From the Independent 26th January 2016

‘It’s unheard-of: after the warmest and wettest December on record, more
than 600 species of British wildflowers were in bloom on New Year’s Day
2016, a major survey has shown.

In a normal cold winter, botanists would expect no more than 20 to 30 types
of wild plants to be in flower in the British Isles at the year’s end –
species such as daisy, dandelion and gorse.

But a survey by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) has
discovered that on 1 January, no fewer than 612 species were actually
flowering, including some from late spring and high summer – an occurrence
which seems to be without precedent, and has left plant scientists
astonished.’

 

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Peter 

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