Why our plants are flowering earlier each year

Plants are flowering earlier, leading to an ecological mismatch

By ensuring a wide variety of plant species growing in our garden we will be sustaining as wide a range of wildlife as possible.

How often have you heard yourself saying recently that some plant or other is in flower very early?

As a small child, I used to keep a gardening diary, one of the many good childhood habits of mine that have been lost with the advancing years. I really enjoyed keeping it too, I could look back at similar dates from previous years and see what was in flower last year. Now, as I only kept it erratically for about three years, it isn’t what we could call a solid piece of research.