Stand by your beds.

Spring still forecast to arrive Friday. Today was better with the sunshine but the wind was still chill and tonight, just watch the temperature plummet. Whats been giving us this cold, is high pressure and weather systems from the north and east.

But on Friday - a big low pressure comes in from the south west - temperatures well up - but much needed rain too. Its gonna be nice.

Warm enough during day here, at long last to get dirt under my finger nails getting back to the border I was working on. Wonderful.

 

Second SPRING day here in Essex, weather so good,even better than yesterday! Now we are really flying!!!

 

Looks like on the way.

 

Did you really have to say that, S? :( It's been lovely here today, too - even took the cat to the vet's wearing no jacket!! (me, that is, not Tom - he NEVER wears a jacket!)

 

Lovely day - rain yes (twas very much needed), but the temperature was gorgeous. Gardening is back on the agenda :D :D

 

Every thing out of the house into the greenhouse,
doors open,Oh Happy Days. Its Saturday and SPRING YIPPEE....

 

Weather variable today, but very mild.

Walked into g/h and shock horror!!!
Whitefly adults on my pelargoniums!

A man has to do, what a man has to do:
Tooled-up with the appropriate organic bug gun,
went back into g/h and fired straight from the
hip! :D :D

How dare they, after looking after them all
winter?

 

The magnolia in the front garden is just bustin to flower. Four years out of five that presages icy gales and brown flowers, but on the fifth year.... We've not had a good one for quite a while, so fingers crossed.

Nik

 

lovely couple of days weve had here in NE.gonna turn soil over at allotment this afternoon and hopefully get red onion in that ive got in greenhouse next week.
Nik,what does "nunc hic aut numquam" mean?

 

Keep your fingers very firmly crossed everyone. That there high pressure that we got rid of, is going to try come back next week - hopefully unsuccessfully. Check out the Met Office two week forecast. http://www.metoffice.com/weather/europe/uk/outlook/index.html

 

Wish it would stop raining. :D :D :D

 

Stand by your beds..Attention!!
This fellow is an old soldier..no doubt!

 

No way to treat an apple tree - no doubt it continues to leaf, flower and fruit - but I hate seeing them like that.

 

There are another ten in line Fran..!

 

I agree with Fran - I prefer a tree to be treated like a tree - espaliers are ugly, even if practical.