first airfrost: -1.2 C at January 28

forecasts are looking good

nice pics from the cold across the pond: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/p ... ep-freeze/

Tom2006 wrote:The prats on the weather forums are arguing between themselves which is a sure sign no worrying cold is coming.

That's the same way I look at the weather forecasts. When those guys are arguing, we'll probably have normal grey wet weather.

Last pic looks like somewhere in Africa.....

Alexander wrote: Spring is stll a long way from here.

Alexander

So are Berlin & Hamburg

No frost here in my garden till now....wet & windy like in autumn, wich starts to get boring. Everything is constantly soaked

In 2012 winter was mild, untill two weeks in feb threw zone 7a temps at us...Sit back and enjoy the ride...

Thanks Aaron !

The seedlings in the small pot in front of the big ones are from the same bag of seeds. They germinated, grew a few leaves and stopped. I don't have a clue why.....

These are mine, all grown from the same bag of seeds.

Same here. I've seed grown a few, having around five left. Two nice big 2ft plants now, one with a fairly fat trunk, the other with a slim trunk. They do not grow as fast as my big ones in the garden. Anyway, the other three are still seedlings with green leaves, but they don't show any growth at al...

dry

The cold air mass from the North Americas reached the Amazon area, causing a hailstorm in tropical Suriname yesterday. They say that something like that never happened before in recorded history? A bit dark video, but you can see people showing the hail in their hands http://www.youtube.com/watch?fe...

Thanks for editing Dave ! The first pic on the left you see on the page when you click the link is the Trachycarpus as a seedling, the picture on the right is the same plant 14 years later. The text below the pictures state also that the palms are located in central Belgium and never had any form of...

Mine looks like the one on your last picture. Maybe the lighting in the first pics make the flower look more dark?

Found this on the net: http://users.telenet.be/sf15419

The page is in dutch, scroll a bit down for a nice set of growth pics. First pic is taken in december 2001

Great vid, thanks for sharing!