FLOWERS are bursting into life weeks ahead of schedule.
Daffodils are lining roadsides and gardens are seeing really early splashes of colour.
At the Eden Project, the heady scent of spring is already in the air.
Gardeners say they’ve never known so much early botanical activity due to the extraordinarily mild winter. Temperatures have consistently been several degrees above the average.
The stars of the show at the Eden Project are the heavily-scented Nepalese paper plants, shrubs covered in small pink flowers known for their sweet aroma.
Other examples of early flowering at the Eden Project include crocuses, the spring snowflake, the long yellow daylily and various varieties of daffodil.