Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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cackleberry Dec 2024 9:39pm, 29 Dec 2024 4,425 posts	0 cackleberry Saw some snowdrops out in someone's front garden.
3FrenchMs Dec 2024 6:56am, 30 Dec 2024 25,453 posts	0 3FrenchMs There's been flower buds on the trees around our estate for the last month or so!
Rosehip Dec 2024 3:43pm, 30 Dec 2024 34,053 posts	0 Rosehip my quince is flowering
Columba Dec 2024 3:51pm, 30 Dec 2024 22,673 posts	0 Columba Mine too. And there's a primrose in flower in the front garden. But no sign of snowdrops yet.
Velociraptor Dec 2024 4:06pm, 30 Dec 2024 72,950 posts	0 Velociraptor There are leaf buds on my rowans. I don't know whether this is unusual or not. No flowers yet but plenty of daffodil spikes. Having slugs eat the pansies I put in last month took me by surprise
PaulaMc Dec 2024 6:19pm, 30 Dec 2024 13,074 posts	0 PaulaMc I planted some crocuses with my granddaughter on 11 October, expecting them to flower in March. One of them has already bloomed and others aren’t far off.
LazyDaisy Dec 2024 6:23pm, 30 Dec 2024 41,168 posts	0 LazyDaisy Interesting - Google photos often shows me snaps from 'this day X years ago' and today's and yesterdays from 2016 were of daffodils in flower and plenty of blossom out on the quince near our house.
angelrose Dec 2024 10:09pm, 30 Dec 2024 65,329 posts	0 angelrose I saw some daffs out the week before Christmas, but then I usually do so not unusual.
Cheeky’s Dad Dec 2024 10:14pm, 30 Dec 2024 6,306 posts	0 Cheeky’s Dad alpenrose wrote:I saw some daffs out the week before Christmas, but then I usually do so not unusual. I think Daf’s can be very dependant upon variety and area of the country. My Mum used to have some which were reliably pre-Christmas in west Cornwall (I can’t remember the variety however