I hope this finally silences those global warming scamsters, but I doubt it. It has become a religion to many of them.

We're OK in mid-low Oregon City, whew. The hydrangea leaves are black and curled around the edges and the strawberry katsura the same -- don't know if the katsura will survive. That Saturday at 80 degrees then all this cold weather has taken a toll but not as bad as I feared. Our huge curly willow is losing its leaves again; it has some weird wilt that it semi-recovers from in June.

Just planted 4 trees yesterday and although cool it was good planting weather. Put in a luscious awesome Pinus monticola native to this area. Loen's has a bunch of 4-5' Picea omorikas for just $15. Planted one, will buy 2 more. Looking for a forest pansy redbud at a decent price but can't find one. Found the exact sweet cheery tree I wanted, Prunus avium 'Lapins' at Portland Nursery and planted it; the birds will be ecstatic in a couple years :-)

We need real rain, not just this little mist here and there. Been watering. Have some abutilons that have dead leaves hanging on them, don't know whether to cut the 3' stalks or not. How does it regenerate?

Planted a Norway spruce and the one from last year is doing really well.
Just want to see everything establish and grow. 2 years 3+ months since 1st batch of 200 trees planted, really want to watch them leap. Might be too early still. Very impatient over here for Spring!

When the sun and a little warmer weather arrives this yard will go bonkers. The grass is so lush and thick now. Pruned more. Amazing how much plants seem to appreciate judicious pruning.

In the last week we've had snow, freezing, sleet, hail, ice pellet thunderstorms, lightening, rain, and slits of bright warm sunshine. It was cold. Scattered a lot of bird seed and kept all the suets full for the feathered friends. Squirrels grateful too, and fat. A robin pair has taken up residence here and the wife had a hard time convincing Mr to take his bath in the icy water. Quite funny to watch Mrs demonstrate with full dunks and then Mr just skitter around the edge and plunk one foot in and refuse!

Right about now, since it snowed this am again!, I'm thinking global warming looks pretty good!

At least if it's been cold, it hasn't been too wet. I've still had to do some watering of outdoor potted plants off and on this spring.

The global warming talk will die off when glaciers around the world make a significant advance and desertification starts to reverse.

Global warming doesn't just translate directly to overall warming temperatures alone. While global temperatures have demonstrated a gradual but significant increase since the mid 20th century (hard to argue with that - it's documented and substantiated), extreme weather conditions (more frequent and more severe storms, high winds, etc.) resulting from these increases are also on the rise. One of the effects of receeding glaciers and ice caps is the cooling of northern waters and cooler waters affect the jet stream. It is anticipated that more northerly locations (Northern Europe, parts of Canada, Alaska and the northern portion of the PNW) will experience colder and wetter weather in coming years from this effect.

Other than attempting to drive home during a white-out Friday night, it wasn't much of an issue and the snow and cold really hasn't had any affect on my garden. The few shrubs weighted down by Friday's snowfall sprung back to shape with Saturday's melt and nothing looks damaged from cold. Heavier snowfall up north took out quite a few trees and branches here and there, but even at the nurseries I visit, it didn't get cold enough to do any serious damage (as long as they were smart enough to keep annuals inside :-)).

We had 5 inches of snow on Sat. Had to take the broom out to whack the snow off a 6 foot Abutilon suntense 'Violetta' that was drooping to the ground. It's leaves look good. Must like it's location on the north side of my cedar fence.
Heard on the radio to expect high fire danger this year because the grass is growing fast and a lot of trees fell over last winter.

It was very strange, picking daffodils in the snow yesterday morning. They seemed fine.

I seem to be lucky, in that my fruit trees are not yet blooming except for a few flowers on one branch of the cherry; so I am hopeful that I will have fruit later.

The only flowers that I have which seemed to really notice the cold were some of the primroses whose petals got frozen. The camellia, grape hyacinth, and daffs seem not to have noticed the weather particularly.

The cool damp weather seems to have been good for my new plants overall; the two roses and all the primroses seem to be fine as far as growth is concerned.

I haven't gotten any snow sticking to the ground. There has been some hail, but it doesn't seem to have done damage.

A friend mentioned her mother once recalling a time when it snowed near here in May. My mother came home from an out of town trip one year to snow on April 17th.

The climate think tank at the University of Washington predicts colder and darker springs combined with hotter and drier summers for this region, adding up to a significantly reduced Cascade snowpack.

"I hope this finally silences those global warming scamsters, but I doubt it. It has become a religion to many of them."

This weired weather pattern is exactly due to global warming..

There's really nothing weird about this weather pattern. It's happened in the past and it will happen again. It just seems weird when we go many years without experiencing it. I have reservations about attributing any unexpected weather event to global warming.

We had a little frost here in Poulsbo this morning but I don't think anything was damaged. All the tender plants I left out in Sequim were protected by an ominous looking cloud bank that has hovered over the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula the last few days, the result of orographic lift when cold air blowing out of the northeast hits the Olympic foothills. One could see heavy snow falling on the foothills (obscuring the mountains completely) and clear skies to the north at the same time. Driving conditions got a little dicey when I passed through Gardiner Saturday night and there is still snow on the ground in that area.

My plants all seem to be fine. I put my newly planted hanging baskets and fuchsia baskets in the greenhouse.

My lawn is so dang soggy it squishes when I walk on it. I wish I could avoid it but there is no other way to walk around the yard.

I had the same stuff -- rain, sleet, hail, sun, and COLD. My poor newly-planted purple-leaf honeysuckle sure looks sad. I try to cover it nightly, but sometimes I forget and pay for it the next day. Sigh. It's supposed to be hardy down to 15degrees but, probably not as a new transplant! I have my seedlings out in my little greenhouse and they seem to be doing OK without any additional heat. Looking forward to this coming weekend's moderating temps and a break from all this rain !!%&%*$*@@*#**

Wondering what this purple-leaved honeysuckle hardy to only 15F (= not hardy) is. If it's 'Serotina' (Late Dutch Honeysuckle) it is much hardier than that and shouldn't be having unusual problems with the weather.