Lauri Think hard which other 'box' do you think you should be in - better stay here!
where are you?
Resin, I am in the living room....in Florida USA
A show of orchids in my dreams only!
Gald to see you taking a rest Dale, I bet you're having to stay out of all that heat. I'm in the living room too, after a walk out in the lovely warm sun it's turned yet again cold and cloudy, if the sun should reappear I might be out in the garden so you will know where to find me, lol.
lauri, you could try thinking outside the box, lol.
LOL but Janet it is cold when I go outside the box............sun quit shining here also.....but going to be brave and re-pot a few dozen crocosmia for sale.....So if I am not back by dinner I am froze outside at the potting bench...then send a hot toddy.....ROFLOL
Lauri
Oh stop it you guys :-)
cold in zone 8...should be here in zone 5,we still have some snow and I would gladly trade to just walk around my garden to see what has survived or is coming up...and yes I also take that hot toddy :-))
But but..we came from warmer climes, it's all a matter of comparison, lol, send you down to zone 2 Eglantyne and you might feel the same :~))
Ye OK, granted we have it good compared to some, but that doesn't stop us feeling the frustration, and i'll bet in zone 5 you don't get maximum temps of 54F (12C) in mid July! Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it
Is that what you're getting in Mid July ? why ?
We should get an average of 21C (70F) in summer, but we often get colder and occasionally warmer so that is the average. I don't know how it is the average because summer is seemingly forever cold, with the first two weeks in August about all you can rely on to be warm. Last year we had a terrible summer, often 14-16C (57-61F) maximum, but the year before was a record hot year so they were telling us it was going to be even hotter. How wrong they were, lol! Grrrr.
This is a small island with weather systems that can push either way, from south or from north, often from the west and occasionally east off the continent (cold in winter) but when the north wins to over the south it's freezing. It comes from the cold of Iceland. Apparently we have one of those high level air currents (if I could remember it's name!) which jostles above us so can cause bad weather if it pushes south.
Up around here (close to the east coast, northeast England), it is the North Sea that is the primary influence on the weather. The sea water is 6°C at its coldest in winter, rising to 13°C in late summer. So the average winter temperature is close to 6°C (dropping a bit as the land cools), and the average summer temperature is close to 13°C (rising a bit on sunny days).
In other words, very mild winters, and miserably cold summers.
Resin
We are 12 miles from the North Sea but it doesn't affect us like that Resin.........
Yep - you're south of Flamboro' Head. Up here, the North Sea is over 60m deep, and has onshore upwelling of cold, deep water*. South of Flamboro' Head, it is much shallower (less than 30m deep) and doesn't have any upwelling, so the water gets quite a bit warmer in summer, around 16 to 17°C.
*That's also what keeps the northern North Sea so fertile, supporting the big seabird colonies on the Farnes and the Scottish east coast. Almost no seabird colonies south of Flamboro'.
Resin
So now it makes sense to me knowing a little more about your location.
BTW wallaby1 did you ever receive my paket of varies seeds quite a few months ago ?
Resin
Yep we are south of flamboro head......... I didn't know the sea was shallower here than where you are. Actually our summers normally are 18 to 20, sometimes in the mid twenties.
We may not have the sea birds but we do have the seal colonies.............. have you been to see them?????
No Eglantyne, I didn't know you sent any, unless I have lost my marbles, lol! I don't recall you asking for my address either, am I losing it?? I searched my dmail just in case, I have no records there.
Good grief maybe I lost MY marbles which wouldn't be a surprise with everything we have gone thru the last 2 years !!!
We have moved also so things have been in uproar since we sold a large house withhin 3 days on the market....had to be out in 3 weeks....accumulations of 26 years in that home and over 40 years of marriage.
Here is a link what I have been up to.
Sorry ,here is the link and I will send you the second link as well.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/732119/
Well it's supposed to be hot here, but today that wind resembles the cold northerly I used to know! Of course it is going back into the 80's by Thursday. Eglantyne 3 days that's a record breaker - it's not so good for many around here, we have about 8 homes up for sale in this road and a couple are short sale foreclosures plus a runaway. No you haven't lost your marbles - you just misplaced them in the move! they will probably turn up again some time!
I also went to Flamboro Head some years back - it was cold wet and windy, but I am still glad I went, I also passed through Beverley and years later met a girl from Beverley in a hairdressers in Karachi, this world is shrinking!
Hi Elmer,
Quoting:
Yep we are south of flamboro head... I didn't know the sea was shallower here than where you are. Actually our summers normally are 18 to 20, sometimes in the mid twenties.
Yep, the land warms up a little more than the sea does in summer, and cools down a little more in the winter. For up here, the temperature range (late winter mean to late summer mean) in the sea is 7 degrees, but about 12 degrees on the coast, and 14 degrees a bit further inland. Of course on west winds, the sea doesn't have quite the same effect.
Quoting:
We may not have the sea birds but we do have the seal colonies... have you been to see them?????
Yep, been to Donna Nook once, mainly to see a rare bird but did see some seals while there. We've got an even bigger Grey Seal colony on the Farnes (about 6,000). They swim long distances to feed, a lot of the Farnes seals go all the way up to Shetland and Norway just on fishing trips, so your Donna Nook seals are well within range of the deeper northern North Sea for feeding. But they will also feed locally, I'd guess.
Resin
Thanks for the link Eglantyne, I enjoyed looking at your garden endeavours! You have done a wonderful job, I don't know how you fitted so many roses in. I love the Italianate style, your garden will compliment the house well. I found the next link at the bottom, thanks!
