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To think the seasons are shifting...

34 replies

FBEH · 21/12/2018 21:00

It’s december and I have flowers growing in my garden. Blue ones. I don’t know what they are called but they don’t come out in winter.

Last year and year before I think it got properly cold March time (although to be fair my memory is abysmal).

So who else thinks the seasons are shifting and getting later or have I lost the plot?

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DorothyParker111 · 21/12/2018 21:03

I've had snowdrops out in my garden for a couple of weeks. Today I noticed a friend still had daisies flowering in her lawn. Seasons seem to be disappearing completely!

Sittinginthestaffroom · 21/12/2018 21:05

I’ve been saying this for years. Winter didn’t end until April this year. October half term is good enough weather for a beach break in the UK these days.

userschmoozer · 21/12/2018 21:08

Yanbu, my lawn needs mowing Confused

Ivegotthree · 21/12/2018 21:08

Agree. It does feel like it.

HearMeSnore · 21/12/2018 21:14

You're right. Winter starts later, Summer starts earlier, Autumn goes on forever and Spring has disappeared completely.

I've got roses in bloom in the garden and my spring bulbs are coming up already. When winter finally arrives that'll be the end of them I expect.

WiltedDaffs · 21/12/2018 21:14

I've spotted a few trees near me that have blossom.

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FBEH · 21/12/2018 21:18

Yes I’ve spotted Daisy’s on the lawn and a cherry tree in blossom too. But it was the blue flowers that totally threw me as they come out in summer. Bees love them 😂

So not just me then!

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sharke · 21/12/2018 21:22

It's not just you!

I'm so glad there are other weirdos who think this Grin

It's not been PROPER cold this winter yet. In my mind, I should be constantly freezing my tits off in November / December.

I remember DC having a play date last March and they were bouncing on the snow-covered trampoline.

SoupDragon · 21/12/2018 21:25

It's not been PROPER cold this winter yet.

Isn't it only the first day of winter today?

formerbabe · 21/12/2018 21:26

I agree spring has disappeared! It goes from winter to summer in about April/may.

October this year was lovely weather. In the half term I took my children to the park... there were children in shorts and t shirts and eating ice cream. Seemed really odd.

BubonicBudgie · 21/12/2018 21:28

I've got 2 sunflowers smiling in my garden Shock

DeezMutts · 21/12/2018 21:28

Well we had heavy snow last December so it must have been pretty cold then?

formerbabe · 21/12/2018 21:28

March is really odd. My dcs birthday is in march. Sometimes the weather is like summer, sometimes it's snowing.

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FBEH · 21/12/2018 21:28

What???! Oh please do a photo lol. It’s mad!!

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dementedma · 21/12/2018 21:30

tree across the road is covered in blossom - and we're in Central Scotland!

whatswithtodaytoday · 21/12/2018 21:33

I definitely think seasons have shifted, but they've always been a bit wonky. I remember it being 16 degrees on my friend's birthday in mid-February 20 years ago (we sat in the park drinking). And my birthday in late November is always, always 9 degrees and cloudy or rainy, not really cold.

DomesticAnarchist · 21/12/2018 21:35

Winter flowering cherries are a variety. Ours used to start in November.

Our weather is dependent upon the jet stream. The jet stream is influenced by atmospheric... er.. stuff that might be (where's OYBBK when you need her?) influenced by global warming.

In them last couple of years our weathers been mucked around by El Niño type stuff, I think...

I think I'm getting at the idea that this variability of weather on our little island kind of normal. We get a run of one type of pattern for a few years because the vortices (I'm out of my depth again) created in the currents resonate around for a long time.

Our wildlife will take advantage of whatever conditions are there.

Here, it's just grim and wet. I saw a winter cherry, but no daisies or snowdrops or anything. Just damp everywhere!

LadyPasserine · 21/12/2018 21:39

20 years ago next April, it was over 80 degrees in South East England and the tarmac melted.

BubonicBudgie · 21/12/2018 21:42

Now I want a winter cherry tree

MardyArabella · 21/12/2018 21:45

It’s been proper cold here (in the north west of England), a couple of days at barely above freezing. Definitely no signs of flowers.

ohwellinthatcasetryprunes · 21/12/2018 21:46

My rosemary is in flower, one of the rose bushes has buds on it, the corkscrew hazel has catkins and yesterday I notice a strawberry plant with a flower open.

Weird.

DGRossetti · 21/12/2018 21:52

Isn't it only the first day of winter today?

Midwinter. We're half way through it ...

Worth reflecting we're really coming out of the "little ice age" which was responsible for Victorian snowy Christmases. Back in Roman times, grapes were grown in Yorkshire.

TheGreenDot · 21/12/2018 21:53

Oh I’ve been thinking this for years but thought I was over thinking things.

userofthiswebsite · 21/12/2018 21:56

If I'm not wrong, today is the shortest day of the year. From now on, slowly slowly slowly the days will get longer.
Thank god!

Brigante9 · 21/12/2018 21:56

This photo was taken on 10th December last year. Proper winter?

To think the seasons are shifting...