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The nice bit about global warming.
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Posted by Garden_Nerd UK Central (My Page) on Mon, Nov 14, 05 at 8:32
| I harvested a perfect courgette from my allotment 2 days ago. One of my day lilies is starting to produce it's new spring foliage. Despite frost being forecast last night, and a last minute panic with the bubble wrap, nothing looks scathed in the garden this morning, not even the 7" tree dahlia which should be the first to cop it. Mid-November and all of my tropical plants are still outside looking good. I haven't even bothered shutting the greenhouse door at night until this week.
It's not normal!!
Anyone else got stories about unseasonal events in their garden? |
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RE: The nice bit about global warming.
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| The cars outside were frozen over by midnight last night but the max/min only showed 3C. Too close to the house, I think, plus it isn't open to the sky. I still have Begonias, Nicotiana, Petunias, Million Bells, Roses, and Marigolds all in flower, and the Fuschias are more spectacular they have been all summer. |
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| I have a couple flowers still hanging on to the nicotianas although they look a bit tired. Nasturtiums are still fine, but have stopped flowering now - I don't know how long they normally last into the autumn before dying off as I've not bothered with them in the past. Some self-sown Antirrhinums are in flower and pelargoniums are too, though I just moved those into the greenhouse, just in case of frost along with my giant cape gooseberry triffids - greenhouse is packed now. Brachyscome still in flower but just a few of them now instead of smothered in blooms. My myrtle bush is confused as it's smothered in berries, as normal at this time but has some new flowers on it too. |
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| Nasturtiums are a good frost indicator as, in my experience, they go like cooked lettuce overnight when we get the first real frost. |
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| Another good indicator is the flowerheads on Fatsia japonica - they don't like air frost. They were OK today, but I'll not be surprised if they're dropping tomorrow with the frost forecast tonight Resin |
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| I see what you mean about the cooked lettuce - the naturtiums have just flopped after last night's minus temperatures. Fatsia flowers are holding up well though. |
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| The Fatsia flowers were wilted here this morning Resin |
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| Same here. I'm glad I read this, because I was a bit concerned! I have to say, though, that I'm enjoying the frosty weather. Some parts of the garden look like a Christmas card, whereas elsewhere it's pure autumn - the bonfire colours of the leaf litter, Rosa pimpinellifolia looking like it's been lit up from within, and a Cornus alba variegata sporting pink-edged leaves, reddish-brown twigs and blue-tinged white berries. I've lost a couple of tender exotics (including a lovely red banana, "Ensete maurelii") due to sheer complacency and procrastination, but it's a lesson well-learned, I think, for future years. On balance, I'd rather have proper, cold winter weather than mild, grey, dampness. Also, it's been great to see so many dead slugs! |
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| Hmmmph! I'm a bit less worried about global warming than I was this time last week. Ditto, Ornata, I was less prepared for frosts than I usually am at this time of year and have probably lost a few things, like my brugmansia, still budding & flowering out of doors. I was in Herefordshire for the weekend (not at home to place duvets on the babies and tend the paraffin stove!) and the frosts in the morning were incredible. |
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| I think my garden looks lovely when it's frosty - not good for chest infections though.... |
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| The primulas flowered in december, the creeping jenny didn't take over the garden. |
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