Daffidils with flower heads

[Digeroo]

I am right it is still December!!!

[Digeroo]

[Paulines7]

On our trip to Southampton on Christmas Eve, we passed gardens with many daffs in flower.  Ours have got buds but then we are less sheltered here being on the edge of Salisbury Plain.  We have many flowers out nevertheless, including pulmonaria, roses, wallflowers and saxifraga. 

It is very Spring like outside but I will not complain as I hate the winter. 

[galina]

Yes you are right we are in December!  And Happy New Year for tomorrow Digeroo and all!   

Here we also have daffs in bud, but in the next street I have spied fully opened ones - crazy or what?

[markfield rover]

Fully open in Bristol and Abergavenny ! But more the narcissus .

[laurieuk]

The warm weather could result in some very interesting spring flower shows. So often we get left with many good flowers that are not out in time for the flower shows, but this coming season may well see some varieties that have not made the show bench for many years. I did have 160 different varieties but now down to 90 as I now have no garden and so they are all in pots on my allotment. So many of the best ones are in the late  season as breeders used to leave pollinating until the end of the season  when they had more time, but with pollen being stored now things are easier.

[lavenderlux]

We have daffodils out on our allotment site, also Snowdrops, Violets and wild Primroses.  Some of our Hazel catkins are already shedding pollen.  There seems to be plenty of 'autumn' food for the birds still as we have crab apple fruits hardly touched (most years these have all gone by Christmas) although the Blackbirds were having a feast on fallen apples on another part of our site yesterday.