A bumper azaleas bloom for Brenda

Keen gardener Brenda Pritchard is celebrating a bumper bloom from her prized azaleas.

But the 90-year-old from Wollaston, in Stourbridge, says she has been puzzled by the winter crop thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures.

Mrs Pritchard, a great grandmother of 11, says the scrub usually flowers sometime in the middle to late spring.

But its pink flowers have been out since before Christmas and have been in bloom for the second time in 12 months.

Friends and family have complimented her on the amazing azalea which she has grown for over four decades.

"It must be the climate, that's the only reason I can think of as it is so unusual for it to flower at this time of year," she said.

"They are lovely pink, salmon-coloured flowers and they look really nice this year."

Mrs Pritchard and her late husband Arthur were given the little scrub as a present in a pot and decided to plant it out when they moved to their Wollaston home.

She says the bush is more than three ft high with each flower measuring three and a half inches across.