Nice one Dave. Have been working here in the garden today, yes it was windy but at least it was dry and mildDave Brown wrote:All I can say is, if you are not one of the tiny % flooded, or living right on the coast, this has been an excellent winter for exotics, and may go some way to restoring the confidence lost in winter 2010/11.
Lots of stuff giving signs that they are waking up or are growing already. Things like Tetrapanax stayed green, and some brugmansia's have been outside al winter. Some parts of summer bedding give new flowers buds, Clematis armandii growth between 30-40 cm, passiflora growth. Olea, Lavandula, clerodendron shown little growth ot waking up buds. Even my Acer's and Albizia are waking up.