Happy New Year! Anyone got any Violets yet?

[Muddypaws]

Seen here with today's Times masthead for verification, actually this chap has been out since 28th December, but today is the first day I have bought a paper since before Christmas, and remembered to take the camera on the afternoon's doggy walk.

Also out (first blooming on New Year's Day) is this Cow Parsley.

Anyone else got some tales of ridiculously early blooming flowers?

 

[Trencakey]

No Violets yet but we've had a Primrose here flowering through christmas

 

[Niels]

Cow parsley is blooming here too, but I'd say it's blooming extremely late rather than early, because they've been blooming since spring last year.

 

[Shewie]

No Violets yet but we've had a Primrose here flowering through christmas

Lots of Primroses flowering up here too, the beds in the park are full of colour