New Year bouquet

Botanists have a tradition of submitting lists of species seen flowering on or around the first of January. I never get round to doing it but I do make a point of noticing as many as I can.
Here are nine doing their best to bloom, or else retain their petals, despite the wind and rain (no snow so far).

Left to right from top: dandelion, daisy, red campion, primrose, knapweed, celandine, gorse, winter heliotrope, Alexanders.
I also saw hogweed and, I think, a single herb Robert.

Winter heliotrope and Alexanders were both Mediterranean plants originally so their internal clocks are still set to their ancestral climate zone - but ours is catching up and hence both species are spreading.

Not everyone realises that the blooming season of  plants can  be  artificially altered if the earliest flowering specimens are repeatedly selected to interbreed. Every year there are exclamations of surprise and concern when daffodils  are reported in flower around Christmas "Oh dear, it's climate change!"
It may be - but then again, in this case it may not.

Many years ago a  neighbour of ours planted dozens of daffodil bulbs along his approach road in anticipation of his daughter's spring wedding. He was mortified when they bloomed in early January. He hadn't realised that the bulbs he'd bought had been selectively bred for winter flowering and were long over by St David's Day.