So far, this has been a mild wet and windy winter in the UK and I have several plants in my garden which are flowering out of season.
For example: calendular, camelia, fuschia, hebe salicifolia, great knapweed (Centaurea macrocephala), nasturtium, primrose (flowering for past month), snowflake. Alongside those which normally flower at this time; even daffodils and tulips are showing green leaves.
The camelia is full of buds so I hope we don't get a hard frost.
So are other people also finding unusual flowers this year?
Examples:-
7D and 24-105 lens, flash used on some.
Not perfect shots as some blooms are showing a bit of wind/rain damage; and although the rain had stopped and wind eased I had to cope with poor light and some wind rock problems.
The fuchsia was particularly difficult to find a suitable angle and full flash was tending to cause over exposure difficulties so I had to take an under exposed shot then try to increase partial brightness later. It has partially worked but I think the result seems a little 'artificial' so I will probably have another go at that one.
And on reflection, I think I will need to clone out the background leaf on the knapweed. If I had noticed how the tip was browned I would have zapped it before shooting.
It would have been better to cut the flowers then shoot under controlled conditions but these shots were part of testing my new camera.