Posted by Jake on December 10, 2011, 8:04 am
Winter finally arrived last night! I don't know how cold it got as the
thermometer's decided to rise to and stick at 28 degrees C, but it was
enough to freeze the top quarter-inch of the bird bath and a very thin
layer on a water feature. Not enough to do anything to the pond
though.
But now quite a bright day and not overly cold.
Just need to write to Santa to ask for a new garden thermometer.
Noticed a couple of small groups of ladybirds hibernating in the
Christmas tree yesterday, clearly undisturbed by the process of
decorating it. Maybe it'll just have to stay there and decorated until
the spring!
Cheers, Jake
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Urgling (after the first frost) from
the dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.
Posted by Dave Hill on December 10, 2011, 8:36 am
> Winter finally arrived last night! I don't know how cold it got as the
> thermometer's decided to rise to and stick at 28 degrees C, but it was
> enough to freeze the top quarter-inch of the bird bath and a very thin
> layer on a water feature. Not enough to do anything to the pond
> though.
> But now quite a bright day and not overly cold.
> Just need to write to Santa to ask for a new garden thermometer.
> Noticed a couple of small groups of ladybirds hibernating in the
> Christmas tree yesterday, clearly undisturbed by the process of
> decorating it. Maybe it'll just have to stay there and decorated until
> the spring!
> Cheers, Jake
> =======================================
> Urgling (after the first frost) from
> the dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.
At the other end of Swansea Bay we had the temp down to 30f by my old
mercury thermometer, the grass was white this morning and out the
field there were a few shards of ice in the water filled footprints,
The foliage on the dahlias being grown for pot tubers has been caught
but some of the regrowth on some of the tree dahlias that's around 4
ft off the ground is untouched.
I have around 1000 pots to bring in and it's made difficult by the
ground being so wet I can't use the tractor and trailor, I have to box
them and then haul them in on a sack truck, about 75 at the time.
I am finding masses of slug eggs on the underside of the pots,
thousands of the things.
Anyone want some slug caviar?
The D. Imperialis are looking very battered from the gales so it will
be a few days before I know if they wiill cary on flowering for Xmas,
but I suspect the storms forecast for the start of next week will
decide their fate.
David
Posted by Emery Davis on December 10, 2011, 8:47 am
On 12/10/2011 02:04 PM, Jake wrote:
> Winter finally arrived last night! I don't know how cold it got as the
> thermometer's decided to rise to and stick at 28 degrees C, but it was
> enough to freeze the top quarter-inch of the bird bath and a very thin
> layer on a water feature. Not enough to do anything to the pond
> though.
>
> But now quite a bright day and not overly cold.
>
> Just need to write to Santa to ask for a new garden thermometer.
>
> Noticed a couple of small groups of ladybirds hibernating in the
> Christmas tree yesterday, clearly undisturbed by the process of
> decorating it. Maybe it'll just have to stay there and decorated until
> the spring!
>
First frost here in Basse-Normandie this morning. Amazing it's held off
this long... No ice though! :) The sub-tropical maples are mostly still
all in full leaf, rare for mid-December. After I finish a cuppa it's
time to do some final repotting and get the tender stuff safe under the
tunnel.
cheers, and good on you getting the tree up. We'll get ours next WE
hopefully.
-E
Posted by Sacha on December 10, 2011, 9:35 am
> On 12/10/2011 02:04 PM, Jake wrote:
>> Winter finally arrived last night! I don't know how cold it got as the
>> thermometer's decided to rise to and stick at 28 degrees C, but it was
>> enough to freeze the top quarter-inch of the bird bath and a very thin
>> layer on a water feature. Not enough to do anything to the pond
>> though.
>>
>> But now quite a bright day and not overly cold.
>>
>> Just need to write to Santa to ask for a new garden thermometer.
>>
>> Noticed a couple of small groups of ladybirds hibernating in the
>> Christmas tree yesterday, clearly undisturbed by the process of
>> decorating it. Maybe it'll just have to stay there and decorated until
>> the spring!
>>
>
> First frost here in Basse-Normandie this morning. Amazing it's held off
> this long... No ice though! :) The sub-tropical maples are mostly still
> all in full leaf, rare for mid-December. After I finish a cuppa it's
> time to do some final repotting and get the tender stuff safe under the
> tunnel.
>
> cheers, and good on you getting the tree up. We'll get ours next WE
> hopefully.
>
> -E
No frost here yet but at 5.30 this morning it was 3C here and -1C a few
miles up the road. We've had cloud cover for much of the day but
that's clearing now to a bright blue sky and sunshine so if it that
remains clear, could be first frost tonight. Re your tree, we've had a
couple of apple trees we couldn't sell because birds were nesting in
them and also a couple of Fuchsias!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Janet Tweedy on December 10, 2011, 12:17 pm
writes
>No frost here yet but at 5.30 this morning it was 3C here and -1C a few
Good Lord, what on earth are you doing up at that hour? I had only been
in bed for 2 or 3 hours at that time and certainly wasn't about to go
wandering up the road to check the frost :)
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk
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> thermometer's decided to rise to and stick at 28 degrees C, but it was
> enough to freeze the top quarter-inch of the bird bath and a very thin
> layer on a water feature. Not enough to do anything to the pond
> though.
> But now quite a bright day and not overly cold.
> Just need to write to Santa to ask for a new garden thermometer.
> Noticed a couple of small groups of ladybirds hibernating in the
> Christmas tree yesterday, clearly undisturbed by the process of
> decorating it. Maybe it'll just have to stay there and decorated until
> the spring!
> Cheers, Jake
> =======================================
> Urgling (after the first frost) from
> the dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.