Is it just going to get gradually warmer (and hopefully drier) and ease gently into spring or if we are going to get a really cold spell first, how far in advance do meteorologists know/guess?
When there is a break in the rain here in London and I can even get outside to have a look at my garden, I can see shoots everywhere. Daffodils and narcissus just starting to emerge, snowdrops all out at last, shoots on irises and dwarf acres...now if it could just stop raining for a couple of weeks please....
Scary winds today and I can feel the house shuddering and rain battering at the windows. We lost power for a while but back on now. Thrush is still out in the garden which I'm so pleased about. I always marvel how birds manage to fly about with the high winds.
Although this has been, and still is, a horrid, wet and windy day, the hedge is alive with small birds chasing each other about - mostly blue tits and sparrow, plus a pair of robins, so in spite of it all, they think Spring may be on its way!
Snowdrops are gorgeous, daffs. got their buds, loads of bulbs poking up - especially the ones I can't remember planting there. Some aconite's, a plant I have tried for many years to get established, and this year it looks as if they might really give it a go - hooray.
Some years ago a crocus bulb fell from my hand and rolled under the step at the at the front of our house, no soil there, just a tiled step - it has flowered every year since, and this year has 4 flower stems showing deeply purple there. No idea where it gets its nourishment, but it is slowly spreading - great.
I felt the house shuldder this evening and could hear the slates lift off the roof. The M6 closed near us and there was an accident on the M55. Blackpool prom is closed due to high tides and my phone hasn't stopped ringing all evening to check I got home ok after work.
It's gone very quite now but the gales are due back later. I'm off to bed, hope I sleep through it.
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Is it just going to get gradually warmer (and hopefully drier) and ease gently into spring or if we are going to get a really cold spell first, how far in advance do meteorologists know/guess?
Here you are Mike, listen to this http://birdsong.fm/ it'll cheer you up
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I declare it Spring when I get my legs out
Do sometimes end up with very cold legs.
Ah, that sounds lovely Forester!
When there is a break in the rain here in London and I can even get outside to have a look at my garden, I can see shoots everywhere. Daffodils and narcissus just starting to emerge, snowdrops all out at last, shoots on irises and dwarf acres...now if it could just stop raining for a couple of weeks please....
Scary winds today and I can feel the house shuddering and rain battering at the windows. We lost power for a while but back on now. Thrush is still out in the garden which I'm so pleased about. I always marvel how birds manage to fly about with the high winds.
That would be lovely Edd
Although this has been, and still is, a horrid, wet and windy day, the hedge is alive with small birds chasing each other about - mostly blue tits and sparrow, plus a pair of robins, so in spite of it all, they think Spring may be on its way!
Snowdrops are gorgeous, daffs. got their buds, loads of bulbs poking up - especially the ones I can't remember planting there. Some aconite's, a plant I have tried for many years to get established, and this year it looks as if they might really give it a go - hooray.
Some years ago a crocus bulb fell from my hand and rolled under the step at the at the front of our house, no soil there, just a tiled step - it has flowered every year since, and this year has 4 flower stems showing deeply purple there. No idea where it gets its nourishment, but it is slowly spreading - great.
Such a lovely observation about the crocus bulb, Bookertoo! I think that is what gardening is all about.
It's gone very quite now but the gales are due back later. I'm off to bed, hope I sleep through it.