otorongo wrote:I'll take any weather over a frost, frosts kill plants

Flooding and severe gales also kill plants

Can'tseethepromisedauroraborealis

There might be a monitor lizard hiding in it.

kata wrote:Kew archives have been on fire.

Not really! Just a couple of old disused water towers

Yorkshire Kris wrote:It appears to be growing under a conifer so shade and lack of water might be the issue.

Shade, yes (as I already said ), but not water - it's highly drought tolerant

Apparently Ness Botanic Gardens up the road got some hefty damage from the storm, so they've had to close for at least today - I was going to go down there actually, but was stopped in my tracks by a information tab on their website saying they've closed due to storm damage. Annoying, as it is at t...

The Met office has suggested that this stormy weather is linked to very warm, wet weather in Indonesia caused by warmer than average sea temps, buckling the Jet stream over the Pacific, and has displaced the Jet stream around the globe from there on. If that is the case it might suggest a long term...

Polypodium vulgare, Polypodium interjectum, Polypodium cambricum.

Likely other Polypodium species too; the three above are all native to Britain.

It's the result of too many people p***ing in the wind . . .

draughty

Looks etiolated from too much shade. Give it full sun dawn to dusk, and the petioles will be shorter, stouter and stronger.

Light dusting here first thing this morning, but it soon thawed.

Met Office have issued a Yellow Snow Warning for the Pennines and Scottish mountains for this evening, with blizzard conditions.

:ahhh!: Viking Southeasterly severe gale force 9 expected later North Utsire Southeasterly severe gale force 9 expected later South Utsire Southeasterly severe gale force 9 expected later Forties Southeasterly severe gale force 9 imminent, veering southerly and increasing storm force 10 soon Cromart...

No problem, as long as you don't rip the rootball to shreds.

Spread it out as surface mulch.