It's still winter . . .
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Comments (11)We got one to two inches of the white stuff last night. It's 28 degrees and a cold, cold wind is blowing. Most of the roads are clear because for the previous few days before the front came through the temps were in the mid 60's. The ground and the roads still had enough residual heat to prevent icing. Only the overpasses and mountain roads are closed. It's cold, and a semi miserable day, but it don't bother me like it normally would. Two days ago we had 60 degree weather and two days hence we will have 60 degree weather. This round of cold does no psychic damage.... Mixed up a test batch of Jello shooters. It'll be a few hours before I can test them. One of the rigors of being a scientist.. Avoided the grocery store lines yesterday. That's one Pavloff's reponses I am immune to. Went by the Dollar store to pick up some sundries...See MoreStill horrible weather here
Comments (6)Yeah, demoralising. Too cold to start seeds (although I am carrying on as normal and will probably rue the day) and when I do get down the allotment (where most of my time is spent on my knees) it is much too cold to stand still and concentrate so I have been wafting around with my loppers, poking and snipping at stray branches, in a vaguely meaningful way. As for the horsebox - have ripped most of the cladding so we are basically standing around in the open air, attempting to build window linings. The wood may as well be a million miles away and it is hard to imagine that things are ever going to be any different. If I manage one task a day, I feel vindicated in going back into hibernation mode (yesterday, it was propping the sweet peas with the snipped salvia branches and popping some primrose offsets in new pots). I did dig out a Penny Lane rose and give it to an allotmenteer who is leaving (my friend, Keith, who I have gardened alongside for the last 10 years - seed sharer and fellow bindweed battler who converted me to potato leaved tomatoes and cavolo nero kale). My home garden, while tiny, is looking rather well - the high brick walls protect my plants and the new rose growth is a source of constant joy while the white narcissi are taking over where snowdrops left off. Hellebores, chaenomeles and evergreen ferns and epimediums and various spring ephemerals keep up with the greening of the earth while many perennials have lush (if short) growth, waiting to burst forth. Not as bleak as it could be, by a long way....and the greenhouse staging, inside and outside, is filled with seedlings (echinacea, glaucidium, foxgloves, epilobium, cenolophium, peucedanum, thalictrum, chaerophyllum, mimulus, aquilegias, delphiniums, geraniums, aconitum, leeks, and hopeful tomato seedlings still in the propagators). Another desperate year for butterflies (hence the array of larval food plants) - hoping the swallowtails cling on a bit longer (my wood and surrounding fen is one of the last UK sanctuaries for our swallowtails) Certainly, my day starts later and later (and having never been an early morning type, I am beginning to count a noon rising as almost good enough) Still got a couple of chunky sci-fi books to take me away from it all....See MoreMy Lenten Rose has flower buds!
Comments (3)I'm not sure which Hellebore I have but it has been blooming since early Dec. Well, it was until zero temps nipped the flowers back. And it made about 2 dozen babies that I am going to spread around next spring. Just wish it was fragrant. When I was in Italy in Jan ten years ago, I saw a large bed of Hellebores blooming--with nighttime temps around 20 F--and they were fragrant, subtly, not overpoweringly, but still wonderful for the middle of the winter. Can't find out what they were--creamy blooms....See MoreWhen Do You Know It's Spring?
Comments (31)Daffodils have always been the signal for spring to me, but they were blooming last week here ... h-m-m-m-m, and now its colder than ever this week. I certainly enjoyed the poetry! The flowering shrubs have been blooming on Quince Avenue for a couple of weeks in Memphis -- could they be flowering Quince? Just wondered if any one knew. They have small white blooms all over them and I thought someone might have planted flowering Quince on Quince Avenue. I have seen some Forsythia blooming in my area also, but mine are still dormant. A little Robin has been hiding in my evergreens and all the red berries are disappearing off my 3 hollies ... so cute! I didn't even know they were edible. All the seed displays are going up in the big stores and its hard to resist, but I will resist this year because last year we did it all too early, but it is exciting! Hey, there are some pretty garden themed screen savers free on guideposts' website. Katie...See Moreingrid_vc zone 10 San Diego County
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