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Post by crowman on Jan 17, 2011 11:49:06 GMT -1
Just wanted to post a picture of new shoots in my garden as a reminder that Rigatona has walked amongst us once more, breathing life into our land...
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Post by Tegernacus on Jan 17, 2011 12:31:31 GMT -1
no nicer sight in the whole word... first shoots of green. tad early though I would have thought?
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Post by crowman on Jan 17, 2011 13:01:42 GMT -1
its been quite mild recently down here on the south coast... global warming anyone?
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Post by nellie on Jan 17, 2011 13:03:43 GMT -1
Ah, funny you should say that... i noticed today that the crocuses under the birch tree are sending up shoots, and one of my raspberry canes has its first fresh leaf starting to uncurl.
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Post by potia on Jan 17, 2011 13:30:13 GMT -1
I've even spotted the first shoots appearing here in Glasgow so it's not just down south.
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Post by Lee on Jan 17, 2011 15:59:03 GMT -1
the daffodils in my front garden have had shoots going up since November. really going strong now though.
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Post by Francis on Jan 17, 2011 17:47:31 GMT -1
its been quite mild recently down here on the south coast... global warming anyone? Ahhhh!!!!!!! No! The media enforced and policed "faith / religion" of global warming is not the answer to everything! Those bulbs have just experienced the coldest November for 30+ years and the coldest December since records began. They will not have felt obliged to appear early having read a script for their behaviour in the Guardian. They respond to their direct experience not some scalar global average temperature. Horticulturists and nurserymen have selected earlier and earlier appearing varieties/strains of snowdrops over the last fifty years to meet public desire. The characteristic that people most value in snow drops is their early appearance and the hope it brings. So that is what the 'Market' delivers. There are too many people, and bodies, out there who feel the ends justify the means when it comes to their belief in just how grave Global Warming may prove to be, who allow the public to 'witness' first hand evidence of global warming in their gardens - with modern early varieties of popular vernal flowers. They know full well that by far the largest component in the early appearance of some snow drops is plant breeding, but feel that if this apparent evidence convinces a few more people then that's all to the good. Of course at best it should only contribute to a belief in local warming let alone man-made global warming - but of course it serves the same purpose to conflate the two.
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Post by arth_frown on Jan 17, 2011 18:36:31 GMT -1
I've had Snowdrop flowering for the last week. Usually flower just after Xmas, a little late this year because of the cold weather.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 22:11:17 GMT -1
you all are lucky, we won't see a green thing pop out of the ground here until mid-late March
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