March 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Hoy]

At least it lasted to take those great pictures Maggi - I had to put my sunglasses  Then I took them off for Trond's foggy, moist ones 

In a very weird turn of events, in same place where in the last years the snow was knee high at this time, yesterday the skunk cabbage was flowering surrounded by bees! (maybe wasps, I'm not good with ID)

Gabriela, bees I think.

Brown honey bee:

[Gabriela]

I cannot be sure what they were referring to on the radio but Trond may be right. Lysichiton usually behaves like that in warm regions.

[Gabriela]

That's a great image Trond! (I think we posted on the same time). There was a swarm in a nearby tree but couldn't take a good shot.

[Maggi Young]

Absolutely, Trond - it was - I  forgot to put that!  I will now.

[Carolyn]

This hellebore came from MacPlants - I love the soft yellow and it  is clumping well.

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I have the same hellebore from MacPlants. It seems to be sterile, mine never sets seed. Last year I sliced off a corner of the plant with an edging tool and the new plant is forming a nice clump too. I didn't dare dig up the whole plant in case I lost it.

[Maggi Young]

I don't remember ever seeing seed on mine either. It's a jolly good plant.

[arilnut]

A few pics so far this year.

John B

anemone hortensis
corydalis George Baker
Crocus Heuf. Snow Princess
Juno graeberiana

[arilnut]

Some more

John B

Juno maracandica
Juno aucheri
I. pumila
tulip kauf. Corona

[Robert]

Cyclamen percisum grown from seed via the SRGC Seed Exchange.

With all of the wind and rain we are experiencing, this is one of the few plants in bloom that has held up well. 

[Robert]

Trond,

I enjoyed the scenes from your locality. It looks wet! Even wetter than our farm now after all of the rain, all 250 mm this March.

[Matt T]

Romping away in a corner of the bulb frame is Verbascum arcturus, grown from seed collected from the Aradena Gorge, Crete.

The first flowers outside are Saxifraga 'Allendale' Comet and 'Tvuj Pisen' (= Your Song) and Primula 'Johanna'.

[Maggi Young]

Looks good, Matt - isn't it great to get some sun?

[Matt T]

It's warm, dry, still and simply glorious. Very glad to be reacquainted with the sun, as are the canine friends who have been basking! Makes me glad to go out to work - wandering the fields looking for birds in this weather will be much more enjoyable than in recent weeks. 

[ian mcdonald]

A neighbour has a swarm of wasps in his chimney stack. They were there last year and the warm weather has brought them out again. img 1010075

[Hoy]

That's a great image Trond! (I think we posted on the same time). There was a swarm in a nearby tree but couldn't take a good shot.

  Forgot to tell, but you probably noticed it - it is a fall picture: Flowering ivy (Hedera helix).

Trond,

I enjoyed the scenes from your locality. It looks wet! Even wetter than our farm now after all of the rain, all 250 mm this March.

Robert, it doesn't just look wet, it is! Fortunately the forecast says no rain for the next week