Our trees are confused...

Here were I live they are changing color. that is what they do in fall. I do not see anything blooming this time of the year. but freak weather can cause things to happen.

Hec k they might be and white blossoms make me think of apple trees unless they are Magnolia trees and the flower on them come out all the time

mine are too.more than half still have leaves..which is unusual for november. but it's also supposed to be 67 today-also weird for november. although..i'm saving gas with this heat so..i'll take a wee bit of global warming.

Th is afternoon, I saw a Bradford pear that was completely covered with white blossoms. When I mentioned this to the lady sitting next to me at a wedding we were at, she said she didn't see the pear, but her peach and apple trees each had a few blooms. A few days ago one of the weather forecasters had mentioned the fact that some of the trees were confused about the season. He, too, blamed it on the long, hot dry summer topped by the one good fall rain, which awakened them from dormancy.

That's happening everywhere Elic.. They are all yielding at wrong times. Same is the fate in my garden too. If only trees could speak. They would have a sad story to tell. Nature has gone haywire.

I don't know what type of tree it is .If it normally blossoms in spring,then it is abnormal to blossom at this point.Nowadays,there are freaks of weather,nobody can say for sure what you said can't come up.

yes the weather is unseasonable warm here in Montreal and the leaves on the trees are still plentiful here as well.

Of course they are!! We have been listening to and reading any such stories in the recent past and these have been linked to the bad influence of pollution and the meddling of humans with nature!

Yep, they're confused, poor things! They're reacting normally, though. Plants, even grass, goes dormant in extreme temperatures and extreme drought. It's a self-preservation thing, I guess you could call it. I learned this last year when we had our extreme summer with excessively high temps and almost no rain. One of the gardening clubs I belong to wrote about grass in particular saying not to water it as it would go dormant in an effort to protect itself, just as it would in the winter. Watering it during a drought could actually kill it! Then, you get a bunch of rain and these plants come out of dormancy, just as they would in the spring. I wouldn't worry, though. Trees have been known to blossom or bud twice in the same year. It all depends on weather conditions and how often they go into (and out of) dormancy. P.S. I have four Christmas cactus growing inside and they're blossoming right now. I don't think I've ever had a Christmas cactus actually bloom at Christmas time.

I have seen trees leaves start to turn colors in August when the normal time to do it is September and October. I remember like two years ago after a warm spell in October seeing dandolions pop on people's lawns! Unuaual weather does screw up trees and other things!

yes, they sure are. We all are. the Weather is very confusing this year.. and it seems to be happening around the world!! The world is depressed or is on strike?

The weather seems to have a lot of things confused. The trees are just one. There are still a lot of birds here. Normally they have gone south by now. We have only had 1 really cold day, it is usually in the 60's, which is unusual for the north. Usually the last time the grass is cut is in October. The guy that cuts it called yesterday and he is going to come one more time. It would be fine with me if it stayed warm like this, but that probably won't happen.

I think is because of all the changes that the temperature is having,(snow in October) storms,global warming and everything.The atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades.[2] Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are more than 90% certain most of it is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuel.