Carol mentioned something about a second spring in another thread a couple of weeks ago, and I discovered that some trees and bushes are behaving strangely this autumn. I recently discovered that some of the wild pear trees around here are producing flower as if it is already spring again, I wonder what they will do next spring. I believe the one in the photos is what Lanfranchis & Sfikas calls Pyrus spinosa (= P. amygdaliformis, none of these names arefound in the IPNI Plant Lis, thought). They can be very spiny, and I have a couple in our garden that have been grafted, one with pears (producing much more than we can eat), and a second one with both pears and apples.
The other bush which seems to believe it is spring is a broom, which one I’m not quite sure, but maybe somebody can tell me? They are not spiny, the flours are fairly large, I don’t think the leaves were hairy. The one in the photo was probably nearly 3 m tall. (Photos taken with my phone camera.)