Here near Paris we have only had about 10 cold days, loads of trees in bud already. My Hydrangeas budded in Autumn with one even giving a flower in November, bit worried a cold streak expected this week is going to wipe out the buds!
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
We've planted 3 new apple trees and a crab apple this winter. In a warmish spell it looked like the apple trees were going to get too excited so I had a chat and told them to slow down cos heavy frosts were forecast. I've done that several times now and, so far so good.
Must admit I haven't looked at the peaches, nectarine, apricot and pear trees or the currant bushes but none of the trees and shrubs in the hedgerows is looking to be at bud burst stage yet.
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)."
Interesting, it’s definitely been cold here, 0-2C overnight and 5ish in the day, then well into the minus temps in the cold snaps! Has been very dry lately, seem to have had less storms than last year
It's all relative though isn't it? We've had even more rain than usual because normally, a lot of the time it would be colder, and would be falling as snow, especially after the new year. We've only had one fall of snow, and you'd barely have noticed it. We've had heavier frosts. We've had fewer of those too- we would normally get upwards of 50 or 60 frosts between about October and April. Definitely not had anything like that. It's the swings between mild and cold that I've noticed more than anything - the gaps between those temps have definitely been wider. We've also had a couple of nights recently where it's been 8 or 9 degrees. We'd not normally have anywhere that during the day at this time of year.
The newest walkhighlands newsletter has an article with the headline "18 months of mildness- erm, is this normal? " Says it all really.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No fruit trees budding yet in my Sussex garden but I did notice today some small Hawthorn leaves in a hedge. I have an outside peach tree and it is always the first to flower for me but it's still in winter mode.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
@Fairygirl definitely! This is only my second winter here too so I’m sure I’ll see soon what’s “normal” last year it seemed like it rained all winter and we had loads of high winds and storms!
The blossom trees have some buds on but they are firmly closed 🤣
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Must admit I haven't looked at the peaches, nectarine, apricot and pear trees or the currant bushes but none of the trees and shrubs in the hedgerows is looking to be at bud burst stage yet.
We've had fewer of those too- we would normally get upwards of 50 or 60 frosts between about October and April. Definitely not had anything like that.
It's the swings between mild and cold that I've noticed more than anything - the gaps between those temps have definitely been wider. We've also had a couple of nights recently where it's been 8 or 9 degrees. We'd not normally have anywhere that during the day at this time of year.
The newest walkhighlands newsletter has an article with the headline "18 months of mildness- erm, is this normal? " Says it all really.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The blossom trees have some buds on but they are firmly closed 🤣