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.

My cherry blossom tree has exploded with pale pink flowers - guess it's been quite mild weather up till now

Honeyberries and strawberries seem to think it’s spring.

Flowering at the moment - roses, winter jasmine, nerines, courgettes, early pink crocuses.

My spring bulbs are all sticking their heads out already....

The apple tree I planted last year is confused

Strawberries and quite a lot of them are ripening now

Strawberries and they are fruiting with quite a lot of them now ripening

Thought it was only me...

Lots of roses a I have apple blossom on my bramley.

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Cosmos, geraniums and agapanthus. Have been having an Autumn tidy up and cut back and felt a bit mean cutting then back when still a bit more life in them. Been a great year thanks to the warm Summer.

My cosmos is only just flowering, roses are having a second go, the dahlias are still going strong and I had one lovely little ripe strawberry last week.

lupin is blooming!

Oldraver, omg that must have been really painful 🤣. We're in the SE corner,10 minutes away from the sea,roses pretty much flower all year..we had a few flowers on an azalea a few weeks ago, and a pale mauve rhododendron is now in full flower. The Choysia often flowers in winter.

My cyclamen are looking fabulous, and we're getting a second lot of poppies springing up. My canna is still going well, the foliage was definitely starting to die off this time last year but no sign yet.

Not flowering, but I cleared the edge of the lawn yesterday and found some of the daffodil bulbs are poking up already.

Tulip bulbs are poking through! Also roses are flowering

I have new shoots on crocosmia, which I wouldn’t have expected until spring.

Is this because plants are coming out of a period of dormancy that they went into because of the exceptionally dry summer? And they dont know the difference between dormancy because of drought and dormancy because of cold?

My Salvia Hot Lips and Amethyst Lips are living their best lives at the moment. The purple Aster generally flowers late but is also taking over that corner of the garden.

Viola , self seeded after spring / summer.
a random dahlia has appeared
the geraniums still look good

I had loads last year , in summer, but the one I planted on the opposite side did not flower …..until now.
Maybe it’s the position not the snails.

Roses, marigold, still some petunias, borage, cosmos, nasturtiums and GLADIOLI!

I noticed yesterday that a couple of my Primula auricula plants have flowers.

I have peas, golden raspberry and strawberries. I have unripe fruit on the strawberries too.
There were flower buds when I pulled the tomatoes out last weekend.
One of my dahlia has has been flowering for months.

Not exactly flowering, but DH presented me with a small but perfectly formed strawberry earlier.

Echinops, hellebore, honeywort and roses - in Scotland 🤨