Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Hope you’ll understand if I post very little today ... it’s affecting my neck 🙄 Hope everyone’s well and the chilly spell isn’t doing damage 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hugs for @Dovefromabove. Very heavy frost here, g/h looks fine, but a lot of stuff outside has suffered. It is not unusual to get frosts here at this time, but -3C is unusual.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Morning all/afties Pat Take it easy @Dovefromabove. No need to do much Only minus 1 here @punkdoc. Not unusual here to have several frosty nights in a row though. Hope everything recovers in your garden. I don't grow anything that would mind several degrees of frost. Some of the new hydrangea and Fatsia growth gets a bit scorched, but it just grows new stuff. Same with any clematis. Cloudy and breezy now, and I can see it all rolling in from the norf...
Misstra know-it-all is fab, and definitely They Won't Go. Superb song, and not often heard on the radio. George Michael did a very good cover of that. Too many to choose from though.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I love having a bit of Stevie on in the car when I'm on a long trip, but it's also impossible not to do the classic Stevie head movement as well @punkdoc. Cue the funny looks from other drivers I probably get those anyway.....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hot under the sun but chilly in the shade. I’ve moved an old garden table round to the sunny veg and potting area - so I can pot-up on it plus use as an extra place for the plants whilst they young and slug-attractive.
No frost this morning here, well not by the time I got up. No damaged plants, went down to 2 degrees in the unheated greenhouse. It's quite warm here so I've been out and tidied up the pond, was getting too overgrown. I'm hoping my lily will finally flower this year, it's had buds but they have never opened. I think the conifers shaded it too much so now they've gone we might stand a chance of seeing a flower. Also tidied up some of the borders. I have something growing that seems to be taking over the world it looks like a geum or a geranium I have both growing in the area but this one seems a bit aggressive. I'll wait for a flower before I hoike it out. Haven't watered the pots for 2 days because of the frost warnings so gave them a good soak this morning before it got too hot.
Hubby has ventured out to the SM to pick up some supplies and I'm just having a breather before starting again in the garden.
My garden furniture that was supposed to be sent on a 24 hour delivery on the 12th hasn't materialised yet. Hubby cut the table up 2 days ago so he would have lots of room just in case he had to assemble it himself, hopefully it's just delayed due to the current situation.
That's annoying @Yviestevie, anticipation followed by gratification can be good!
Going back to the frost reports, did anyone else read about the 'Ice Saints'. Apparently the colder countries have a belief that it is always frosty on the nights of May 11th (St Mamertus (or St Boniface), May 12th, St Pancras and May 13th, St Servatius, sometimes also Saint Sophia on May 15th. It's otherwise known apparently as the blackthorn winter which I had heard of and includes the last nightly frosts of Spring. Worth noting in our diaries perhaps?
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Hope you’ll understand if I post very little today ... it’s affecting my neck 🙄
Hope everyone’s well and the chilly spell isn’t doing damage 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hugs for @Dovefromabove.
Very heavy frost here, g/h looks fine, but a lot of stuff outside has suffered. It is not unusual to get frosts here at this time, but -3C is unusual.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Take it easy @Dovefromabove. No need to do much
Only minus 1 here @punkdoc. Not unusual here to have several frosty nights in a row though. Hope everything recovers in your garden. I don't grow anything that would mind several degrees of frost. Some of the new hydrangea and Fatsia growth gets a bit scorched, but it just grows new stuff. Same with any clematis.
Cloudy and breezy now, and I can see it all rolling in from the norf...
Misstra know-it-all is fab, and definitely They Won't Go. Superb song, and not often heard on the radio. George Michael did a very good cover of that. Too many to choose from though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I probably get those anyway.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Going back to the frost reports, did anyone else read about the 'Ice Saints'. Apparently the colder countries have a belief that it is always frosty on the nights of May 11th (St Mamertus (or St Boniface), May 12th, St Pancras and May 13th, St Servatius, sometimes also Saint Sophia on May 15th. It's otherwise known apparently as the blackthorn winter which I had heard of and includes the last nightly frosts of Spring. Worth noting in our diaries perhaps?