What is flowering in your garden which shouldn’t be?

[RedwallMattimeo]

My garden is having a real second flush this year. All of the perennials and the roses which were looking pretty ropey (well, dead in some cases) have cheered up with the cooler, wetter water and are looking spectacular. Flowering alongside them is a rhododendron. I noticed the other day it was really budding up. Today it has burst into flower. Four or five different buds have opened and there are at least that many still to open. This is completely out of sync. It is particularly confusing as a few fronds from the neighbour’s wisteria are growing through it and that is also in bloom. I could easily take some photos and pretend it was April/May time.
The camellias alongside the rhododendron seem to be looking as I’d expect for this time of year. I don’t want them to get out of sync as, if they don’t flower when they’re supposed to, I’ll have nothing in flower in that section of then garden then.

We’ve got blackthorn blossom and sloes on the same plants 🤨

Went to a hotel on the south coast last weekend and they had a group of daffodils in flower! They were in a sunny, sheltered spot, against a wall. I wish I'd taken a photo!

Yes! I think my Dutch iris have started to come through.

I just said this on another post but my cosmos are now peaking. They were rubbish all summer. I’ve got some roses and I’ve suddenly got rudbekia popping up and suddenly flowering. I’ve also got Californian poppies and a ton of verbena borariensis in flower. The garden is pretty colourful for the end of October.

I have three strawberries ripe or almost ripe. I cut them all back a while ago and some of them have tried again!

My rosemary bush is covered in flowers - I've never had them this late!

My roses are still going strong, with lots of new buds, and my dahlias have FINALLY got going. I’m really hoping for a mild autumn after waiting so long for them!

No it will last through snow and frost it's really resilient it self seeds all over my allotment. Easy to hoe in the seedlings as a fertiliser if you don't want them though, they break down really quickly

I've got foxgloves flowering which is crazy. I grew them from seed this spring and they're supposed to be biennial so they must think it's next spring. That's the only thing out of season although everything is having a second flush and my garden looks better than it has all year. My first dahlia flower opened today too, they've done terribly and I thought I wasn't getting any flowers this year.

My Choiysa is having it's autumn flowering but as it's an old plant that's not unusual. They usually take a few years to have the second floweing

I've had primroses popping up for the last fortnight and a lovely large dahlia plant that only showed its first flower last week!

My cyclamen always flower twice a year in spring and autumn. A California Poppy has just appeared in my (now empty) veg bed.

Getting quite a few edible strawberries on my allotment.
Roses in the garden

I planted some garlic chives earlier this year, they didn't flower all summer which was fine but they're now looking magnificent next to my chrysanthemums. Roses have come alive again here as well, after flowering in spring then not at all all summer every rose in the garden has gone crazy. And my sweetpeas and beans are producing far more flowers than they did all summer. And finally the well established weigela in the front garden has produced a few flowers although that was heavily pruned last winter so may be understandably confused.

A couple of roses which have done nothing all year are now flowering and a Welsh poppy (which usually only flowers here in the spring) is in flower. One of the dahlias produced its first flower last week. The hot, dry summer has done strange things!

One rose bush that didn't do well in the spring and summer and I thought might have died due to the drought suddenly burst back into flower in September and is still going strong. Some other plants also started behaving as if it is just starting summer popping out flowers here and there. I chopped back some mint plants that I thought had either died or gone into an early hibernation and they have come up like new, better than before. All very strange. Glad to hear it's not just me.

Violets and kingcups.

My dahlia has flowered constantly since we planted it in July. I was impressed that it still has about seven flowers on it this late on. But when I went to check on it, I was amazed to see it has about four more heads in the process of blooming.

Inherited a pretty ropey Madagascan Jasmine with the house, it was in a conservatory that we've since dismantled so it is now outside, but on a sunny patio. Has decided it wants to live, sprouted tonnes, and now it's bursting into flower. This from a plant that is allegedly not hardy and should be kept indoors above 15 degrees. We haven't quite yet had frost, but come quite close. I think I'll have to try and get it into the greenhouse, not easy now it's sprouted.

Also picked a handful of strawberries the other day. And yes there are roses, and carnations!

I had a rose bloom in December last year, which was lovely. Just the one flower. I've got several plants in bloom at the moment but nothing unexpected before the first frost. Fuchsia, zinnia, cosmos, bacopa. Buds on the roses

I have daffodils in flower alongside lupins - it’s a topsy turvy year

We have an area covered in Carpet Bugle and it had started to die down but has now gone crazy and spread out even more and is blooming again!

It started off as a two inch 🌱 given to us by a neighbour and it looked pitiful for a year and then the second year it started growing like mad and the flowers are beautiful.

Not my photo but the same as ours -

Our ever bearing strawberries have been fruiting. Properly as in large red edible strawberries.

Our peppers are still out ripening red also

My cosmos look incredible at the moment. Roses, verbena all look lovely.

But I've just mowed the lawn and noticed the cherry trees are coming back into blossom!!

Also picked a handful of strawberries the other day. And yes there are roses, and carnations!

I've got carnations as well!