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02-04-2008, 06:21 PM
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... but then they go and spoil it all by forecasting sleet and snow for Sunday.  |
02-04-2008, 06:27 PM
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Oh Noooooo really?
I had lots of plans this weekend as i didnt get to do anything in the garden over that easter weekend....grrrrr
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02-04-2008, 06:30 PM
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If it snows ill be out and about sledging!!!! A bit late for snow
My next door neighbour has planted a plam tree in their garden cannot wait to see that covered with snow, will make an ace picture
Poirot
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02-04-2008, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Poirot  If it snows ill be out and about sledging!!!! A bit late for snow
My next door neighbour has planted a plam tree in their garden cannot wait to see that covered with snow, will make an ace picture
Poirot | My neighbour planted a palm last year and it died 
His garden is so neat and tidy can't have anything out of place 
I get the wildlife though. I have lots of natives.. |
02-04-2008, 06:47 PM
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Its a mirracle really as it was planted in summer 2006!! and is still going strong. It is even flowering at the moment!!!
I missed the snow on it last year, i really hope it snows so i can take a photo and be able to show two completely opposite climates together.
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02-04-2008, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Poirot Its a mirracle really as it was planted in summer 2006!! and is still going strong. It is even flowering at the moment!!!
I missed the snow on it last year, i really hope it snows so i can take a photo and be able to show two completely opposite climates together. |
Some are really hardy though. |
02-04-2008, 09:37 PM
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There is a palm and a yukka in my neighbours' garden which has been growing there for a long time and we had snow last year, I think some of these plants can be very hardy. |
03-04-2008, 08:21 AM
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It must be to survive the frosts we have had (some have been quite hard)
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03-04-2008, 10:07 AM
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Chop it down...tropical nonsense.
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04-04-2008, 06:11 AM
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First week in April last year absolutely hossed it down, then we had three weeks of sunshine so much so that it was scorching the grass. Will be interesting to see what we get this April!
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04-04-2008, 01:09 PM
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Just a note, im seeing lots of bluebells in bloom in my area now (including a white one in my garden) and cuckoo flower everywhere. as well as chiffchaff and blackcaps, and peacock butterlies.
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04-04-2008, 04:00 PM
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today the sliver birch buds have opened, sycamore and hawthorn, I ve seen one bluebell flower just opened and all the brambles have leaves openning. I heared a Coal Tit the other day and i had a Pied Wagtail in my garden
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04-04-2008, 08:19 PM
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Well I hate to say it but I squished my first lily beetle today - couldn't believe it when I saw it on my tub of lilies which are only about an inch high - normally I'm picking the beetles off when the plants are in bud
On a happier note I saw my first bluebells today - I went on a walk I did a week ago when I saw the saw the bluebell plants but no buds peeking through but today there were quite a few in bloom - what a difference a week makes - it put a smile on my face.  |
04-04-2008, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheryl Well I hate to say it but I squished my first lily beetle today - couldn't believe it when I saw it on my tub of lilies which are only about an inch high - normally I'm picking the beetles off when the plants are in bud
On a happier note I saw my first bluebells today - I went on a walk I did a week ago when I saw the saw the bluebell plants but no buds peeking through but today there were quite a few in bloom - what a difference a week makes - it put a smile on my face. | Whats a lily beetle? are they harmful to the plant or something?...and do you mean waterlillies?
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04-04-2008, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Whats a lily beetle? are they harmful to the plant or something?...and do you mean waterlillies? | Nasty red beetles. Decimated my lillies two years ago, so much so that I've given up on lillies now. They are partial to fritillaries too, but I aint giving up on the ol' snakesheads, they are just too darn nice. Fight the good fight I shall.
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05-04-2008, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisJB Nasty red beetles. Decimated my lillies two years ago, so much so that I've given up on lillies now. They are partial to fritillaries too, but I aint giving up on the ol' snakesheads, they are just too darn nice. Fight the good fight I shall.
Regards, Chris | I will be on the look out..I love my lilies..
Dan the lily beetles are an alien species that have no predators in this country. Apart from me and other lily growers.
They are bright red. There is a similar beetle that doesn't eat lilies.. |
05-04-2008, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh I will be on the look out..I love my lilies..
Dan the lily beetles are an alien species that have no predators in this country. Apart from me and other lily growers.
They are bright red. There is a similar beetle that doesn't eat lilies.. | Ahah ! introduced non native bad boys....KILL EM ALL then....you have my permission! 
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05-04-2008, 06:04 PM
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Lily Beetles are little swines, they really are. And they often squeak when you handle them. I believe they came here on imported blooms early in the 1900s.
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05-04-2008, 07:45 PM
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The grubs are really disgusting too, they cover themselve with their own excrement and devour plants from the leaf tips back to the stem YUK!!!
I only started getting them about three years ago but last year I was picking off about 20 a day.
I've no idea where they've come from but they've become a real problem. |
06-04-2008, 11:29 AM
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Early spring or late winter?
Deep snow here this morning...  
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06-04-2008, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2 Early spring or late winter?
Deep snow here this morning...
Dave P. | I like the pansy pic, i had an identical idea this morn and took a pic of my native primroses buried in snow!
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06-04-2008, 05:46 PM
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I got the picture!! Below is a picture of the snow on the palm tree 
It was fanastic the snow here it was about an inch too 2 inches deep probably more in some places
One of my favorite pictures was this one of the daffodills flattened by the snow 
ALL HAIL THE SNOW!!!
poirot
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06-04-2008, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Poirot I got the picture!! Below is a picture of the snow on the palm tree
It was fanastic the snow here it was about an inch too 2 inches deep probably more in some places
One of my favorite pictures was this one of the daffodills flattened by the snow
ALL HAIL THE SNOW!!!
poirot | I have got one of those its a Cordyline. Mine looked like that too. |
06-04-2008, 08:32 PM
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Nipped out to my local woods at Lesnes Abbey this afternoon, before it all melted, and got these shots of bluebells in the snow...   
Not something I've ever seen before.
Dave P.
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06-04-2008, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2 Nipped out to my local woods at Lesnes Abbey this afternoon, before it all melted, and got these shots of bluebells in the snow...
Dave P. | Great minds think alike, Dave. See my thread Bluebells in the snow.
Your photos are better than mine, though!
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