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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2011, 05:19:04 PM »
The first Rhododendron is out, Magnolia stellata buds are bursting open. This can mean only one thing. A hard frost in the middle of the coming week ::)
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #31 on: March 27, 2011, 05:57:49 PM »
I was a garden this week and was shown a white flowered Rhododendron that was smothered in flowers. Smothered yes but they had been heavily frosted and now brown.

Possible frosts for N Ireland and Scotland next week.

I'll add here my R. Lady Alice Fitzwilliams is dead. Since I got mine I have never seen it for sale again. Anyone know a source?
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2011, 10:11:46 PM »
Angie, I think your crocus planting is beautiful, and that's the thing - they don't LOOK as if they've been planted, just happen to be there naturally. I hope you can do more of your roadway, as they'll become a real amenity in years to come and perhaps part of the reason visitors will come to Aberdeen, to see Angie's crocuses. :)
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #33 on: March 28, 2011, 10:36:25 AM »
Thanks Lesley. I wished I had bought more when they were at a bargain price. I like a bargain. I will get more and finish the rest of the drive and hopefully next year it will look better.

Angie :)
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #34 on: April 01, 2011, 03:49:34 PM »
phew! it's 19c here righ now at 3.50pm
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #35 on: April 01, 2011, 04:26:23 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on April 01, 2011, 03:49:34 PM
phew! it's 19c here righ now at 3.50pm

What?  barely nine degrees here... and getting duller by the minute... rain likely, I reckon.  :(
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #36 on: April 01, 2011, 05:03:31 PM »
Drizzled most of the day here and just about making 11C.
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #37 on: April 01, 2011, 06:11:02 PM »
April Fool! Only joking ;D

It's 15c just now
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #38 on: April 01, 2011, 06:56:09 PM »
29 ºC maximum here in the early afternoon - and no April Fool's Joke  :o :o
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #39 on: April 01, 2011, 06:58:12 PM »
Mark, you're a horror! I walked right into that!  ;D

Chloe, I'd catch the next plane but 29 is a bit too hot for me! :-X
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #40 on: April 01, 2011, 06:59:20 PM »
I'm actually wondering if the forecast for tomorrow of 13C is an April Fool or not...  :) Still snow in the garden and the most days with lying snow in the lowlands this winter here since records began apparently..
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #41 on: April 01, 2011, 07:32:37 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on April 01, 2011, 06:11:02 PM
April Fool! Only joking ;D

It's 15c just now

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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #42 on: April 01, 2011, 07:56:20 PM »
The thermometer hit 9C today, the "warmest" so far this spring. Not much to boast of though but some of the spring plants are catching up.

Here Cardamine enneaphylla.


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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #43 on: April 01, 2011, 08:13:25 PM »
David and Maggi it was 19c this afternoon. I should have enjoyed it but I was in the shed making swift boxes all day ::)
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Re: Spring Weather 2011
« Reply #44 on: April 01, 2011, 08:23:29 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on April 01, 2011, 08:13:25 PM
David and Maggi it was 19c this afternoon. I should have enjoyed it but I was in the shed making swift boxes all day ::)

You weren't very swift then? :P
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