December Garden Flowers

[elleme]

My forsythia and winter jasmine started to flower early, a few weeks ago, though on the forsythia it's only a couple of flowers. Salvia leucantha has been in flower for weeks - that's a late-flowering plant anyway so that's quite normal. My calendula and red valerian both have a couple of flowers still hanging on. I went for a walk today in a nearby garden and noticed what was probably a couple of flowering cherries blooming slightly. And in the local park last week I noticed Lonicera fragrantissima has started blooming - that's early, isn't it?

[jennyb]

What's going on? This photo was taken in my garden today - 10th December - daffodils and autumn leaves! We still have not swept up all the autumn leaves yet.



Jenny

[mrs fish]

They are in a muddle

[Jez]

I spotted Primroses and Viola ogra out in flower, also Upright Hedge Parsley just about to flower also and theres new growth on my wooded Cranesbills

[elleme]

Today I noticed an antirrhinum left over from summer has put out a single new flower. We've just started having some frost about the last week or so.

[Cotham Marble]

I have a chaenomeles 'japonica', not sure of the actual cultivar; it's not unusual for a few flowers to show in December in advance of the main February/March flush. What I have never seen before is fruit being set in December.

CM

[dianamay]

I have the following flowering in the garden:

Honeysuckle
Bergenia (these have been in flower since middle of November)
A daffodil
Polyanthus
Winter jasmine
A hyacinth (just about to flower)
Abutilon (one orange and one red).
Even the frost doesn't seem to have stopped this flowering.
Two roses
Fuchsia flowers are still showing
Several patches of campanulas

[mrs fish]

That is a nice lot of flowers

Are you in a town south of the uk?

[dianamay]

Hello Mrs Fish,

I am in Southampton so perhaps I am lucky. We have had several hard frosts over the last few days so I don't know how long things are going to stay the same, its quite interesting really.