Spring in December

My gardens are confused.  Some plants are still blooming from summer, some are blooming early and some are coming back up!  Two weeks of warm, wet weather is having a dramatic impact.  Here is a ginger lily that has continued to bloom since August.  Although we have had several frosts, this is close enough to the house to be protected.  It should be long dormant by now.

In addition to the lily, I have geraniums still blooming.

This Daphne bush usually blooms in late January, but here it is, blooming the earliest I have ever seen it.

Of more concern to me, are the spring bloomers that are emerging.  My forsythia is beginning to bud.

Some of my early perennials  and bulbs are also beginning to come up.  These are purple spiderwort. I also see daffodils and other plants beginning to emerge.  If we actually do have winter this year, I don't know what the result will be.

On a different plant note, we were in the mountains this past weekend, and found this huge leaf.  I think it is from an American Sycamore tree, but I am still trying to verify that.