Daffodils out!

Our snowdrops are nearly out!

loopyloo

Our snowdrops are nearly out!

We saw a few clumps of those, too. I love snowdrops!

I was walking down the road yesterday and I was surprised to see quite a big clump of yellow daffodils growing in somebody's front garden. Also, my various bulbs in pots seem to be shooting up rather fast for this time of year.

At the moment I have a bottle brush shrub flowering 2 marigolds and a pot of lobelia out in flower
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Yes some of my daffodils are budding. Lots of big buds on the camellias and on the rhododendrons too.

My daffodils aren’t quite in bud, but another mild sunny day and they may well be. The earliest I’ve had one in full flower here was 28 December (2015).

I have seen some Facebook pictures of them flowering in Torquay, none near me yet.

I walked past my neighbour’s house today and their white camellia is in full bloom.

Yes we noticed yesterday that a clump of daffodils is already out in the front garden. Just hope they are not going to get clobbered if we get the snow they are promising next week.

I have Primroses flowering in the garden!

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It’s weird what flowers are out

Those are mine.
Everything’s seems completely out of synch this year.

There are several varieties of daffodil which are January flowering daffodils.
I planted them in my garden years ago and also gave January flowering bulbs to two friends. It's not unusual for these bulbs to flower late December. I've also had snowdrops flowering on Christmas day years ago.

Visited NT Hughenden Manor last weekend and a whole bank of daffodils in bloom.

My white quince hedge is in full bloom .
I'd bought three dying specimens and didn't think that they'd survive ,but they've made a wonderful screen .

grandMattie

Those are mine.
Everything’s seems completely out of synch this year.

Gorgeous , but you worry when things are 'Too Early' don't you ? !

BlueBelle

It’s weird what flowers are out

That's pretty.

That sounds wonderful Esmay! I planted a quince a few years ago with dreams of jelly but unfortunately it seems to be a low growing spreading variety.
As for unseasonal flowerings; hollyhocks were in flower against a sunny wall until a frost last week. I live 600ft up in the Scottish Borders.

Snowdrops in my garden have been out for a few weeks. A lovely reminder that spring is on the way.

A neighbour's forsythia is in full bloom

When we moved over 20 years ago, there was nothing in the garden so I put in some daffs and was amazed when they came out before Christmas. I felt it was all wrong. They must be a particular early-flowering variant. But over the years I've come to like seeing their cheerful faces in the winter gloom.

With a bit of planning you could have daffs in bloom from December through to May.

Grammaretto

That sounds wonderful Esmay! I planted a quince a few years ago with dreams of jelly but unfortunately it seems to be a low growing spreading variety.
As for unseasonal flowerings; hollyhocks were in flower against a sunny wall until a frost last week. I live 600ft up in the Scottish Borders.

We have a quince tree that didn’t fruit last year but fruited this year. Sadly some of the fruit was brown inside - which is common with quince I believe - and the rest were so tough to peel and prepare my poor hands which suffer from arthritis were in agony. I managed several bars of jam but will stick to easier fruits next time.

*jars of jam