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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Some of my early-flowering crocuses have broken the surface. Can spring be far away?

    Yes.  Spring will be the two weeks after Summer next year. :D
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Just heard my grandson’s past his entrance exam for Oxford  and has an interview. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That's really good news @Lyn, well done him!

    My RTBT today is that I was able to pick quite a big bunch of roses and other flowers from the garden today.  We're hoping to take them up to the village where my family  are buried and have a jolly good lunch in the local pub.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Have just watched a glorious sunset. Gorgeous.

    Artificial Christmas tree up but not dressed yet. Looks OK as it is a fibre optics one.

    My Christmas treat to me was delivered today. Some Rose and Geranium Leaf toilet soap. Yum.
    Who is a happy girl today? Me, me, me!
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Bumble bee so busy on the winter clematis's sis, clematie?
    Seems rarely a day goes by so far this year without seeing them.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited December 2020
    Third declension nominative plural of clematis would be clēmatidēs. But as we don’t speak Latin clematis or clematises are the accepted plural forms.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    And there I was thinking clematis was an ancient Greek word, like geranium.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Obelixx you’re quite right in thinking the word is Greek in origin, spelled klematis.
    Rutland, England
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Etymology. The genus name Clematis is from Ancient Greek clématis, ("a climbing plant") from κλῆμα klema – 'twig, sprout, tendril'.
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