Conkers growing already

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Surely it's a bit early isn't it?

I thought this the other day too! Mentioned it to my dh who I was walking with and he seemed to think it was normal. Hopefully someone can come and enlighten us! 😀

Well they flowered months ago and take time to grow bigger and ripen so.....

Totally normal for the time of year. It won't be long before the leaves on horse chestnut leaves start to turn brown either - they are pretty much the first to get autumn colour.

Blackberries are fruiting. So are crab apples. The rowan tree at work is in full berry.

I saw some heather (wild) in June.

I agree. It's too early. What does Mother Nature know? Are we in for a bad winter?

I have a plant that flowers in October, so far I’ve had two flowers appear this last week.

Lots of half grown horse chestnuts have already fallen, or been knocked, down here. I was thinking it was early on seeing them yesterday.

Here there's brown, crispy leaves all over the ground, it's just like autumn! Northern UK

Not unusual at all - most fruiting and nut bearing trees start producing their fruits immediately after the flowers have been polllinated, they then grow larger and larger until ripe. My apples, pears, hazelnuts and walnut are all covered in young fruits. I would expect them to be at this stage of the year. However, many fruit/nut bearing trees produce far more fruit than neccessary and, to avoid branches being damaged or broken by too much weight they will shed a proportion of their crop, in a phenomenon known as 'June drop' in order to protect themselves from damage.

A good fruit/berry year indicates that when the plants flowered, there was little or no frost to damage the blossom, as was the case this year, and pollinators were able to do their vital work. It is not an indicator of a hard winter to come....

Entirely normal. They have to grow before they fall off. Some of them will start falling now but will be premature undeveloped ones.

Noticed the conker tree near me,the leaves are starting to turn brown. Blackberries are slowly appearing too. Seems very early.

brambles laden with unripe blackberries too. world's gone mad!

We had a very mild and damp winter, and then all year has been mild, no real extremes of anything. Perfect growing weather for a lot of British plants, so it makes sense to me.

I'm seeing lots of blackberries too - shouldn't they still be green?

I've picked them in July for at least the last 16 years....

I love the fact that the related stories under this thread are almost all pregnancy scan-related 😂.

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Never mind the conkers - my poor figs are still like bullets thanks to this autumnal weather, they don't even know its summer.