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Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:29 pm
by cordyman
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:46 pm
by fern Rob
Always fun spring, so much horticulturally can be planned for, already got many plants on order.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:09 am
by Dave Brown
Was a sunny day I will grant you, but the coldest for over 3 weeks. A definite winter chill
Certainly no windows open in the truck today, and heater on.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:47 am
by Wilza
Yes, alot colder the last couple of days, had a sharp frost friday night! I made the mistake of putting a brugmansia out to get some sun, put a sack over it and it seems ok.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:28 am
by multim
Gees Dave, it was not cold around here. 10c sunny and calm....too warm for a coat. Many overwintered plants go out during the day and return inside for the night. Keep your ears to the forecast and realise that (around here) that a low of plus 2c means a low of minus point 5c.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:28 am
by kata
Was a very cold day here yesterday,
After shopping I went to look at my newly potted up plants. The black Agapanthus I bought late last year is moving, Pink Beauty Peony the same (new). My Tete-a - tetes are out, Daffs will follow shortly.
All potted up in good manure and compost. Standard Rose trees now in leaf.
Great pic shots as always Cordy!
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:41 pm
by otorongo
Wilza wrote:Yes, alot colder the last couple of days, had a sharp frost friday night! I made the mistake of putting a brugmansia out to get some sun
I didn't make the mistake of moving my brugs inside for the winter
Second winter in a row outside, so far so good.
Here is me celebrating the 1st of March, ~60th day of Spring:
Today, the 2nd of March, I can't even stand an hour in the garden and I'm wearing 5 thermal shirts and a fleece... The temps are similar to yesterday, but there is no sun
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:28 pm
by jungle jas
I remember the first day of spring 2 years ago, I posted on here I had a barbecue in my garden with a temperature of 28.4C.
What a difference a year or two makes.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:36 pm
by cordyman
Seems like a really mixed day across the UK yesterday, I guess if you got the sun it was warm, but like today with no sun its chilly
otorongo wrote:Wilza wrote:Yes, alot colder the last couple of days, had a sharp frost friday night! I made the mistake of putting a brugmansia out to get some sun
I didn't make the mistake of moving my brugs inside for the winter
Second winter in a row outside, so far so good.
Here is me celebrating the 1st of March, ~60th day of Spring:
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Today, the 2nd of March, I can't even stand an hour in the garden and I'm wearing 5 thermal shirts and a fleece... The temps are similar to yesterday, but there is no sun
LOL! topless sun bathing 1st March, howtobeatthecold.com
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:39 pm
by cordyman
jungle jas wrote:I remember the first day of spring 2 years ago, I posted on here I had a barbecue in my garden with a temperature of 28.4C.
What a difference a year or two makes.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh the March heatwave what a sauna that was
Didn't recall it being so early in March though, thought it was latter end?
edit: was this the heatwave >
http://metro.co.uk/2012/03/27/mini-marc ... 3c-365726/
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:40 pm
by Blairs
otorongo wrote:
I didn't make the mistake of moving my brugs inside for the winter
Second winter in a row outside, so far so good.
Here is me celebrating the 1st of March, ~60th day of Spring:
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Today, the 2nd of March, I can't even stand an hour in the garden and I'm wearing 5 thermal shirts and a fleece... The temps are similar to yesterday, but there is no sun
You should be a Russian. I worked in Russia a few years ago and in Petersburg locals sunbathe at the Neva banks. To give you an idea (
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2013/0 ... etersburg/). Both sexes strip down like it is a sunny beach and sunbathe on top of the ice. It can be quite sheltered by the walls and must be a heat trap. To give you an idea in 2010 it took till late April for the ice to melt but it quickly rocketed up to 30C+ and the yellow grass went as quick to a deep green with the long day light. It is on the same/slightly north latitude as the Shetlands.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:23 pm
by jungle jas
I can't say I recommend an early start to the year, as I remember it rained for the rest of the year.
We didnt have the girl with the surfboard either.
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:22 am
by fern Rob
seems to have cooled down now its spring
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:01 pm
by RogerBacardy
otorongo wrote:
Here is me celebrating the 1st of March, ~60th day of Spring:
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Thought you'd be browner with the way you go on!
This is me, early in the morning on Sat the 1st of March when it was 2.5C. I was doing a 5k run and approaching the finish line. Like yourself, Otrongo, I often go about dressed like it's summer (when it's not)!
Re: Pics from the official first day of Spring!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:46 am
by The Codfather
A parkrun ?