spring flowers

[thunder]

Originally Posted by mrs fish

Blackthorn does blossom from the end of Feb, it is out around here and is a beautiful sight

Do you definitely know that it isn't Cherry Plum?

henrya

[Jez]

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

Well done Jez! I'm getting really excited about the approach of Spring and the arrival of all the wildflowers. I bet you're looking forward to seeing how your mini-meadows look this Spring.

Pete I can't wait soon enough though it's worse than watching paint dry at the moment, nothing as yet and i keep going out then coming back in then going back out then coming back in, then going back out and coming back in lol (if anyone here has watched the movie Donny Darko)? i'm worse than Grandma Death!!! I'm contemplating which primrose will flower first, its like racing snails but once one comes to flower then i know the rest will follow quickly behind. Then i can start that new thread i planned to do in September, remember the last one My final Cut I think i'm going to title this one simply FINALLY lol.

Never been a footballer but would just like to say in football fan chant "COME ON YOU SPRING"

Argh here it goes

cheers Jez

[mrs fish]

Originally Posted by thunder

Do you definitely know that it isn't Cherry Plum?

henrya

I will take a pic to-day but I am sure it is Blackthorn



Blackthorn

The white flowers appear early in the year (from end February to April, depending on location

[witham]

We've had Snowdrops flowering gradually from the second week in January, have Crocus, Crocuses, Croci (whatever is the plural) out, Daffs bursting to burst, some leaves on the Hydrangas, Blueberry bushes and other shrubs I can't remember their names and while up the field yesterday noticed some Pussy Willow on our old Willow tree, nothing really showing on the Hawthorn and Blackthorn yet though but it does seem later most years here in Lincs.

[Seajay]

I saw my first freezing droplets of fog for the year falling yesterday - it reminded me of the beginnings of the big freeze in 1962/63.
(only joking). Things are earlier than usual this year so much so that the seasons seem to merge more into each other at the present but I can remember many times in my lifetime when this has occurred but nature has always redressed the balance in subsequent months and years.
I am just looking out the front window at a species rose with one flower (this particular one flowers early summer) and a pink in full bloom! I don't think it's anything to do with global warming or an early spring but last years continual deluge . I grow Cymbidium orchids (only a few now as the heating bill became astronomical) and this is the first time in 20 odd years I have not had a flower, purely through the lack of sun last year. However there will be other years.
Thats why I would never go and live abroad. We live on probably the most beautiful group of isles in the world and have such a varied climate which is why we get so many immigrants be they animal, vegetable or mineral Everything and everyone wants to come here!

So bring on sun, rain, snow, hail, tornado or heatwave I am quite happy in my beloved British Isles with all its beauty.

Happy days!

Colin

[tufftie]

Had a lovely walk from Eceat to Littlington today and saw lots of celendine and marsh marigolds