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Old November 28th 15, 09:36 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default No-one has told the garden that winter is here in a few days

On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 10:15:05 PM UTC, Brac wrote:
Here in NE Suffolk,

The grass is growing full-speed-ahead and it badly needs cutting.
Though we have had a couple of ground frosts and a dusting of snow, the dahlias are intact and preparing new flowers.
One of the begonias thinks it is spring and has began growing like crazy.
Assorted other plants have flowered a second time when they should have waited until 2016.

It's unheard of since autumn 2014, which was also hyper mild.

Brac


Grass is still growing at full pelt here in Wanstead and I can't be bothered to go out and cut it. The sharp frost last weekend has given my geraniums a real hammering though - they have been growing happily for the last three years before that...

I went to buy some box hedging last week but was warned off by the nursery keeper because of the amount of blight on current specimens. She said that we need a proper, cold winter to kill off all the bugs.