In message , Robert
writes
sam wrote:
: It is 31 January and I have a camelia Donation
: which has started to flower.
: I have never known weather like this in over
: 50 years of gardening.
:
: www.23hq.com/Sam62/photo/1618218

Ours have been flowering well too but a few years ago some were flowering
from November and that wasn't the autumn one either. Never got it that early
again.


For other unseasonal flowers, I was on the local snowdrop walk this
afternoon, and apart from the usual winter flowers (Acacia dealbata,
Daphne bholua, Sarcococca, ...) there were also in flower a mophead
Hydrangea, a rose, and some Schizostylis. I saw a Lavatera 'Barnsley'
(mostly reverted) still in flower elsewhere on Monday.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley