Patf Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" One of my favourite quotations. Not just in the garden, but in the fields and woods too - what signs of spring have you seen already? Today while walking the dogs on our favourite woodland path I saw that the frondy leaves of wood anemones have started to sprout. No flowers as yet. I've seen daisies and tiny blue flowers on sunny banks for a few weeks now. What have you seen? Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Haze Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Nice to know I'm not the only one who is getting excited about spring!!So far I have noticed that our forsythia has some flowers already out, our beautiful old flowering cherries (6 of them) have masses of tiny buds about to burst. We have had a lovely show of crocuses already and the other bulbs are in various stages of growth.The recent heavy frosts seem to have done a bit of damage to some bushes in the garden buts its amazing how they recover.Looking forward to the next few weeks as every day brings something new.EnjoyHazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcazar Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Crocuses (crocii??) in my garden, daffs everywhere in the northern UK.Violets, including some white ones, in our garden in France.Alcazar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Our Garden in South Wales is full of daffodils at the moment - crocuses have mostly been and gone.Our first daffodil flowered on 15th December !Hagar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 I forgot about daffodils - we have a few clumps in the orchard since about a month. It's interesting that things are coming into flower at around the same time in UK as in SW France. Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT17 Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Snowdrops, a few violets and primroses, japonica flowers, daffodils, catkins, crocuses, I have seen all of these where I live in the U.K. but the last few days they've been coated in snow.Looking forward to Spring............Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouf Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 In France, Normandy (27)...daffs about to bloom...buds on fruit trees...primroses in the garden peeping from behind hedges. Everlasting sweetpeas (surprised me!) have growth of about 4 inches.South of England...daffs in bloom and covered in snow (a fews days ago!). Snowdrops ended.I can confirm the mousing season has begun as the boss cat has been busy these last few weeks.Jon27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Spring, what is that???? Snow on the ground, -8 ish last night so woke up to no water , -10 predicted for tonight and in the last 5 weeks at least 4 have been below zero for nights and on most days also. The owls were calling weeks ago so they should be partnered up and nesting, the buzzards are out and about and the hens have not stopped laying all winter. Last winter was not this bad (it was actually quite mild) but very wet and it was not really spring like until May, this year I am hoping that it will all warm up and I can get into the veggy garden at least next month (ie any day after today). We are in the Lot not near the mountains at all.I know Spring is coming, I sleep with the shutters open on the East window and on days like this, the dawn and then the brilliant sunshine wakes me and lifts my spirits no end. The flowers may be asleep but the world is waking and I saw a lizard yesterday morning before it started snowing again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard-R Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Done in in coastal Aude we seem to be having spring days and Arctic nights. Sping plants do'nt no 'weather' (sic) it's sping or minwinter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Buds on hydrangea.Birds in pairs, including nuthatch, chaffinch, bullfinch, coal tit, great tit, blue tit, mistle thrush, jay, robin and dunnock.Major feeding frenzy on the fat balls and sunflower seeds while the snow drifts in once again.Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Does the first stack of white garden furniture at the Hypermarket count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Does the first stack of white garden furniture at the Hypermarket count?In France, yes. In England, it means they've just got over Christmas Just call me an ol' cynic.Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 Good point! This afternoon at Intermarche - snow blizzarding horizontally across the carpark, and a french couple came staggering out with a garden table and 4 chairs on " Promo". Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Quite right too - buy'em when you see 'em. Last year my procrastination meant that we missed the cheap chairs so this year grabbed on first sighting.Any ground level sign of spring is now under a layer of snow. Not much but enough to keep us in the hamlet - neighbour across the road is playing snowplough with his 50 yr old tractor and barquette (sp?) in the lane but I don't think he will do the 2.5 km up and down to the village.Adequate supplies of essentials - wood and red wine - for a bit of a siege but Meteo promises us more of the same. We should have been going to see friend in French play tonight, about 30 mins drive away under normal circs, but it will have to be at another time in another place later in the month.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirpy Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 How about easter eggs this week in casino-getting as bad as England -NEVER MIND CANT BE TOO LONG TO FIREWORKS DAY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now