Spring?

[bendog]

Some of the plants in my garden think it is Spring!!! My willow is growing catkins and the early buddleia is producing new flower spikes. Is this happening everywhere?

[honeybee]

That sounds a little worrying..
Havn't got any spring plants out but all my summer flowers are still going strong and flowering for the second time. The spring bulbs were all very slow this year because it was quite cold here early in the year.

[Tinkerbell]

Yes, there are certainly signs that plants are a bit topsy turvy here in N Yorks too. It'll be interesting to see how things progress in the Spring.

Tinkerbell

[colinaj]

Just second growth, not uncommon. I have even witnessed secondary flowers on Hawthorn.

[Dan Salter]

my borage all went over weeks ago....gone to seed brown and shrivelled...i nearly binned it to the heap but its all back and in full blue flower again ! not grown it before so not sure if this is normal?

[speckled wood]

Back in early December 1998 I took a walk along the old Thames & Severn Canal at Daneway in Gloucestershire and found lots of sallow catkins.

Same month I found several Red Campion plants in flower by the old Leominster Canal near Tenbury Wells

[DL]

The gardener tells me we have the same situation here with the Hazel.

On Saturday we had a flock of Pinkfoot Geese out the back.

Yesterday there was still parent House Martins feeding young in the nest on my local patch. There were also a number of Larks singing while soaring.

Today several flocks of Lapwings have passed flying south.

[Mr Mag00]

often find red campion flowering throughout the year down here in Dorset