    CCB £1383 (took a hit for a holiday)

    Loan 1 £1787
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    Total £8601 Was £39302
  • no snowdrops opening here in the part of Scotland i live in , but plants are popping up and trees are budding ( leaves ) but today we are being beaten with severe gales reaching 85mph + over 90mph in more exposed areas. several large trees down , branches flying by , no real sign of cold weather as such but this storm is the front of a colder system and temps to start dropping into new year. absolutely pathetic winter this year.
    Oh yeah forgot we have daffodils sticking out the ground by a good few inches and have done since November lol.
  • A._Badger
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    elsien wrote: »
    Here's hoping that a seasonal cold spell doesn't stop them in their tracks. I'm in the midlands, just wondered if anyone else's flowers or bulbs were doing things they shouldn't at this time of year?

    Mine have been out for a couple of weeks (Kent) but even stranger is that a sheltered patch of narcissi, nestling by the side of a farm building a few hundred yards away, are not only out - they are nearly finished!
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    In flower in my garden in Yorkshire on Christmas day: bedding geraniums, fuschia, alstromeria, alchemilla and osteospernum. Weird weather.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • my geraniums are still flowering in my baskets, im in the midlands too btw x
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  • rustyboy21
    rustyboy21 Posts: 2,565 Forumite
    Can anyone beat a Hydrangea bush in Bloom in Lancashire? Didn't bloom in Summer though.
    Bluebells are up and Foxgloves growing , but didn't in summer.

    Am I a Freak? Don't know much about gardening
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