If you want to get technical, winter solstice isn't for another 10 days. We are having a mild December, no question. One year the whole month of December was mild. I posted on this forum Knockout roses in full bloom the first week of January. Eventually the cold temps get here and everything goes dormant, no harm done.

Ever-blooming type roses bloom all year where the climate permits - being in bloom now will have no effect on next year's bloom. The cherry on the other hand does set a finite number of buds each summer, with any opening in autumn not being present to open the following spring. But usually most buds wait until spring, so that a concentrated display will still occur then.

If your cherry is 'Autumnalis Rosea' (sold incorrectly as 'Autumnalis') it usually has a fair number of flowers out in autumn, hence the name.

the question ... i dont have an answer to ... is...

have they gone dormant... and have come out of it .... [which i doubt ...

or have they just not gone dormant yet ...

if the former .. should bloom fine in spring ...

if the latter ... maybe there will be a problem ...

there are at least 2 or 3 rose forums .... you might find the hardcore in one of those forums...

ken

A few of my roses are blooming now. I am north of you near Allentown. They will likely go dormant in January. In April they will begin growth as usual with blooms in May. In warmer zones many roses bloom nearly all year round.

Even though December is statistically the coldest month ever-blooming roses are often still out at Christmas here, with January being about the only time of the year when roses don't seem to be doing anything - I've had problems with rooting rose cuttings in the ground and then never getting them transplanted because they were in leaf most of the time.

Spring for roses here is Feb. In fact a local weather professor says spring in general for us is Feb-Jul, with the annual summer warming and drying not fully overcoming the lingering winter wetness until Jul.

How about Dafadils? They are now coming up, and we still have January and February for cold whether

If it is just the daffodil foliage coming up they will be fine and will bloom in due course. If they are flowering that's it for this season. Once bloomed daffodils won't rebloom until they have had another season's growth and dormancy. Some of mine have already flowered and been eaten by slugs so they're finished until next spring.

Roses bloom on new wood so there will be new buds set for springtime blooming. Cherry trees are different, they bloom on the previous season's wood and if they are in full bloom now due to the mild winter we are having, there will be less or no blooms come springtime. Many plants are confused by the weather here in the NE.