is your garden in autumn or spring mode?

[slothtrot]

Our garden isn't normal for the time of year - our magnolia has just finished losing it's leaves and has well established buds for new leaves at the same time.

The mountain ash still has all of it's leaves and berries though the birds are eating those now. The willow is the same as the magnolia - leaves finished falling this weekend in all the wind and it's got loads of buds. It's all more green than orange.

Are you sure it's not that you're just paying more attention to it this year, since there's so little else to attract our attention?

We're about half way though a normal autumn. Some trees have dropped their leaves, others are in full autumn colours and others are just thinking about turning. Most already have big leaf buds ready to spurt into growth next spring, and the spring bulbs are showing their noses. Meanwhile many of the spring flowers are throwing a few autumn flowers (primroses, snow in summer, medlar) but they usually do that in a warm autumn.

My magnolia lost all its leaves this week just gone. Left with the usual fluffy buds on bare branches that is usual for the time of year.

My willow hasn't lost its leaves yet - it's always last though.

My garden is very autumnal, very nearly winter bare.

Are you sure it's not that you're just paying more attention to it this year, since there's so little else to attract our attention?

Quite possibly, I spend a lot of time in the garden in spring and summer but not usually as much in Autumn.

Very autumnal with two anomalies. I’ve some crocuses coming up in a patch of grass and a magnolia that’s got flower buds on, which I can’t even begin to get my head round, they look like they will open soon too.

Both my husband and I peer at it with this look on our faces

Spring like! It did it last year too. I have crocus, daffodils & even alliums shooting & 2 x peony are trying to too. My summer clematis is back in flower as well, along with my winter one.

My ndn garden is similar too.

I have a dicentra already in flower, and irises nearly a foot high. Meanwhile, cosmos, roses, clematis, even cornflowers etc are still going from the summer.

Mixed bag

My corkscrew hazel thinks it's spring - it has catkins and the leaf buds are swelling and showing green.

Mine is settling down for autumn. I’ve got a few roses flowering but that is normal until the frosty weather hits. I’ve also got some allium bulbs coming through but this is the first year I’ve put them in so no idea if this is normal or not.

The fruit trees have just about lost their leaves now. The windy weather will likely take them this week. I’ve got a baby magnolia tree which still has leaves but these came through late from when I received it so I’m wondering if it’s still desperately trying to make food and clinging to them.

I have a perennial in the garden flowering madly and a few rosebuds still, although they might come to nothing. It has been very mild. The runner beans were still producing until about a week ago.

My fatsia japonica is in full bloom at the moment. I’ve never seen it have so many ‘flowers’.

The Passion flower is still growing vigorously and is flowering every couple of days, not sure if that is normal though.

I'm glad somebody posted this! I only commented to DP yesterday, some of our plants are coming back into flower? Also our summer food crops (lettuce ect) are doing well, and I havent even covered them for winter yet (lazy)
Garden seems to be in spring mode?

Climate change is very real, im afraid, we are starting to see the impact in our own back gardens.

The clematis is in full flower too.