Weather

[Susan Band]

Mark you are 1 min better off this afternoon than yesterday, although you are still getting darker in the mornings. If you are interested in these things check out Maes Howe in Orkney http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/where on sunset on the winter solstice the light shines in through an entrance passage to the back wall of a neolithic tomb

[mark smyth]

thanks for the link.

Paul I have looked for the Dierama but cant see it either. I've just fiddled with the image on my computer and see nothing

[Paul T]

Mark,

Thanks for confirming it isn't just me!!  Unless there's the other sort of Dierama in there, the kind that is a small static display in an open boxy thing (if you know what I mean), but given this is a gardening list I opted for the plant alternative!! 

I think I'll just go outside and have a look at my own real-life flowering ones instead of busting my eyes trying to find the one in the picture again!! LOL

[Anthony Darby]

Perhaps it's not Dierama sp. at all, but one from a related genus Panorama sp.?

[Maggi Young]

Ho, Ho, Ho, Anthony!

I think you're right, though, that Paddy the Pixie is having us on!

[mark smyth]

very hot here today, not. Good lie in today and when I looked out at 10.30 it looked like snow outside. The temperature rose to 8.5 but it's falling fast again now

[Paul T]

We've had over an inch of rain at my place since 9am yesterday morning, and over 3 inches in the catchment areas for some of our water supply dams.  Most excellent!!

[mark smyth]

you've wanted rain for some time now.

Good-bye autumn hello winter

[David Shaw]

Isn't our weather amazing! Last Wednesday we went off to Marakech for a week. At home it was cold enough for me to decide against watering the bulb pots before we went (thank God), but not that bad. We got home at midnight on Thursday to freezing temperatures and thick hoar frost; the max/min thermometer indicated that it may have gone as low as -10C and neighbours advised that this cold spell started last weekend.

In daylight the bulb house looked very sad with lots of limp, floppy leaves and the few narcissus flowers lying on the pots. This lunch time the temperature has risen to a balmy +2C and the leaves are rising with it . The flowers on the narcissus are starting to stand up again and I can hope that most will survive. Probaly the only casualty will be a generous pot of Ferraria crispa which we got at Discussion w/e and was looking so promising before we went away - shame.

[Paul T]

Mark,

We've actually had various bits and pieces of rain over the last 6 weeks, so things haven't been quite as bad as they were.  We ended up getting another 20mm in the 2 hours after I posted as well.  Too heavy, but better than nothing. Our catchment dams to the west have had around 4 inches of rain in the last 48 hours, so hopefully that will add a bit to the dams.  Fingers crossed!!

David,

Good luck with the plants.  Most things you mention seem to usually recover from frosts here.  I know the daffs always look shocking after a heavy frost, but they pop back up fine once they're warm again.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great to hear you got such a nice Christmas present Paul !
Did the rain come wrapped as a gift ? 

[mark smyth]

today because of the turn of the seasons we have gained 5 seconds! By the 30th we will have gained a minute

[David Nicholson]

today because of the turn of the seasons we have gained 5 seconds! By the 30th we will have gained a minute

Don't waste 'em!

[Maggi Young]

No, don't waste any of those seconds.... Eat, Drink and Be Merry......... for tomorrow may bury you....as an old song goes     ( a song by Leon Rosselson, is the one I'm thinking of, it's called "Away from it all"))

[Maggi Young]

It seems that there is lots of "Christmassy " weather around europe..... we have had lovely photos from Vroni and Luit in  the Netherlands, showing them snugly wrapped up against the cold,( I think in front of the beautifully frost covered Ulmus that Luit showed us in the Forum) and today some frost rimed shots from the garden of Uli Lessnow in Germany.... Winter is not so pretty with us here in Aberdeen as yet! Not sure iif that is a good thing or not