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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: David Nicholson on April 22, 2014, 03:42:47 PM
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I noted we only had a Winter weather thread so here's a new one for the rest of this year.
I put shade paint on the greenhouse today. Regular readers know what to expect. ;D
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Indeed we do, David - it has been raining here today - now I know why.
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My garden is desperate for rain
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Not as bad as that here, Mark , but Ian has been watering troughs, which is quite unusual. It's the wind drying things out as much as the lack of "good" rain.
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I noted we only had a Winter weather thread so here's a new one for the rest of this year.
I put shade paint on the greenhouse today. Regular readers know what to expect. ;D
Might have known it ::) ;D Like Maggi said its rainy here now. Think we should ban you from putting winter shading on your greenhouse. Saying this I am glad that we got rain as the garden was really dry. Just hope we don't gets weeks of it now.
Angie :)
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I thought you'd been putting shade paint on our windows too, but it's only thick fog. Can't see more than 100 metres.
Ah, the joys of an English summer. ;)
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Hadn't even thought of it being summer time - I know the clocks went forward but for me, even if it is officially British Summer Time I never even THINK of it being summer until after the first week of July ::) ;D Not sure whether that is pessimism or realism ::)
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I knew it was summer because the rain earlier today was coming down vertically rather than horizontally! ::)
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Meteorologists will tell you that summer is the UK rainy season.
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I don't need a meteorologist to tell me that, just 50+ years of meteorological disappointment. :-\
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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If you bored from rain, please send me! Our summer is hot and dry. I will take over any excess rain ;D
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Happy St. George's Day to all you English folks - hope it's a better day for you in England than it is here - cold and dampish , been foggy - the dragon would have perished from pneumonia at this rate ::) What was that about summer?
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Cheers Maggi, the sun is shining and I'm just having a break from cutting back spring flowering shrubs. Unforthunately looked at the Erythronium thread and can't stop drooling ;D
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It's good news that you're getting sun for Saint George's Day - our share must have been diverted to you! Are there any cakes traditionally eaten today that I could cheer myself up with?
Just thinking - since this is also the 450th birthday of Shakespeare - I think ANY cake will do!! :D
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......................... - since this is also the 450th birthday of Shakespeare - I think ANY cake will do!! :D
His would have to be a Hell of a cake! Raining on and off most of the day here.
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Overcast but dry here, warmish, managed to find time to remove diseased bits from the hellebores - dratted fungus!
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The RHS gardens at Rosemoor (https://twitter.com/RHS_Rosemoor) have St George on their mind too - this chap is there for the summer, I think....
"this is our Dragon ready for our 'Journey's Into Middle-Earth' summer holidays "
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- is it just me or does he look like he's crash-landed in the sunshine?
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We had a lovely day on Monday 28th April - very warm and sunny - one could really believe that Spring was moving to early summer - since then it has been cold wet and overcast, if not downright foggy - yuck! The forecast is for some very nasty frosts in the next few days which may do a lot of damage - how nice then, to get these cheery photos of his blossoming spring flowers in Michigan from Rimmer de Vries to lift our spirits. Thanks Rimmer!
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I asked Rimmer what the tulip was - he says :
"The Tulip is 'Silver Standard' a hybrid ca 1760. If it is virused it survives quite well, I have had a patch of these for 10 years in my mud. "
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Frost in May. I know that we are liable to frost in almost any month of the year but we must have been struck by it on Thursday night. We first noticed that an Arisaema griffithii in a pot on the patio was wilted and couldn't understand why; compost moist and no beasties when we (unfortunately) unpotted it. Away from home all day Saturday but I have just had a look round the garden on Sunday morning and noticed two more griffithii in the ground in the same condition and tea-bagging of the rhodos. Also, an Acer dissectum in a position that gets morning sun is also frosted. Ah well, they will grow again nest year and it was a nice warm day after the overnight frost.
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"this is our Dragon ready for our 'Journey's Into Middle-Earth' summer holidays "
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- is it just me or does he look like he's crash-landed in the sunshine?
I had a journey to Middle-Earth. Weather was clear blue skies and warm. Hobbiton is well worth a visit. Curiously, in a wild part of the grassed area I spotted Leucojum aestivum in flower. Very early! I was treated to a complimentary ale and bought a piece of pork pie in the Green Dragon pub. The gardens are all well maintained and the vegetables are used in the food prepared. This tourist attraction owes its existence to the weather. New Line were contracted to destroy all set locations after filming of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but bad weather prevented them from getting to Hobbiton with any machinery, so the set remained. The locals became curious and asked to go and visit the set. That is when the sheep farmer who owned the land asked to make it into a tourist attraction. For "The Hobbit" the buildings were made of more permanent material, and the Green Dragon is a pub with bar, food and log fire. The Hobbit holes are still just doors with not much behind, but seeing smoke coming out of the chimneys makes it look real. Even the mill wheel turns. Bilbo's oak tree is an aluminium replica of the first tree, which was a real oak sawn down and reassembled and then some poor student asked to stick a gazillian fake leaves onto it. They even had a frog catcher to remove frogs which were making too much noise in the small pond, and a chap had to walk from each hobbit hole twice each day for weeks to hang and collect washing to ensure well worn paths in the grass!
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Visited a friend's garden today in the company of another two friends. We got round the garden dry but there was a heavy shower when we were having tea and cake. This rainbow appeared when we were about to leave for home.
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Roma thats lovely. I never have my camera with me and miss out on these things, saying this I do have my phone ::) :-X. Just wandering how my Cypripediums are we have just having thunder and hailstones . Oh well, what can you do.
Angie :)