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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: tim on March 24, 2006, 17:13:17
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And that's despite the fat flying boats of wood pigeons stomping through them daily!
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Very pretty, Tim. Don't know about going on though - mine have only just opened :).
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What a lovely drift tim :)
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Aha! She got my drift!
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Beautiful. My few are just opening.
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All outdoor bulbs are about three weeks behind this year, some people are worried because their daffs etc are not showing buds yet.I grow 160 varieties of daffs and Narc. but not a single flower yet.They will come and everything will catch up.
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Tim, they are pretty crocus. It is amazing the lateness this year isn't it? Normally our crocus are well over by now and daffodils well and truly out. I know by the fact it is my son's birthday tomorrow and I remember bringing him home from hospital the following day and the roads all being lined with daffodils. There is not one in sight and ours are usually quite early.
We have a plum tree in the front hedge that always flowers in February and no sign of it yet. But at least we still have it to look forward to, Spring will soon be here...hopefully!
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The blackthorn just outside my plot should be covered in bloom by now; there's not a sign. Daffs are sprouting in the lane, but not a flower to be seen. The snowdrops are still going strong when they should be at their last gasp. And I can see the Easter holiday is just going to be an orgy of mad planting trying to catch up.
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The blackthorn just outside my plot should be covered in bloom by now; there's not a sign. Daffs are sprouting in the lane, but not a flower to be seen. The snowdrops are still going strong when they should be at their last gasp. And I can see the Easter holiday is just going to be an orgy of mad planting trying to catch up.
my snowdrops have all gone now :'( my miniature daffs are in full flow but the big lads are still growing but the buds are getting bigger. my neighbours daffs in the front garden are in full bloom though :o
i haven't had enough sun to fully enjoy my crocuses but i'm going to be planting them in the front garden when they're spent so hopefully next year i'll have a lovely drift like yours tim ;D
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It's all a bit weird here - we have crocuses, snowdrops and daffs all in flower!
I love crocuses, especially when they open up and show their little noses in the sun. Saw a bumblebee canoodling with some of the flowers earlier today.. Spring is in the air!
(It hit 18 degrees today, according to our temperature thingy. *boggle*)
Melanie
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My bulbs are behind as well, though with the recent weather I'm not surprised! ::) They're probably debating whether it's safe to flower yet. It's the first time I've ever planted Tulips so I can't wait to see them bloom! ;D
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"the Easter holiday is just going to be an orgy of mad planting " -ahhhh bliss.
So far, crocus going over in exposed areas, just hanging on in the shelter under the hawthorn. The only daffs open are the iniatures, which is just as wellas it's blowing a hoolie today.
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I'm not very keen on the cultivated crocuses, they're to big and blowsy for my taste. I like the species though, but I only have a few of those, and they're not out yet.
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I have snowdrops, mini daffs, crocus and daffodils all in flower.
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Sounds like you've had better weather oop there in the North. Are you in the warm, wet, West of Scotland or the chilly, dry, East of Scotland? ??? Or maybe they didn't want to be Grawmented! ;D
Dave
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Warm West ? :o ::)
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I'm in the chilly east where when a grawmentor arrives you are inexplicably cold and sad and remember all the bad things....
But my garden gets lots of TLC
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WHO, ME? - flatten your crocuses??
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So who ate all the pies then?
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Now we know where you got your big bird from tim :o
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;D Tim,love that picture,he is a portly fellow!
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Amazing they can take off really.
Our resident wood pigeon (aka - lunch if I ever get my hands on it) monopolises the bird table something rotten - despite the fact that it is too fat to fit under the roof and get at the seed! Meanie >:(
We also have bumblebees in our garden getting very excited about the daffs that came out over the weekend - more than once I have heard a thump as one careers into the ground after completely missing the flower it was aiming at!!
After lunch they give up flying completely and just waddle round the garden and climb up the crocuses! ;D ;D ;D
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Sorry MrsKP,
Warm, wet, West should have read Warm(er), wet, West! I guess it's relative... ;)
Either that or I've been lucky with the temperatures whenever I've opped up there for a visit! ;D
My bulbs are still thinking about it. Any day now though...
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...whenever I've opped up there for a visit! ;D
Or popped up, even! :-[ ;D
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I have snowdrops, mini daffs, crocus and daffodils all in flower.
So do I and i'm in Warrington, Cheshire!! so its not too "bleak up North"
Kevb
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there have been bits of days that it actually has been less bitter this week. wet as normal. need to lay more paths in the plot at the weekend. the clay is like a skating rink. ;D
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Muscari and cyclamen added in now. Cor, it's almost like spring! ;D ;D
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i've got some unidentified greenery which i believe to be muscari. they've been up since the crocus but leaves only.
come rain or shine this weekend, i'm going to be out there LOTS.
;D
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shhhh... look for the blue flowers ;)
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none yet :'( i keep nonchalontly peeking hoping they'll not notice me panicking that they're not out yet.
;D
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I set bulbs in my wildflower meadow last November. I now have dozens of blooms, dafs, crocus, snowdrops (but very few), but I was puzzled by so many flattened crocus (and a few daffs). Is it really birds that do it, or should I blame hedgehogs? (or yet, strong winds?)
JeremyB
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Plum blossom now! Yikes ;D ;D ;D
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Flatten them? No - I won't - I'll just eat the lot!!