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expat66 wrote:I wish Spring would show itself here.... it is -20 with wind chill today... even the cat won't go outside!.. the snow on the ground has actually frozen hard.. the only option could be to stay indoors and drink!... fancy a 'hot toddy' anyone?
Expat

Sensible creatures, cats!
I just cannot comprehend temperatures like that. We'd never get our house warm. Houses here are just not made for such conditions.

It's a lovely sunny morning here, predicted temp. of 24 degrees. The sunlight is starting to get that golden, Indian Summer look. Not like the blazing white glare of our hottest days. We've been lucky in Melbourne to have had one of the mildest summers ever - no more than a few days without a little (at times a lot, eh, Mark?) of refreshing rain. I've never seen our gardens last so green and lush through the whole summer.

No daffs out here in the South-West yet, but the forsythia is out, the pussy willow is showing its paws and there are blackcaps in the shrubbery and bumble bees feasting on the mahonia.

Annie wrote:

Antie Em wrote:My daughter went to Lidl at the weekend and bought seven fruit trees for a fiver each. The expert - my mom - has looked them over and given them all her seal of approval - Bargain !!

They planted them all today - in the lovely sunshine. The kids have named them all - bit like the Cluedo game.

So - off to Lidl you go if you want any bargain fruit trees. I did say to Lisa - do you have any idea how big they'll grow and she said that's OK - we'll have moved by then

We saw those trees and are tempted to buy a couple but was not sure if they were ok. so I will take your mom's word for it and get them tomorrow.

Annie

Sorry Annie - just been to Lisa's for my evening meal and she was telling me it was Aldi - not Lidl

dianel wrote:

expat66 wrote:I wish Spring would show itself here.... it is -20 with wind chill today... even the cat won't go outside!.. the snow on the ground has actually frozen hard.. the only option could be to stay indoors and drink!... fancy a 'hot toddy' anyone?
Expat

Sensible creatures, cats!
I just cannot comprehend temperatures like that. We'd never get our house warm. Houses here are just not made for such conditions.

It's a lovely sunny morning here, predicted temp. of 24 degrees. The sunlight is starting to get that golden, Indian Summer look. Not like the blazing white glare of our hottest days. We've been lucky in Melbourne to have had one of the mildest summers ever - no more than a few days without a little (at times a lot, eh, Mark?) of refreshing rain. I've never seen our gardens last so green and lush through the whole summer.

You may have experienced something close though, as wind chill isn't the real temperature, it's the wind that makes it feel colder, so a wind chill of -20 may have a much higher actual temperature, but it feels like -20 and no wind. There is also a associated factor to do with high temperatures and humidity, where it can feel hotter than it is because of high humidity.
Today it must be just over freezing as the snow is melting a little, but it's quite windy. Ther's no sun either, so it feels really cold, colder than some of the really cold days when there was a high pressure and sunshine with a temp of about -10.

Thought spring was here but had to scrape the ice off my car this morning

We went for a drive through the local villages on Wednesday and there were clumps of daffs out, but it's still frosty.

Most of the snow melted overnight, we were up to the heady temperature of +5 degrees C today!! Lovely sunshine today and the same forecast for tomorrow!
There are some white flowered bulbs coming up, can't remember what I planted there though - don't remember any snowdrops!!

Snow drops are in flower! And they're forecasting double figures for the weekend - just got a storm to get out the way first!!

Doffodills almost opening here!
Jo

grangers14 wrote:Doffodills almost opening here!
Jo

They'll be a while yet

Ours are breaking now, it's been a bit warmer of late.

The crocuses in the lawn have just started to flower, they seemed to have shot up in the few days since the snow went!

My hellebores are in flower!!!!
They haven't flowered for a couple of years, in protest at being moved about too much during the building of our house. So now they're being left in peace - at least for another couple of years!!

I brought a couple of clumps of hellebores from our old house (about 12 years ago) and they've just about survived in pots ever since, flowering each year, your post prompted me to go look them out, I have one in flower but they look very sorry for themselves, a repot is due this year. We have self sown stinking hellebores in the garden from previous owners, they pop up unexpectedly every couple of years.

I'm off work tomorrow, so weather permitting I might get out in the garden!
I hadn't cut back too much in the autumn as our garden is in a hollow and therefore colder than the surrounding area, so I left on all of last years (now dead) growth in the hope that it'll protect some of the more tender plants. It's now looking a bit messy, so I'll remove the worst of it, so the bulbs can start coming into their own. I noticed yesterday the sedums were showing new growth too!