Having had our summer in April followed by Autumn and Winter weather in May, June and July, my plants don't know what season it is! :-\
I have helebores flowering and have many new buds on the plants, waiting to open. All my primula plants have grown new leaves and now have flowers. Well, they did have until the birds picked them off but there are lots of buds still to come out.
What a strange year this has been. ::)
There's time yet, for it to go really weird!
:-X
Sorry, but it`s got to be summer. I know that because the annual summer sighting of Lord Lucan has just occurred.
Are ya telling me the dark glasses and floppy hat did not work. >:(
My magnolia is in flower too!!!
I saw in the Daily Mail a while back pictures of daffodills in flower right now(somewhere, i forget where it was).
I too have had the odd primula in flower and most wonderfully bizarre of all a couple of Helleborus x hybridus (lenten hellebores) in bloom!
A wood pigeon was sitting on my flat roof this morning with a huge piece of straw in its mouth. It then flew away with it. Collared doves have also been collecting nesting materials. I think they must be really confused, perhaps they too think it is Spring. :-\
Pigeons especially collared doves breed all year. I have noticed my quince is in flower again.
;) :) :)
I have just picked blossom from my new cherry tree, and I also had one apple on my new tree with blossom on other branches. I thought it was just me who was confused ??? ???
Rosemary
I've got a magnolia in flower as well, but the dahlias still think it's May.
Now's the main time for pigeons to breed, as they feed their young on "milk" which they regurgitate. They'll eat seed, but strip brassicas as well to make it.
Quote from: Carol on August 14, 2007, 14:00:14
Pigeons especially collared doves breed all year.
Its wood pigeons with me. One male is always trying to get it on with a lady wood pigeon!
Aha, I didn't know that about the collard doves and pigeons. We have had a pair making whoopee for a while now and they have built a nest in our willow.
Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on August 14, 2007, 22:58:05
Aha, I didn't know that about the collard doves and pigeons. We have had a pair making whoopee for a while now and they have built a nest in our willow.
I wasnt even sure they built nests until recently when one of our pigeons was spotted trying to gather material for one. You see other birds nest building but I had never before seen a pigeon do it. As for 'the other' the only problem I have with the pigeons is the noise they make, both courting and the deed itself. Not exactly subtle or discrete!