On 05/09/2014 18:32, Sacha wrote:
On 2014-09-05 07:56:04 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:40:20 +0100, David Hill

wrote:

On 02/09/2014 19:15, Jeff Layman wrote:
A few days ago I had a look at the apples to see if they had ripened,
and found a single flower open on the tree. Rather unusual, but not
unique.

The Ceanothus arboreus has over a dozen flowers out. Most certainly
not
unusual, as Ceanothus often has a few flowers out in early autumn.

But I just had a look at the Hamamelis mollis I bought a couple of
months ago, and whose leaves are rapidly turning their yellow autumn
colour. I found it smothered in flowers! Why is it flowering now? There
hasn't been even a hint of cold weather. I guess there is a good
chance
that it isn't mollis, but virginiana, and the buyer is more confused
than the plant!



Not veg but my honeysuckle is flowering its head off, better than the
spring.

Our honeysuckle flowered well, but stopped flowering and lost all the
leaves at
the end of August and seems to think it is winter already. The same thing
happened last year.
Our nashi/asian pears were ripe long before we expected them to be ripe.

Ray ate one of our three Nashis last night. He wasn't overly impressed.
;-) And a species Camellia (spring flowering) has one solitary flower
on it.

I bought 3 Amaryllis/Hippeastrum bulbs last Xmas, they flowered in
Feb/march now one has flowered again and the second has been in flower
for the last 10 days.
I did nothing to them, just kept them in amongst the orchids.