Now I will have to keep up with how it looks this year, rose lust all over again, lol, no good for this climate unless we are lucky to have a warm season.
I am so sorry I forgot to post the second link,a tel.call from our daughter interrupted me.
In case anybody else is interested,this is my story called ' This IS a Rosegarden after alot of Blood,sweat and tears'
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/749779/
Have at least 2 doz.ordered and coming,probably 1 doz.left to plant from last year,plus I will root some of my own....hopefully I will succeed :-)
what about you ?
Oh no don't tempt me, lol, I have half a mind to look at the site I got my last ones from but I have so many other plants waiting for garden space I would be mad (!!) to go there!
I also have pots and pots of lilium and gladiolus species I am growing from seed, plus the rest, lol. OK, I will take a look but a LOOK only! It's getting late here for planting roses, and I still have Variegata di Bologna in a pot but it's turn is coming soon to go in the ground.
http://www.countrygardenroses.co.uk/
It was 46 last night (8C), buty got up to 21C in the sun this afternoon....
Here are some our winter flowers...
Dale, That's pretty impressive garden bed for Florida.
I use generous amounts of amendments.....
Hi All, I live ten miles from Sheffield at the foot of the Pennines. We're miles from the sea in any direction, but have beautiful countryside with moorland, woods, hills and valleys just a few minutes walk away.
We've had the coldest winter for quite a few years with -10C for a few days in February, but it is looking more spring like now with all the bright spring flowers out and leaves appearing on the crab, hawthorne and quince trees. The weather this week has been mixed to say the least with snow, frost, sun, gales and fog - not really gardening weather!
My favourite plant is my rhubarb - Timperley Early. It grows so fast, probably two or three inches a day at this time of the year and I love the architectural shape of the leaves, the ribs underneath remind me of the arches holding up cathedral ceilings. It also tastes lovely. I'm also waiting for a couple of leaves to get large enough to use as moulds for bird baths as my friends have ordered some after seeing the one I made last year. I think there is a picture of the prototype on one of the threads.
Hi im Mike from Nelson New Zealand. My favourite plant would have to be the Sago Palm (which I have four of) - such an ancient plant!
If anyone would like to know more about New Zealand native plants I will do my best to help.
Cheers
Mike
Hi Mike in NZ right now I am sitting in my son's house in Windsor and there is some thunder outside - which means it's raining, so I know I am back in England, but only until Thursday!
Hi,
My name is Martin and I live in Rødovre (indeed difficult to pronounce) near Copenhagen, Denmark. I grow caudiciform "thick-rooted"/"Pot-bellied" plants - Pachypodium, Adenium and Cyphostemma among others.
Best regards,
Martin
Quoting:
Rødovre (indeed difficult to pronounce)
It isn't that difficult to pronounce! Just remember to keep the consonants nearly silent . . and you're half way to rødgrød med fløde . . .
Been through Rødovre on the S-tog many times ;-)
Resin, I guess you have been in Høje Taastrup as well, then?;-)
"Many times"? What could bring an Englishman to the Suburbs of Copenhagen? Just heading for the central station?
Best regards,
Martin
Davs Martin!
Used to have relatives in København (near Grundtvigs Kirke). Alas no more. Actually, it was mainly the main-line trains (to/from Esbjerg for the DFDS ferry) I was on going through Rødovre, not so often the S-tog though I did go out that way birding (e.g. to see Pungmejse at Porsemose).
Resin
Hi Martin. Have not seen you around before, nice to meet you.
Resin and I do write something in Danish from time to time, gets every body here very curious LOL
Never been in Rødovre
THought I better Say Hi officially. I'm Carol and now live in darkest Lincolnshire UK, but when I joined Daves we lived in Keller Texas. Confused the pants of everyone when I announced we were moving to New York!
This one is tiny, blink and you'd miss it, but its a great place to live, particularly if you like historic aircraft. The WWII memorial flight is located a couple of miles away and regularly overflies our garden.
PS to the above - Im not a native Texan - we moved there from Buckinghamshire in the UK. I'm actually a Tyke, born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, but I was a service brat and married a serviceman, so I've had a very mobile life!
Hi Okus
Nice to meet you as well :o))
Ups did not know there was a New York in the UK. Live and learn LOL
Must be nice to see the old aircraft flying around :o)
okus, Keller is twice the size of Dime Box, TX, but only half the size of Dale, TX.
Hello I´m Sylvia from Sweden, I can´t live without pelargoniums
Hejsan til hinsidan!;-) Hello Sylvia and welcome.
I don't have any Pelargoniums but some of them do have nice thickened stems. You see, I am more into caudex shape than flowers.;-)
@ Zest: I am lurking in the "Caudiciforms Forum" here on Dave's Garden. Nice to meet you, too.:-)
Best regards,
Martin
Potagere
Jun 20, 2008
Greetings from France, the eastern slopes of the Jura, above Geneva and the Rhone.
My must have plant (of the moment): Heuchera "Sparkling Burgundy"
My can't do without plant: Raspberries, any variety, can't ever have too many
My "hate the thing" plant: Lisseron/morning glory/common or field bindweed
Potagere
Hi Martin
Oh that´s why I have not seen you around did not know there was Caudiciforms Forum LOL
Hi Potagere :o))
Sigh your area must be wonderful :o)) sounds very romantic :o)
