Iris flowering in December!

[gardenqueen]

I haven't been able, over the last couple of days anyway, to get out and take a pic, but I have an Iris which has been flowering since well before Christmas. Normally it doesn't flower until spring!

Has anyone else any tales to tell of plants that are flowering at the wrong time?

[gardenqueen]

[agapanthus]

Went to lottie yesterday and picked a trug full of herbs.....
marjoram, oregano,parsley, mint and coriander!!!!

[Larkspur]

Up at the allotment this morning I noticed that three of the pots of tulip bulbs I store up there to bring home when they are in flower are showing shoots. They are about two months earlier than I have ever known :o.

[montanum]

I don't know which Iris you have flowering at the moment but here we grow Iris unguiculares. It flowers from November to February with lovely primrose scented blooms

[lorna]

My Allgold rose (50th anniversary present 2002) has got two lovely buds which are just opening up.

[angle shades]

hardy geraniums
rosemary white and purple flowered
3 different sorts of roses in full bloom
labelia -blue
argyranthemums white and yellow varieties
fuchsias many varieties
swan river daisies and other hanging basket flowers
penstomens
tangerine,pineapple and blackcurrant sage
pelagoniums
cape daisies, I could go on, these are all out with violas, pansies,hellebore's etc.
it doesn't feel like December does it!!??/shades x

[carrot-cruncher]

Three strawberry plants!!!!

and at the parent's house a white floribunda

[gardenqueen]

Wow what amazing lists. Should we now be thinking mediterranean plantings for next year?

[Georgie]

Similar to others.  I have pelagoniums and a geranium in flower and snowdrops in bud.  Still have three ripe fruits on the passiflora and fruits forming on one of my rasberry bushes.  Parsley, thyme, oregano all looking fresh, rosemary in flower and watercress going mad.  Narcissi, muscari and iris are also well in leaf.  Madness.   ;D

G x