It's spring time!

Me too , whats happening ?

Spring is respringing in my garden too.

I had a primrose and a cyclamen both flower next to each other at the same time weeks ago. It's no wonder I can't remember what time of year it is these days [we have had Easter, haven't we?].

Autumn primroses are the same family but not the same species as spring primroses. They are all Primula something. Native spring primroses are Primula vulgaris. What you are seeing now is not that but Primula something else.

Yep, Primula something else, but lovely nevertheless!

But I planted it in the spring and it flowered then [I think].

Quite a lot of plants flower twice a year, especially if they are happy.

We often get 2 lots of flowers from our primroses, spring and autumn, and that's in the NE of Scotland, so it's not the temperature that's doing it! Particularly not this year... i always thought that it is just something they do, and very nice too.

I am definitely seeing spring primroses (there is now more than one). This plant is part of a swathe of self-sown primroses that grow in the gravel in front of our garden wall. Only one plant is in flower, the rest are obviously waiting for spring.

My apple tree is sprouting new growth!

Our primulas flower most of the except for June and July. They're now coming back into flower. The proper primroses in the bank generally stick to just the spring but this year some in shadier spots are coming into bloom. They did it last year too.

I think it is something to do with light levels which tricks them into thinking it's spring.
jeni my apple tree, which produced a best ever crop of Cox's last year, has managed two shrunken specimens this - it produced blossom which then rotted and fell off when the rain started in early May and continued with little respite till the end of July
Goodness knows what it's thinking now!

The phrase "proper primroses" says it all, and in fact repeats what I said earlier: primulas (not primulas, not primroses) flower at various times of the year, depending on what exact variety they are. Primula vulgaris, the wild flower, only flowers in spring. Any primulas that are flowering now are not, repeat not, Primula vulgaris, so their flowering now is nothing remarkable, except insofar as flowers are always remarkable and usually lovely.

that should be "note primulas, not primroses"

edit facility wish emoticon!

I planted primula vulgaris in our bank about five years ago and groups of multi coloured primulas and the candelabra ones in the rest of the garden. I wonder if there's been a bit of cross pollination? They are still the right colour.