WManchester- Heavy rain overnight. Awoke to no snow except a small heap where a neighbour had cleared his drive. Our drive all clear- am glad I didnt waste my limited energy clearing it yesterday.
We've had sunshine & a couple of stiff showers. Blustery wind. Washing almost dry & already ironed. Need to tie up a small evergreen that got squashed open by the snow.
Woke up this morning to find the snow and ice that had been covering everywhere in Leicestershire for a fortnight all gone! Had a wander around the garden and can finally see lots of bulb shoots appearing - they've obviously been growing under the snow. Everywhere is saturated after a night of rain of course, but at least the weed roots come out easily, so did some removal of the creeping field buttercup which plagues my garden, before it has a chance to smother the ground. One lot of manure bought 20 years ago must have been infested with seeds of that damn stuff as I've never used manure since!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Rain in the night which has cleared all the snow. At times windy but on the whole a pleasant day. It was nice to get out into the garden, first time in weeks.
Planted up some more garlic into modules, the lot planted in October hasn't even developed roots so thought I'd try again before the last frost, started this lot indoors and they've thick roots with shoots coming through.
Always been lucky with manure, no seeds in it. I've Lots of bulbs coming through, the labels have blown away though but me thinks crocus, dafs and tulips are coming up along with blue bells in front garden.
Belis, Sweet William and foxglove, planted out last year have all survived the snow. Really pleased with the foxgloves, unless something disastrous happens they should put on a good show later in the year, fingers crossed. Some stuff has died in the GH, there's cornflower and sweet pea doing well. For-get-me-nots not looking good though, bring on Spring.
Verdun. I've found most flowers sown here in the NW at this time of year don't usually germinate unless sown indoors and then you need to nurture them until the last of the frost before planting out which is why I started to sow hardy stuff before the on set of Winter and planted them out in Autumn.
In the GH, Cornflower survived the Winter of 2010 but not 2011, we've had a mild winter this time, by all means try but if you aren't successful then consider sowing in Autumn next year. Cornflower can't cope with their pots being frozen.
Notts/derbyshire border. I have never seen such a fast thaw. Midnight last night 8 inches thick snow on ice, then it threw it down with rain until at 8am this morning no snow left except for small mounds where we had piled the snow high while clearing the drive every day. Amazing. It's been a lovely sunny day (first in a long time) and everything's dried out quickly. I wonder where all the water went. !!!!!
Cold and windy here in Worcs today. Christmas tree in pot blown over and a quick walk around the garden has shown the lavetera broken I guess by the weight of the snow. No real rain just a very damp feel at moment.
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WManchester- Heavy rain overnight. Awoke to no snow except a small heap where a neighbour had cleared his drive. Our drive all clear- am glad I didnt waste my limited energy clearing it yesterday.
We've had sunshine & a couple of stiff showers. Blustery wind. Washing almost dry & already ironed. Need to tie up a small evergreen that got squashed open by the snow.
Birds on/off feeders most of the day. J.
Woke up this morning to find the snow and ice that had been covering everywhere in Leicestershire for a fortnight all gone! Had a wander around the garden and can finally see lots of bulb shoots appearing - they've obviously been growing under the snow.
Everywhere is saturated after a night of rain of course, but at least the weed roots come out easily, so did some removal of the creeping field buttercup which plagues my garden, before it has a chance to smother the ground. One lot of manure bought 20 years ago must have been infested with seeds of that damn stuff as I've never used manure since! 
Daffodils, to look forward to. 2012, which was poor for daffodils as spring here was very dry. Hopeful for 2013.
Rain in the night which has cleared all the snow. At times windy but on the whole a pleasant day. It was nice to get out into the garden, first time in weeks.
Planted up some more garlic into modules, the lot planted in October hasn't even developed roots
so thought I'd try again before the last frost, started this lot indoors and they've thick roots with shoots coming through
.
Always been lucky with manure, no seeds in it. I've Lots of bulbs coming through, the labels have blown away though
but me thinks crocus, dafs and tulips are coming up along with blue bells in front garden.
Belis, Sweet William and foxglove, planted out last year have all survived the snow. Really pleased with the foxgloves, unless something disastrous happens they should put on a good show later in the year, fingers crossed. Some stuff has died in the GH, there's cornflower and sweet pea doing well. For-get-me-nots not looking good though, bring on Spring.
Verdun. I've found most flowers sown here in the NW at this time of year don't usually germinate unless sown indoors and then you need to nurture them until the last of the frost before planting out which is why I started to sow hardy stuff before the on set of Winter and planted them out in Autumn.
In the GH, Cornflower survived the Winter of 2010 but not 2011, we've had a mild winter this time, by all means try but if you aren't successful then consider sowing in Autumn next year. Cornflower can't cope with their pots being frozen.
The Fens; blowy, sunny, not too nippy.
Cold and windy here in Worcs today. Christmas tree in pot blown over and a quick walk around the garden has shown the lavetera broken I guess by the weight of the snow. No real rain just a very damp feel at moment.
Flood warnings are now in place,