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Posted by Goldilocks (U2296284) on Saturday, 29th October 2005
Just come back from our Welsh garden - 1000 feet up, and it was so strange. Loads of water lily flowers, dragon flies shooting over the pool, passiflora in full flower, some rhododendrons flowering again, liquidambers only starting to change colour. Hard to believe we are on the verge of the coldest winter for ............
Ah Goldilocks, Scotty must have beamed you through a wormhole which has put you back in time ... spring 2005 ...
But you're right the weather is extreme. Overhere yesterday we had temperatures of 22 centigrade, another record broken ...
my passiflora is flowering again. has been for a few weeks. Very few leaves ahve really been falling on the garden, but a few have been falling over the last days. Grass is still growing.
At the lottie, the weeds wont stop, but they never do, and the strawberries (early summer variaty) are flowering!
Couldn't agree more! Nearly November and I could be wearing shorts. I have a Azalea in full flower, another on the cusp, 4 foot flowering aquilegias and a group 2 clem in flower.
Should I be making plans to grow a Baobab (the traditional African village square tree/tree of life/upside down tree)?
My poppies have several buds, and my anemone coronaria have one; my cornus is flowering (for the first time!), & the kerria is still out. At the same time, the winter jasmine & winter flowering heathers are coming into flower. Everything is very confused.
Funny things over here too. I've got one pergola with two clematis montana 'rubens' One has already decided it't time to call it a day and is shrivelling up. The other one is green and fullof growth.
To be honest, the one that has packed up was a month earlier in flower this spring too. BUt still quite remarkable. Same plant, bought at the same time at the same nurserie.....
Buddleja also still producing new foliage as are some roses... which keep budding too...
How reliable do we think the 'coldest winter for yonks' forecast is?
, in reply to message 7.
Posted by clondalkingardener (U2328443) on Sunday, 30th October 2005
I still have clems and honeysuckle flowering and had a lone bee buzzing around my garden this week 22 degrees on Friday
How reliable do we think the 'coldest winter for yonks' forecast is?Â
Errr ...about the same accuracy as last year's "worst Winter in 40 years" forecast from Michael Fish when he set up his own weather consultancy business. And that one this year promising the hottest Summer on record. The Met Office are saying they are a little over 60% confident of a bad Winter, whilst others say that bad Winter's are preceeded by warm Octobers.
I make no prediction, as I will, as ever, be wrong!
I'm getting a tad concerned about the garden and weather at the moment. My ceanothus is in flower, I've cowslips and a rhododendron in flower, lots of my bulbs are showing lots of growth and they are really going to suffer with this predicted hard winter.
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