NW bitter winds with winter squalls here in the west highlands. I took out about 50 bedding plants yesterday to harden off and planted a dozen or so. I shall go out and apologise to their bodies soon, and take the rest back into the overcrowded greenhouse. We'll all catch up soon tho, June will be beautiful!!!
I think we areabout a month behind here in Somerset.the greenhouse is full to bursting with plants waiting to go out,have had good exercise in carrying things back and forth to harden off.
About 3 years ago I had a garden party for charity the end of May. It was 2° and there was sleet, people still laugh about it, but now they say it was snow! Last year I held it in June and it poured. I live in Dordogne! Cold wet spring here too. A lot is late but the roses are starting to come out.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
..As I went out this mornin, around 09.15, my car gave me an ice warning!! Then while out, we had sleet and hail, now dark grey skies and bitter cold rain - don't you love the joys of an English Spring? Many things are flowering though as we did have a couple of nice days,. I have a large flowered Dr Rupple clematis which I left in the greenhouse (it was new to me), and it is flowering its dear little head off - but safely still just inside the greenhouse door. Many overwintered things still in the cold frame as I'd not dare put them put yet, seedlings huge as can't even think about hardening them off without severe losses, yet the tulips are glorious, as are the cowslips and violas, the small irises (not reticulata but 'real' irises, think they are called pumila or similar) flowering away, young acer leaves lovely - and I'm indoors whie the rain tries to break the window.
Yet again the fleece was used on the plants last night in the now 'cant close because they're too tall etc' coldframe & the unheated greenhouse.
Normally all my planting out, patio pots of dahlias, toms & peppers in the greenhouse is complete by the end of May half term- next week- this year, it'll be at least another couple of weeks.
I've had to risk putting out trays of cosmos seedlings, small fuschias etc to by a sheltered house wall, so that I could refill the coldframes with things that were just too big to stay inside on sills any longer. J.
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I'm moving to the Arctic to get a heat....
Any igloos for sale folks...???
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It must be a bit of a bugger for the TV gardeners' programme planners when all their programmes are best viewed on iplayer +1 month!
Just had a look at some late May garden photos for the last few years. Last year's look much the same as now but 2011 was several weeks ahead.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Pardon my French marigolds.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
NW bitter winds with winter squalls here in the west highlands. I took out about 50 bedding plants yesterday to harden off and planted a dozen or so. I shall go out and apologise to their bodies soon, and take the rest back into the overcrowded greenhouse. We'll all catch up soon tho, June will be beautiful!!!
I think we areabout a month behind here in Somerset.the greenhouse is full to bursting with plants waiting to go out,have had good exercise in carrying things back and forth to harden off.
About 3 years ago I had a garden party for charity the end of May. It was 2° and there was sleet, people still laugh about it, but now they say it was snow! Last year I held it in June and it poured. I live in Dordogne! Cold wet spring here too. A lot is late but the roses are starting to come out.
..As I went out this mornin, around 09.15, my car gave me an ice warning!! Then while out, we had sleet and hail, now dark grey skies and bitter cold rain - don't you love the joys of an English Spring? Many things are flowering though as we did have a couple of nice days,. I have a large flowered Dr Rupple clematis which I left in the greenhouse (it was new to me), and it is flowering its dear little head off - but safely still just inside the greenhouse door. Many overwintered things still in the cold frame as I'd not dare put them put yet, seedlings huge as can't even think about hardening them off without severe losses, yet the tulips are glorious, as are the cowslips and violas, the small irises (not reticulata but 'real' irises, think they are called pumila or similar) flowering away, young acer leaves lovely - and I'm indoors whie the rain tries to break the window.
Yet again the fleece was used on the plants last night in the now 'cant close because they're too tall etc' coldframe & the unheated greenhouse.
Normally all my planting out, patio pots of dahlias, toms & peppers in the greenhouse is complete by the end of May half term- next week- this year, it'll be at least another couple of weeks.
I've had to risk putting out trays of cosmos seedlings, small fuschias etc to by a sheltered house wall, so that I could refill the coldframes with things that were just too big to stay inside on sills any longer. J.