Four Seasons in One Day

Mid November and all four seasons at the same time!

Autumn berries and spring bulbs


Narcissus that should bloom in March


Primrose that we normally see in February and March


Berberis that blooms in April and May


Summer's snapdragon


and marigold


The last roses of summer with autumn leaves


Christmas comes early with mistletoe berries


Can you find all the seasons on one day?

 

AMAZING!

I drove over the moors this morning and saw a floribunda rose hedge with masses of flowers on it. I have also heard that peoples rasberries are starting to fruit again.

Surely this can't all be down to global warming, there have been other freque years, this is probably just another.

 

All of it is fantastic. Love the creeper on your house .. it's colouring nicely now!

I almost bought a raspberry plant at the market on Monday but was dubious about our heat here although the woman said they love the heat. Any thoughts?

 

Brilliant. What a kaleidoscope! Those won't fail to to bring cheer to any time of year.

 

My narcissus bloomed in October last year as well so I am not sure that this is just a freak year. Winters have been getting much milder for some time now surely. Those of us of a certain age can remember the winters of our childhood in the 40s and 50s. School milk frozen in milk bottles, frozen toes and aching fingers, clouds of steamy breath, ground hard as iron and so painful when you fell over, Jack Frost ice patterns on the INSIDE of our bedroom windows.
Snow in 1962-63 fell in November and melted in March. "Times they are a-changin'"

 

I trudged to my last winter in school that year ... that does bring back memories!

 

Roses in my garden often have flowers in December - but like you I have primulars in bloom, veronica in bloom, erica in bloom - so just two seasons, autumn and spring.

 

Hey hornbeam, I'm just back from 2 weeks in Tenerife, and my plants are still blooming... primroses, tom thumbs and my gazanias are still in bud... global warming or what? I brought back some seeds & cuttings from there, must ask LOL

 

oops sorry Hornbeam. don't know wot I did wrong there.... must ask Lady of Leisure if my seeds'll do over here. couldn't believe all the stuff still blooming in my garden considering the weather it's been.

 

hey Lady of Leisure, I've jus come back from 2 weeks in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, and brought back some cuttings & packets of seeds. Will they manage to live here, if I plant them in my greenhouse? I've got hibiscus, bouganvilleau, (how on earth dyu pronounce that?) bird of paradise (strallizia) and a few others. when I come back, I was amazed that I still had flowers blooming....tom thumbs, gazanias, primroses, fuschias, wallflowers and all my bulbs(narcissi, hyacinth, tulips etc) are all sprouting greatly.

 

Well I did not think last winter was that unusual - we had cold weather before Christmas and I remember thinking it was a while since we had had that. When I was a kid, in the 60s, I always remember that in Manchester we usually got a bad frost usually late October/early November. It was generally pretty cold days before bonfire night. The dahlias were never dug up before they were properly frosted and we had the bonfire where the dahlias had been.
In recent years we would have waited until after Christmas before lifting them and there was one year when I can remember that it hardly dropped below zero all winter here in the North Midlands.
You don't have to go back to the 60s. I think it was 1981 when here in Shropshire we had record low temps - I think it was -32degrees at Shawbury one night. On my allotment all the wood pigeons were dropping dead with the cold. When we moved into my present house 1986 it was so cold I could not level the ground for the greenhouse. A year ot two after the kids were sledging in a foot or two or snow. Last year was the first decent snow we had had since that time.
Certainly been a very mild autumn - I now think of November as an autumnal month, before it was definitely winter. Am worried about the spring diplay. I have several hundred polyanthus in pots to sell come spring and they are flowering.

 

Dixy, unless you have a heated propagator for you cuttings you may have a problem getting them to root this time of year. I also brought some Bougainvillea cuttings back from Puerto De La Cruz last year among others. One variety (the common purple or pink one with glossy small leaves) will flower outside in the late summer/autumn when when big enough, most other varieties will only flower well in the greenhouse/conservatory.
Did you go to the aquatic gardens next to the Casino or the Guanche(bananaera)?

 

We can remember ice on the bedroom WALLS. It was around 25 years ago and long before we got central heating. It was a really hard winter and one of our friends was without water for a month due to the incoming main being frozen. They used to come up to us for a bath. One weekend we had three feet of snow, but I still managed to dig out our drive in order to get to work, though i had to abandon the car and walk the last mile.

 

I remember excercising horses up the main road to Fylingdales (the early warning station that had to be kept open just incase the Russians decided to neuk us)

Anyway it was like riding through a tunnel snow at either side to head hight.

I also remember at my boarding school (where they were too mean to let us have any heat) one girl kiked her hot water bottle out and it was frozen the next morning.

You are right Hornbeam, winters are very different.

 

who remembers chillblains..... ouch! :eek: