Volunteer gardener Tom Morris
Spring seems to have sprung a month early.
The mild weather is believed to be behind the early arrival of daffodils around the county.
These, pictured at SS Gregory and Augustine Church, in Woodstock Road, Oxford, began to bloom earlier this week.
According to the Met Office, the past 12 months have been the second warmest for the UK after 2006, when the average temperature reached 9.73C (49.5F).
The average for 2011 was 9.62C (49.3F).
In Oxfordshire, December was 1.1C warmer than the average. Met spokesman Dan Williams said the mild weather should last until the weekend when temperatures are expected to drop.
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