January 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Hoy]

Sorry, can't show icicles. Too "warm" here  But I picked the first flowering crocuses in the garden (C. tommasinianus). It is too gloomy outside so I brought them inside but lots more are coming.

[Gabriela]

Sorry, can't show icicles. Too "warm" here  But I picked the first flowering crocuses in the garden (C. tommasinianus). It is too gloomy outside so I brought them inside but lots more are coming.

Already spring Trond? 

[Gabriela]

The predicted rain that combines with the frost, gives

Beautiful pictures Fred!
As beautiful they are, these ice accumulations can be devastating for shrubs and trees; I hope you don't have damage in the garden.

[Parsla]

I'm really enjoying Hoy's mossy landscapes and Fred's photographs of icicles, amongst others.
Terribly picturesque.
Thanks for sharing them,
Jacqui.

[Cfred72]

Beautiful pictures Fred!
As beautiful they are, these ice accumulations can be devastating for shrubs and trees; I hope you don't have damage in the garden.

I think that some stubble of Phyllostachys aureosulcata will not rise again. As for the rest, it should go. I just took the outside temperature. It is 0.4 °C. It's midnight. As we go back to positive, it should go.

[Hoy]

Already spring Trond? 

Gabriela, as we never have a proper winter here it is questionable whether we still have fall or the spring has begun. Any way we wont have summer until June !

[ian mcdonald]

There are two frogs in the greenhouse seeking shelter, including the yellow one. I have put some leaves in there so they have somewhere to hide.

[Matt T]

Always a sign that the year has turned, two of my favourites. N. romieuxii and Hammamelis mollis pallida. Only trouble is now the Hammamelis is getting too tall for me to catch the scent.

A beautiful potful of daffs, Shelagh!
Maybe you can pick a wee spring of the Hamaemelis to bring into the house and enjoy the scent? Wonderful shrubs for the dark days of winter.

[shelagh]

Matt so many came through they were pushing the soil up with them, Brian had to keep patting it down.

[ian mcdonald]

Hazel has catkins on now and a new leaf seen on a lizard orchid.

[Leena]

Gabriela, as we never have a proper winter here it is questionable whether we still have fall or the spring has begun. Any way we wont have summer until June !

You have spring for many months! How I wish it was like that here, but no. Ground has been frozen since November, in December the snow melted away for a while, but last week it was -24C one night, now around zero and next week below freezing again. Winter seems so long. At least there isn't very much snow, though it would be good for plants but not for me. I could see some snowdrops peaking from the ground after Christmas, but they will have to wait at least two or three months before they can begin to flower.
Couple of pictures from the garden yesterday.

[Cfred72]

Oh, Leena, it's cold all that ... -24 ° C?
I wish you courage. At the same time you can say that you have strong seasons at home. With us it has been years since the return of the rains of the month of October - November, one thinks that the time will be like that until March, at least ... There, it is very long ... 

[Leena]

Thanks Fred . It was cold all last week, mostly between -10 and -20C, but today it rains, and roads and paths are very slippery.
Waiting for seeds from seed exchange  is one good thing in January.

[Carolyn]

We start the seedex on Thursday, so not long to wait for your seeds, Leena!

[Cfred72]

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Waiting for seeds from seed exchange  is one good thing in January.

We start the seedex on Thursday, so not long to wait for your seeds, Leena!

Thanks Fred . It was cold all last week, mostly between -10 and -20C, but today it rains, and roads and paths are very slippery.
Waiting for seeds from seed exchange  is one good thing in January.

I am very impatient too. This will be the first time for me that I participate in a seed exchange.
All the pots are already ready in bins stacked in the garage. I made the mixture of soil, leafmould and gravel. They are ready to sow and then cover with gravel. There are only labels that are not made because I do not know if everything will arrive as requested.