On Friday, 27 November 2015 22:15:05 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

Here in N. Bristol Pelargoniums, Begonias, Dahlias etc, in pots on the N. side of the house- they've not seen the sun for a month or two- are still flowering and being pollinated.
I leave out a sacrificial pelargonium every winter. The last time it died was 2011-12. We have a few air frosts of -1 or -2C for an hour or two most winters of course, but the pelargs aren't bothered.
The Dahlia tubers have only succumbed to frost once in 28 years-that was the winter of 2010. Even my P. dactylifera survived. It's next door to a Xmas tree, so I can look out from my balcony and say I have dominion over palm and pine.